Season Nine of our baseball reminiscence program wrapped up on July 30 at Westminster Senior Living in Austin. All six sessions were well-attended, with 15-20 participants, caregivers, volunteers and guests present.
We enjoyed presentations on Baseball Bobbleheads (authored by Jerry), The Curveball (Jerry), The Evolution of the Glove (Monte & Linda), Baseball Lingo (Ira), The National Anthem and Baseball (Dan), an Eddie Gaedel update (Jim) … just to name a few. Recurring agenda items were Today in Baseball (Mike and Jim), and Stump the Experts (Bobby and Renee). We also had some fun hands-on activites including Baseball Bingo (Mike) and Beanbag Baseball (Bob and Diane).
A highlight of the July 30th session was “Let’s Do the Twist”. We had some serious twistin’ goin’ on, including Bob & Diane and Bobby & Renee (top) and John & Vicki. We all enjoyed the dancing and listening & singing to Chubby Checker.
Fellow SABR member and author Anne Keene joined us. She added some very interesting memories from her research on her current book – The Cloudbuster Nine.
In his “Stump the Experts” segment, Bobby once again stumped the SABR volunteers. The answer was “Matt Batts”, a San Antonio native who played 10 years in the majors from 1947-1956.
Mike was the emcee for Season Nine. Here he chats with Dave and Diana before one of our sessions.
Our leader Jim Kenton was on the “DL” for Season Nine, but we expect him to complete his rehab assignments and rejoin the BasebALZ team for Season Ten.
Speaking of Season Ten – dates for the six sessions are September 10,24; October 8, 22 and November 5 and 19. We expect to return to Westminster and we extend our most sincere thanks to them for hosting BasebALZ in 2018. Many thanks, as always, to Alzheimer’s Texas for sponsoring our program.
We are also taking August “off” at the Kerrville Veterans Administration Hospital. Volunteers Dan & Ann and Bob & Diane will return to Kerrville in September to resume the monthly program there.
The fun continues … “See you in September”.
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