What a glorious time of the year.
Football, baseball, politics -- my personal trinity -- are all in swing as the trees relinquish their green mantle for the multi-colored splendor of autumn.
From my earliest memory, it was Villanova University football that I read about in the Philadelphia Record lying on the living room floor in 1938. This paragraphic love has endured to this day.
Just as enduring, my baseball interest, first in Philadelphia A's under manager Connie Mack, who later moved them to Kansas City and then Oakland, as well as the Philadelphia Phillies.
And then the Philadelphia Eagles, the Super Bowl champions. How can you improve on perfection?
As for election politics, my first brush with this fall event came in Rochester, New York in 1960 when I was a reporter for The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. I briefly interviewed Vice President Richard Nixon outside the Rochester War Memorial alongside the Genesee River. I asked Nixon if he would carry Monroe County, where Rochester is located, for President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"Yes, we would," Nixon replied. He did.
Joseph Albright's column appears every week in The Jersey Journal