Seventeen participants, caregivers, and volunteers were on hand at Westminster Senior Living in Austin for “opening day” of BasebALZ Season 10. This marks three-and-one-half years that the Hornsby SABR Chapter (Central/South Texas), in conjunction with Alzheimer’s Texas, has been delivering our popular baseball reminiscence program.
Emcee Mike (l) opened the session with a discussion of what everyone did “on summer vacation” … or at least in the six weeks since we’d last met. The group was well-traveled, including visits to Yosemite, Mt. Rushmore, Las Vegas, Houston and Arlington, TX. Our leader Jim (m) was activated from the DL and back with us; he and Bob (r) look on.
We had presentations on “Today in History”, “Mayhem at the Ballpark”, and “Who’s on First?”. The group got a lot of collective laughs from Abbott and Costello’s classic baseball comedy routine.
In his regular segment, Bobby delivered his pitch to “Stump the Experts”. After stumping the group for most of Season Nine, he eased up on the SABR “experts” this time around. We were able to guess that the answer was Hall of Fame Yankees catcher Bill Dickey.
The fun will continue in two weeks on Monday September 24, and every two weeks thereafter through November.
Our program at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Kerrville, Texas will also resume on Friday September 14. Volunteers Bob and Dan, along with their wives, are delivering the monthly BasebALZ program there.
More information about the BasebALZ reminiscence program is available here.
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