Baseball and the Afterlife
In case you were wondering, you can now bring your favorite team's memorabilia into the afterlife. Want a Yankees' casket? You can have one. With how the team has been playing lately, it seems fitting that they would be buried. December 15, 2008 Editorial Notebook Pondering the Ultimate Sky Box By FRANCIS X. CLINES Leaving no merchandising stone unturned, Major League Baseball has authorized the use of team logos on a line of funeral caskets for people who want to carry their fandom unto eternity. Models for the Yankees (replete with interior pinstripes) and the Mets (with handles of mixed Dodger blue and Giant orange) went on sale at the Branch Funeral Home in Smithtown, Long Island. The caskets gleam in cream-colored 18-gauge steel, with the team logo embossed on both the open lid lining and the loved one’s head pillow. They dominate the display room’s 22 caskets, attracting more interest than the Harvard gunmetal model, the copper Pieta, or the solid cherry Senator, accor...