Through is all, childhood, alcoholism, the Army, school, sobriety, good and bad, love, war, peace, rich and poor, there was always baseball. From listening to my little transistor radio under the covers at night seeing how many cities I could hear from Ohio, to watching everything on Direct TV's Extra Innings package from the middle of nowhere in the RV, there is baseball. I love the history of the game, the dead ball era, Cobb and Speaker and Wagner, Johnson and Matty, and Grover Cleveland Alexander, all the way through the 60's. There is a void during my drinking days, and the modern game has twice as many teams and is hard to keep up with, but I sure do enjoy watching.
And I played as a kid, and played softball as an adult. I hustled like Pete Rose in co-ed softball. Always played the game right. Played a lot of shortstop and first base, pitched a one hit shutout in the Babe Ruth league.
I've been to several professional games, minor and major league, but never to an entire 3 game series. Until last weekend, I got good $50 tickets to all 3 games of the Cards - Reds series and had a good time. 3 good ballgames, the Reds have some good pitching this year, so I wasn't afraid of a bunch of blowouts. It is a different perspective to attend the whole series. Here's some pictures from the Saturday night game, I parked in Kentucky and walked over the bridge to the stadium.
The old bridge from Covington, KY to Cincinnati
Cincinnati is my kind of town!
A view of the Great American Ballpark from the bridge.
The ballpark is beautiful inside.
Albert Pujols looks at a pitch
Fireworks from the twin stacks after the Reds win.
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