August 25, 2011
"It won’t matter if those games are played in Fenway Park, at Yankee Stadium, on Boston Common, or at the New York Botanical Garden. The team that plays better - excuse me, pitches better - will win. It’s really that simple."

Say hello to another really great Garden non sequiter! This time we find ourselves randomly inserted into an oped about the September doldrums baseball fans on the East Coast are facing down as both the Red Sox and the Yankees seem to have a lock on playoff berths (we know who we’re cheering for! Go Bronx Bombers!)

Previously the Garden has found one of our owls in an article about the New York Times crossword puzzle, a financial piece using the Garden’s Alhambra exhibition as a metaphor for global equity markets, and a reference to the track distance the trains in the Holiday Train Show travel. Keep them coming! We love them!

March 31, 2011
From the Library: Play Ball!

It is Major League Baseball’s Opening Day, but did you know that The New York Botanical Garden once fielded its own baseball team? Here is a photo of the 1938 squad - David the bat boy included.

From The New York Botanical Garden’s archival photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.

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