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Braves at Twins
Saturday, June 12, 6:10 PM
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"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."– Rogers HornsbyExplore the Site This site currently contains Random Image  JohnW provides this shot of a construction barricade on First Avenue
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Reflections on the last days of a bad baseball place. 78 pages, with over 50 full color images. Available on Amazon. Random Image  "Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move."– Satchel PaigeRandom Image  Somebody asked how long it would be before the tarp had a sponsor. Well, not very long.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference."– Tommy LasordaRandom Image  Research Library Random Image  "Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will."– Harry CarayRandom Image  The glass area seen here is one of the warm-up areas.
"All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon."– Branch RickeyRandom Image  What has been actually built so far is only a tiny subset of this vision.
"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us."– Walt WhitmanRandom Image  "Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain."– Casey StengelRandom Image  Looking up Sixth Street, now barricaded for plaza extension.
"You talk about the magic, the aura, but what really makes a stadium is the fans. Concrete doesn't talk back to you. Chairs don't talk back to you. It's the people who are there, day in, day out, that makes the place magic."– Bernie WilliamsRandom Image  Directly above the ceiling here is the hidden concourse which served the upper deck prior to the renovation. That concourse was closed off to the public, but became a service level for ballpark employees. It's one of the many quirks which will be lost when the wrecking ball takes the place away.
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