“The old adage that ‘you never know what you’ll see when you come to the ballpark’ is absolutely true,” a baseball writer said in 2015. It’s not known how old this adage is, or who coined it. “You never know what you’re going to see when you come to the ballpark” was cited in 2009. “You never know what you’re going to see when you attend a baseball game” was cited in 2012.
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Surprise visitor
Zambrano visits the press box at Wrigley Field
July 8, 2009, 1:04 PM
By: Nick Friedell
Carlos Zambrano proved once again Wednesday morning that you never know what you’re going to see when you come to the ballpark.
What Fink Thinks
08.17.12
THE KING IS PERFECT
by mattfinkel42
The first season in MLB history to see 3 perfect games is 2012. You never know what you’re going to see when you attend a baseball game.
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Sam Mellinger
@mellinger
They say you never know what you’ll see when you come to the ballpark, but I was certain someone at the K would call Beltran a sellout.
9:14 PM - 6 Jun 2014
Minor League Ball
College Baseball Weekend Roundup (March 27-29)
By Chris Slade on Mar 30, 2015, 7:47p
You never know what you might see when you attend a baseball game. Baseball always seems to find a new and interesting ways to surprise you just when you think you have seen it all.
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joyce
@joycefromli
Ya never know what you’re going to see when you come to the ball park, but YAY US!!!!!! #lgm WOOOHOOOO. #mets
9:24 PM - 14 Apr 2015
Columbia Spectator (Columbia University)
YOUNG: If you think baseball is boring you are missing out
By RYAN YOUNG Spectator Senior Staff Writer
April 16, 2015, 6:57pm
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The greatest thing about baseball is that no two games are ever alike. The old adage that “you never know what you’ll see when you come to the ballpark” is absolutely true. There are so many moving parts, intricacies, and potential outcomes, that all 2,430 games in a season are unique—as every game is at every level.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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