“Papa’s Diary Project” is a fascinating look back in history as its subtitle suggests: “The 1924 diary of Harry Scheurman, transcribed and annotated by his grandson, Matt Unger.” Today’s entry, “Monday June 16″ includes a mention of Scheurman having gone to a game at Ebbets Field that day. Matt points out:
Not a bad day to be at Ebbet’s Field, where the Robins (a.k.a. Dodgers) beat the Cincinnati Reds, 5-2.
There are a couple of cool old photos of the diary page and a crowd outside Ebbets. Unger also includes a link to the archived NY Times story of the game: “ROBINS BEAT RIXEY AND THE REDS, 5-2; Brooklyn Batters Rout Western Invaders With Four-Run Rally in the Eighth.”.
The 1924 Brooklyn Robins came up short that season, second behind the Giants for the NL pennant by 1.5 games.
There are a few other entries that mention the Robins/Dodgers, starting with a spring exhibition versus the Yankees on “Saturday Apr 12″, which Unger has researched to get details on the teams, the game, and who played that game — including a certain Yankee home-run king in right field. Scheurman also went to the next day’s on “Sunday Apr 13″. Finally, he might have been at either Giants-Robins or Red Sox-Yankees on “Saturday Apr 26″.
While the entries themselves are rather short (this is a quotidian diary, after all), Matt Unger’s research brings them into focus and places them in time and space.
One wonders if a future generation will put their grandparents’ blog posts into proper historical perspective.
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