Saturday, September 25, 2010
Why wasn’t the applied ball hemmed before baste stitching it to the pennant, thus allowing it to fray? I think I may know the answer, if what I was told by the person who’d seen one other example is fact.
Two local women (Cincinnati) sat up a stand outside the park, making the pennants. One would cut and sew: The other would stamp and paint. Obviously, unless they had inside information or were psychic seamstresses, they could have made this particular version only at the end of the last inning of the final game. Perhaps, and this is purely conjecture on my part . . . perhaps, if they were there during prior games, the pennants they made by hand and sold said simply “World Series” rather than “World Champions.”
