Speaking of weather - I remember as a kid playing baseball for the KRD - Kenner

Recreational Department - specifically Westgate Playground. Our baseball uniforms were some manner of wool, hung on us like potato sacks, always started play by 8am, the dew was so thick the baseball would throw a fishtail as it rolled your way. Once you caught up to it and threw it, the darn thing was sopping wet resulting in a mind/direction of its own.

There was but one faucet to drink from - assume ice hadn't been invented - and how the catcher didn't pass out from a heat stroke is beyond me.

As an aside, wasn't worth a rip but loved every second of it

Play Ball.....Let's go Tigers