My efforts to find a good image of the uniform the Represa players wore has been a disappointment thus far, though I'm probably not totally done. I did find a cap saying, "My Son Is the Inmate of the Month at Folsom State Prison," but I'm not sure it's authentic.
Paul, I enjoyed this immensely on many levels. I loved the idea of MLB players going into Folsom to play ball, Bill Ryan as one of the good guys in the prison system, the idea that a prisoner would have access to enough socks to knot together a rope, and, as usual, your entertaining footnotes, today notably “celery en branche!”
Thanks Meg! I don't know if it's relevant to the the dish in question, but I did learn that in the late 1800s celery was apparently very hard to grow at a mass scale in the United States and it was as much of a delicacy as caviar. So what seemed to me to be a very boring dish to brag about might have been something special. We are learning every day around here. Also, I too wondered how many socks we are talking about here but I spent so much time exploring celery that I had to move on...
If you find a good one we might just feature it here. Everybody loves recipe Substacks, and we're always looking to broaden our audience. The celery crowd would be huge for us.
Paul, are you sure the Mississippi Bar wasn’t a group of attorneys?
It would be a wrinkle if Mead was captured by a bunch of people in business attire with Southern accents, in a tavern that was located on a sandbar.
Get Ebbets Field Flannels on the Represa All Stars cap STAT!
My efforts to find a good image of the uniform the Represa players wore has been a disappointment thus far, though I'm probably not totally done. I did find a cap saying, "My Son Is the Inmate of the Month at Folsom State Prison," but I'm not sure it's authentic.
Paul, I enjoyed this immensely on many levels. I loved the idea of MLB players going into Folsom to play ball, Bill Ryan as one of the good guys in the prison system, the idea that a prisoner would have access to enough socks to knot together a rope, and, as usual, your entertaining footnotes, today notably “celery en branche!”
Thanks Meg! I don't know if it's relevant to the the dish in question, but I did learn that in the late 1800s celery was apparently very hard to grow at a mass scale in the United States and it was as much of a delicacy as caviar. So what seemed to me to be a very boring dish to brag about might have been something special. We are learning every day around here. Also, I too wondered how many socks we are talking about here but I spent so much time exploring celery that I had to move on...
I love celery; at least until I eat it. Then I’m in the bathroom with dental floss, toothbrush & a water pic.
Now I’m not only on the search for yellow baseballs I’m on the hunt for celery recipes.
Thanx Paul!
If you find a good one we might just feature it here. Everybody loves recipe Substacks, and we're always looking to broaden our audience. The celery crowd would be huge for us.