Baseball season is coming to a close very soon. I've been a baseball fan all my life. So one spring many years ago when one of my brothers suggested we have a baseball movie day with baseball food, it seemed like a perfect idea.
We selected a few favorite baseball movies -- I think they were Field of Dreams, Major League, and A League of Their Own -- for this very first spring training baseball movie-thon. And then we set about trying to decide on appropriate baseball food. We chose popcorn, of course, and peanuts, since these have been staples at ballparks for decades. We also had to choose hot dogs, and with them a variety of toppings. We decided on nachos as well. We thought about cotton candy, but we didn't know where we could get that easily. We found a grocer that carried old-fashioned chocolate malts. And then we got a big bag of cheese puffs since I remember having those at Dodger Stadium and the Big A in Anaheim in southern California as a kid. We had some other foods as well, but I can't recall what they were.
Anyway, it turned out to be a great fun thing to do. Eating foods that one would find at the ballpark while watching these great baseball movies was an excellent way to spend a day in the spring.
Later we did a few other movie and food days with some other movie themes besides baseball, but I can't recall the details of those. For a few years we were able to do the baseball day every spring.
Food is a great celebration of life itself as well as a celebration of some of our favorite things we do in our lives.
Anyone have any ideas on other great movie and food days? Please leave your comments.
Have a great week!
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