It’s hard to recognize that you’re living in an era until it’s over.
Nobody knew it was the Golden Age of Baseball in the 50’s at the time. The Roaring 20’s were only Roaring in retrospect. I guess the Great Depression kind of got its name pretty quickly. That one makes sense.
On Monday night though, an era ended in Cleveland that almost passed in a whisper. When he signed with Pittsburgh, Lonnie Chisenhall ended an era of Almost Was in Cleveland.
There was a time, a couple years in fact, where Chisenhall was supposed to be the face of the franchise, the engine that made the offense go.