The punkin' chunkers favor blue jeans and
fans booed president and governor
Thirty-one punkin' chunkers,
warmed by a homemade wood
stove large enough to burn whole
trees, gathered in a pole shed at
the edge of the Great Marsh out-
side Lewes.
With hair, beards, and mous-
taches going in all directions, they
looked as wild as the gusty spring
night drawing power outside from
the nearby Delawar6 Bay.
It was a perfect opportunity for
a fashion check.
Of the 31 men gathered, 20
wore blue jeans, America's
favorite pants. Three wore black
jeans - always a favorite among
artists. The others wore a variety
of green and khaki chinos. The
meaning of all this? Not much.
Just that blue jeans continue to be
very popular, especially among
the creative and inventive set.
No surprise, but there was a
strong contrast inside Camden
Yards the next afternoon when the
Orioles and Kansas City Royais
gathered to open the 1996 base-
bail season.
President Bill Clinton wasn't
wearing blue jeans. But he was
easy to pick out in the black and
orange Orioles jacket given him
by team owner Peter Angeles for
the occasion. Sharpshooters
paced nervously at four or five
locations high up on the stadium
perimeter above the top seats.
They certainly must have ques-
tioned putting a highly visible
orange jacket on the man they
spend all their hours protecting.
Clinton stood near the mound
and joined thousands more
applauding as members of the
Orioles, their names broadcast in
giant letters on the Sony Jum-
botron screen, ran in from center
field on a wide red carpet.
When Cal Ripken was
announced and came trotting in,
not a person was still sitting.
Plenty gray at the temples, Ripken
remains one of the game's greats.
Still, although he makes $7 mil-
lion a year, plus lots more pushing
milk and Esskay hot dogs, Cal's
not allowed to wear blue jeans in
games. He has to wear a baseball
uniform which no one would want
to wear around the streets day in
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and day out,
The Baltimore fans, usually a
polite bunch, threw plenty of boos
in the President's direction when
he was first announced. Clinton
didn't seemto notice. He smiled
and I wanted to ask him if he
enjoys being President. Showing
they weren't just saving their ven-
om for the President, 'they put
even more vigor into their boos
when Maryland Gay. Pards Glen-
dening was announced. I asked
my buddy Larry, a Maryland resi-
dent, why they didn't like Glen-
dening. He wasn't sure. And I
wasn't sure why they were booing
Clinton so much either. Probably
because they can and that's one of
the greatest things about this
country. The most powerful man
can take the field in a stadium
where you' re seated and this "land
of the free and home of the brave"
permits you to boo him without
fear of reprisal. That's this coun-
try's greatness. I also think the
booing arose from the fact that
Rush Limbaugh, a major Clinton
boobird, takes the airwaves of
WBAL, the Orioles radio station
in Baltimore, every day. "Hell,"
they think. "If Rush can constant-
ly berate this man on the air, we
surely shouldn't miss a shot when
we have him here in front of us in
a stadium." There's a germ of
danger in there.
My bet is that Clinton wears
blue jeans more often than Lim-
baugh. And it's certain that the
fans liked the ball players more
than they liked their politicians.
And Cal, the classiest of all,
booed no one.
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They rolled a red carpet out from eenterfield at Camden Yards
and one of baseball's greatest players started another seaso
