Fred Snodgrass was a successful baseball player for the Giants, but he was remembered for one of his failures. In the 1912 World Series, he dropped a pop fly. His error set up the winning run, for the next batter hit a single. Consequently, the Giants lost the game and the Series. When he died in 1974, the New York Times printed this headline:
“Fred Snodgrass, 86, Dead; Ballplayer Muffed Fly in 1912.”
Sixty-two years later, and yet they could not forget his mistake. Never mind the fact that Fred later became mayor of the city of Oxnard, California, and was a successful banker and rancher and raised a fine family. He dropped a pop-up in the 1912 series, and they couldn’t forget his mistake. How different from Christ who not only forgets our mistakes but forgives them.
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Thanks to Maxie Dunnam, PERCEPTIONS, Bristol Books.