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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  In the top of the 9th, the sun hit our backs and summer took one last long look.
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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  Now looking north, the tracks emerge from beneath Seventh Street as freight tracks only. The Northstar line ends at the northwest corner of the ballpark. One day, however, you can bet that other passenger trains will approach from the southwest metro on these tracks -- if our legislators are smart and persistent, that is.
"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move."– Satchel PaigeRandom Image  "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  Bag checking at Ball Park Lanes was incredibly simple, as was the pick up later. The line was short and fast-moving.
Research Library Random Image  Do you think somebody's already cooking hot dogs out there?
"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  Detail at Gate 6
"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  The entrance from the service level corridor. (You have to pass the Twins clubhouse door to get there.)
"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  Here's the Northstar platform.
"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  |