Memorial day and a trip to the ball game

If you ever want your Americana laid on extra thick, try to catch a baseball game on America’s annual Memorial Day, the last Monday in May and the starting gun of summer.

With winter a distant memory, the US spends much of Sunday and especially Monday remembering their war dead (if they’re not barbecuing by a beach) at a range of different ceremonies. Of course baseball has more reason than most sports to pay tribute to history and will always do it with extra mustard.

The pomp and ceremony so particular to what was formerly America’s game is turned up a notch on a day like this; the red, white and blue gleams a little more and the country rock bellows through the ballpark as families and military personnel mingle around the concession stands and gift shops.