Play ball

Thought about an April Fools post but decided against the cliché. Today also happens to be Opening Day for baseball season, though my Rangers screwed up the first real game last night. So I hunted around YouTube and found this cute Match Game video on the relationship of baseball to a honeymoon.

Sadly, the winsome contestant could only come up with a pedestrian answer. The audience groaned but all was not lost. Richard Dawson deadpanned a funnier reply, then exchanged further quips with Gene Rayburn.

As I recall, baseball Hall of Famer Don Sutton showed up on the Match Game panel for a few episodes. Lots of Dodgers turned up on various California-based game shows. In much later life Sutton would talk (a lot) on Atlanta Braves broadcasts. He's always been a controversial pick for Cooperstown, but he's never been tongue-tied. Which certainly came in handy on Match Game.