All-Star Game #42

In 1967 Gene Ray Edds called his younger brother and proposed a father and son activity. Hugh David and his son, David, Jr. (age 4), were invited to join Gene Ray and his sons Rodney (age 8) and Marc (age 5) in watching the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Baseball, back then, was played in the afternoons. For most people that game was memorable for going 15 innings and stretching into prime time in the East. NBC television executives found that ratings grew dramatically as the game extended into the evening hours. From that game forward NBC began pushing for night games to boost ratings. What the Edds family remembers about that game was a trip to the Hospital Emergency Room for young Davey (Daddy Dave) after an accident. Still an annual father and son event 42 years later, this year Daddy Dave took his sons to Uncle Gene Ray’s house for the first time.