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Posted: August 17, 2006 1:46 pm
by Wino you know
Tully's Twin wrote:is there a team from Va.? in the series and a team from NY?
There is a team from Midlothian, VA (American Legion post 186)
and teams from Newburg, NY (post 157) and New Hartford, NY (post 1376).
http://www.baseball.legion.org/worldseries_contacts.htm
Posted: August 17, 2006 1:48 pm
by Tully's Twin
Midlothian VA beat Hamilton Post 31 fron NJ (my friends team) on their path to IA so I hope they win it all
Posted: August 17, 2006 1:51 pm
by Wino you know
Well, it's baseball, T.T., and, as you know, in baseball ANYTHING is possible.
except the Cubs making it to the World Series
If you want, let me know, and I can mail you the newpaper articles from the event, or you can just read about it at
www.gazetteonline.com
Posted: August 17, 2006 1:53 pm
by Tully's Twin
thanks and yes I know all about baseball, I love the game (as if no one here can tell) I will favorite place the site and track it that way
Posted: August 17, 2006 2:10 pm
by Cubbie Bear
Drove by this place in November, abandoned and vandalized. Made me just heart-sick
http://www.minorleagueballparks.com/enge_tn.html
Posted: August 17, 2006 2:38 pm
by Quiet and Shy
Wrigley.
Some of the charms are easy to see while others are woven into history and ivy. There's magic there. Today the frat types are to Wrigley as cruise ships are to Key West...it's still there; you just have to look a little harder to find it.
Posted: August 17, 2006 2:46 pm
by jeepgirl
rogue wrote:I am sorry to say the best baseball park is no longer open. Candlestick, in the bleachers. I am home.
The biggest silly string fight I have ever seen... Fourth of July...Santa( before he was Santa).
And I bet if he sees the post I just made him cry.
Now I am homesick, almost.
Ahhh the days of the "Stick"....best tailgates, I have many great memories of that place. Many a time we didn't even make it into
the game.
Posted: August 17, 2006 4:40 pm
by Cubbie Bear
Quiet and Shy wrote:Wrigley.
Some of the charms are easy to see while others are woven into history and ivy. There's magic there. Today the frat types are to Wrigley as cruise ships are to Key West...it's still there; you just have to look a little harder to find it.
Very well said. But I though maybe you were going to go with "the frat types have done to Wrigley what they have done to the Alpine lot"
Posted: August 17, 2006 6:05 pm
by Bubbaphan
This little slice of baseball heaven will close on Sept. 3.
What a great place to see a game.
New "bigger improved" stadium is being built.
http://www.ballparkreviews.com/lr/lr.htm
Posted: August 17, 2006 6:59 pm
by z-man
To me, a big part of baseball has always been about connecting the generations. I learned to love the game as a little kid listening to the games on the radio with my grandmother (she never missed a Tigers broadcast)
I saw my first professional game in Tigers Stadium, the same place where my mom had watched Hank Greenburg in the 40s, and my grandmother had watched Ty Cobb in the 20s.
I took my daughters to many games in Arlington Stadium. They still talk about watching Nolan Ryan pitch.
neither stadium is still around, but the family memories will be around for many years!
Posted: August 17, 2006 7:15 pm
by Tully's Twin
The older announcers Mel Allen, Ernie Harwell, Bob Murphy and those like them knew how to make us who were listening on radio feel like we were right there. Another announcer I still love is Vin Scully
Posted: August 17, 2006 7:38 pm
by rogue
ragtopW wrote:rogue wrote:I am sorry to say the best baseball park is no longer open. Candlestick, in the bleachers. I am home.
The biggest silly string fight I have ever seen... Fourth of July...Santa( before he was Santa).
And I bet if he sees the post I just made him cry.
Now I am homesick, almost.
Coors is nice ..
But the "Stick was home.. Hey!!!
Was that the time those ..Rather large gentlemen asked me to take that
fellows cap off for Him during the National Anthem???
How many times did we end up going??
I will eventually have to find a field here but it won't be the same.
Posted: August 17, 2006 7:43 pm
by rogue
RinglingRingling wrote:rogue wrote:I am sorry to say the best baseball park is no longer open. Candlestick, in the bleachers. I am home.
The biggest silly string fight I have ever seen... Fourth of July...Santa( before he was Santa).
And I bet if he sees the post I just made him cry.
Now I am homesick, almost.
Santa slathered in silly string?
No. We were too far away, but that would have been funny. Almost as much fun as watching him get hosed by the fire cannon in Eagle. Then a group of kids ganged up on him.
It was fun.
Posted: August 17, 2006 7:44 pm
by jonesbeach10
Yankee Stadium no doubt. If you mind your own business the surrounding neighborhood (albiet it isn't the most glamourous neighborhood in NYC) isn't a problem. It's simply when walk through the gates and see the field for the first time, you can immediately and overwhelmingly feel the history of the place.
Posted: August 17, 2006 8:39 pm
by ragtopW
Posted: August 17, 2006 9:59 pm
by RinglingRingling
They've had them in the past. Think part of the FL League as late as the late 1970s before they folded the last time.
Posted: August 17, 2006 11:56 pm
by Tully's Twin
IF Key West gets one I bet JB gets involved. Yankee Stadium is a nice park and you feel the majesty of the place just like you would in Wrigley and Fenway
Posted: August 18, 2006 12:44 pm
by Wino you know
Honolulu was home to the Hawaii Islanders from 1961-1987.
Aloha Stadium is still home to the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.
It actually sits on air cushions that can be moved from a football to a baseball configuration. It takes about two days to go from one configuration to the other.
It's nice, but doesn't have the minor league stadium ambieance that old Honolulu Stadium did. That one was tore down in 1975, three years before I moved there.
OH-and for the trivia buffs-JOE PEPITONE hit the first home run at Aloha Stadium in 1976-it's inagural year.
Posted: August 18, 2006 12:47 pm
by Tully's Twin
Hawaii Islanders used to be the AAA affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Posted: August 18, 2006 12:53 pm
by Wino you know
Tully's Twin wrote:Hawaii Islanders used to be the AAA affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Yes they were.
From 1973-1982 they were the Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres.
From 1983-1986, they were the Triple-A affiliate of the Pirates.
In 1987, they were the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox.
In 1988, the franchise moved to Colorado Springs, CO.
Among others, some of the players I saw play there were Dave Winfield, Ozzie Smith, Gaylord Perry (in an exhibition game between the Padres and the Japanese team Seibu Lions), Tony Gwynn, and Barry Bonds.
All are in the hall of fame, except, obviously, Bonds-which is another story for another day.