Page 6 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, May 9, 2025 ~ Malden Musings ~ The Baseball Season According to John O’Brien By Peter Levine 425r Broadway, Saugus Located adjacent to Kohls Plaza Route 1 South in Saugus at the intersection of Walnut Street We are on MBTA Bus Route 429 781-231-1111 We are a Skating Rink with Bowling Alleys, Arcade and two TV’s where the ball games are always on! PUBLIC SKATING SCHEDULE 12-7 p.m. Sunday Monday Tuesday $10.00 Price includes Roller Skates Rollerblades/inline skates $3.00 additional cost Private Parties 7:30-11 p.m. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday $11.00 Price includes Roller Skates 18+ Adults Only After 7 PM - ID Required Private Parties Private Parties 4-8 p.m. $10.00 8:30-11 p.m. $11. 18+ Adults Only After 7 PM - ID Required 12-9 p.m. $10.00 Everyone must pay admission after 6 p.m. Sorry No Checks - ATM on site Roller skate rentals included in all prices Inline Skate Rentals $3.00 additional BIRTHDAY & PRIVATE PARTIES AVAILABLE www.roller-world.com Like us on Facebook advocate newspaper Facebook.com/ Advocate.news.ma P lay ball! With another (potentially) disappointing Red Sox season in process, time to revisit John O’Brien’s famous take on the national pastime. More musings from the inimitable pen of the late, great John O’Brien whose wit and wisdom endeared him to generations of students at Malden High School, Maldonians and peers at M.H.S. These baseball-related Musings from April 18, 1974, are truly priceless. I usually don’t attempt to explain John’s work, but I am making an exception this time, just in case you weren’t around in ’74: • “I’d trade the nylons of Greta Garbo for one good sock by Bernie Carbo.” My note: Garbo was a Swedish American movie star of the 1930s and 1940s regarded as one of the greatest actresses to ever grace the silver screen. In 1974, Carbo was one year away from immortality as a member in good standing of the “Buffalo Heads” – hitting his most memorable home run in the 1975 World Series for the Sox, a three-run pinch-hit homer in the bottom of the eighth inning of Game 6 off the Reds’ Rawly Eastwick, tying the score at 6. The contest would end in the 12th when (Carlton) Fisk famously clouted a walk-off homer. My childhood bestie, the late Jimmy Damiano, always said that Carbo’s dinger was more important in Sox history than Fisk’s. As always, Jimmy was right.
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