Pondering Much (But) “Time Goes By”

Perhaps appropriate, the ’68 into ’69 saga and part of it, Mickey Mantle’s last game.

The game was in Boston, the penultimate one in a fourth straight non pennant season for a team, the Yankees, that had won an incredible 14 pennants in 16 seasons.

Mantle popped out to Rico Petrocelli in his final at bat. He did not play in the season finale, the last series being at Boston’s Fenway Park vs the Red Sox.

During spring training/1969 he announced his retirement after an incredible playing career.

Heroes, flaws, change– all to be pondered, with perhaps a manifestation of better as time goes (even flies) by.

Dooley Wilson, pictured above, as “Sam” in the seminal film, “Casablanca,” so memorably and beautifully sang “As Time Goes By.”

The song was written by Herman Hupfeld in 1931, a dozen years before Mr. Wilson sang it in “Casablanca.”