"Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, I don't care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the home team, If they don't win it's a shame. For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out, At the old ball game."
Author: Jack Norworth Composer: Albert Von Tilzer
Walking into the Field
Ken Griffey is next
The ever funny 'Beer Poet' and his Peanuts
Proof that I bought Peanuts
The 'talk' at the mound
Mr. Boatman and Me ... also known as the guy I threw my peanut shells at
I went to a baseball game. I haven't done that in a while. We have a major league team but it's across the lake and over the bridge. Not something easy to do. It has to be a planned way in advance adventure. The cost is something isn't it !! I mean really .. the ticket .. if you want to see anything without your binoculars .. is out of this world. Add some food and a drink and you're in for a hundred or so.
I grew up walking to the local baseball stadium. It was a minor league team. I moved but still I could walk home from the park. It was small enough that I could get signatures from the players. I loved it.
Sometimes we'd go later and sit on the hill outside the park. I did that a lot too.
When I moved a couple of towns away, they put the freeway through that part of town. I no longer could ... if I wanted to ... walk to the park. It seemed longer too. Maybe when your a child on a warm Summer night, it doesn't seem as far but as an older child, ok, I'm an adult, it seems likes at least four miles.
It was fun going to this fancy baseball game. I even ate peanuts.
Do you go to games ? Do you think a beer shouldn't cost $8.75 ? The peanuts were a deal at $3.75.
