Jim's BaseBall Outing

Every so often my wife feels the need to torture me and insists I go to
a baseball game with her. This is the result of my day at the ball
park.

http://www.jlkramer.net/Pictures/JBBO/JBBO.htm

This in not Dial-up friendly, about 2MB

Jim

JimKramer wrote:
Every so often my wife feels the need to torture me and insists I go to
a baseball game with her. This is the result of my day at the ball
park.

http://www.jlkramer.net/Pictures/JBBO/JBBO.htm


Thanks for sharing. Next time, go to a minor league game. You can get
much closer without the need for the 400 f/2.8L IS or the 500 f/4.
http://www.pbase.com/bret/lookouts

Oh yeah, the hot dogs are much cheaper and better tasting as well.

JimKramer wrote:
Every so often my wife feels the need to torture me and insists I go to
a baseball game with her. This is the result of my day at the ball
park.

http://www.jlkramer.net/Pictures/JBBO/JBBO.htm

This in not Dial-up friendly, about 2MB

Jim

Very nice pics, Jim. You captured the actions of the game very well.
Helen

"JimKramer" wrote in message
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Every so often my wife feels the need to torture me and insists I go to
a baseball game with her. This is the result of my day at the ball
park.

http://www.jlkramer.net/Pictures/JBBO/JBBO.htm

This in not Dial-up friendly, about 2MB

Jim

Nice pictures, for someone who doesn't like sports.....Many years ago I
worked with a friend who loved baseball, and kept trying to get me to go to
a game with him. Finally I gave in, and we went to see the Oakland A's play
the Braves at The Coliseum one evening. It was the first game I had seen
since I was a kid, and I was like 35 years old.....Well, we saw Jim
"Catfish" Hunter pitch a perfect game.....No, "Brave" ever reached first
base.......The last guy up got a 3/2 count and kept fowling pitches....About
6 of them, until Hunter finally struck him out.........I haven't seen a game
since. It's just as well. Nothing I could see would have topped that.

William Graham wrote:
Nice pictures, for someone who doesn't like sports.....Many years ago I
worked with a friend who loved baseball, and kept trying to get me to go to
a game with him. Finally I gave in, and we went to see the Oakland A's play
the Braves at The Coliseum one evening. It was the first game I had seen
since I was a kid, and I was like 35 years old.....Well, we saw Jim
"Catfish" Hunter pitch a perfect game.....No, "Brave" ever reached first
base.......

It was the Twins, not the Braves. Rod Carew didn't suffer through too
many 0-for-3 games.

You know, old-timer, they say that your memory is the second thing to
go.
I forget what the first is.

Annika1980 wrote:
William Graham wrote:
Nice pictures, for someone who doesn't like sports.....Many years ago I
worked with a friend who loved baseball, and kept trying to get me to go to
a game with him. Finally I gave in, and we went to see the Oakland A's play
the Braves at The Coliseum one evening. It was the first game I had seen
since I was a kid, and I was like 35 years old.....Well, we saw Jim
"Catfish" Hunter pitch a perfect game.....No, "Brave" ever reached first
base.......

It was the Twins, not the Braves. Rod Carew didn't suffer through too
many 0-for-3 games.

You know, old-timer, they say that your memory is the second thing to
go.
I forget what the first is.


I forget what the first is.

Well, it can't be TOO important, with a nickname like "Wild Bill".
You're a valuable asset to this newsgroup Bill!
Helen

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William Graham wrote:
Nice pictures, for someone who doesn't like sports.....Many years ago I
worked with a friend who loved baseball, and kept trying to get me to go
to
a game with him. Finally I gave in, and we went to see the Oakland A's
play
the Braves at The Coliseum one evening. It was the first game I had seen
since I was a kid, and I was like 35 years old.....Well, we saw Jim
"Catfish" Hunter pitch a perfect game.....No, "Brave" ever reached first
base.......

It was the Twins, not the Braves. Rod Carew didn't suffer through too
many 0-for-3 games.

You know, old-timer, they say that your memory is the second thing to
go.
I forget what the first is.


You know, you're right. And I'm the reference! - I Googled it up, and found
myself! - Here is the link:
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseb...aham_Bill1.stm

William Graham wrote:
"JimKramer" wrote in message
oups.com...
Every so often my wife feels the need to torture me and insists I go to
a baseball game with her. This is the result of my day at the ball
park.

http://www.jlkramer.net/Pictures/JBBO/JBBO.htm

Nice pictures, for someone who doesn't like sports.....Many years ago I
worked with a friend who loved baseball, and kept trying to get me to go to
a game with him. Finally I gave in, and we went to see the Oakland A's play
the Braves at The Coliseum one evening. It was the first game I had seen
since I was a kid, and I was like 35 years old.....Well, we saw Jim
"Catfish" Hunter pitch a perfect game.....No, "Brave" ever reached first
base.......The last guy up got a 3/2 count and kept fowling pitches....

Now, then, when it comes to fowls and BB, Bret's got a human sized one.....

But BB has improved in that the pitchers are filmed, and so are less
inclined to foul the ball with hair jiz, vaseline, terps, tars, etc.

--

john mcwilliams who's grown to rather dislike BB now that there's
lacrosse in civilized parts of the world.

[Yes, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England all have teams, as does....
quite a few].

William Graham wrote:
"Annika1980" wrote in message
ups.com...
William Graham wrote:
Nice pictures, for someone who doesn't like sports.....Many years ago I
worked with a friend who loved baseball, and kept trying to get me to go
to
a game with him. Finally I gave in, and we went to see the Oakland A's
play
the Braves at The Coliseum one evening. It was the first game I had seen
since I was a kid, and I was like 35 years old.....Well, we saw Jim
"Catfish" Hunter pitch a perfect game.....No, "Brave" ever reached first
base.......
It was the Twins, not the Braves. Rod Carew didn't suffer through too
many 0-for-3 games.

You know, old-timer, they say that your memory is the second thing to
go.
I forget what the first is.


You know, you're right. And I'm the reference! - I Googled it up, and found
myself! - Here is the link:
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseb...aham_Bill1.stm


Wow! Ya gotta believe. I just looked up Reggie Jackson to be reminded it
was in 1977 I wuz at Yankee stadium when he hit three homers. (= many
sixes).

--
john mcwilliams

"John McWilliams" wrote in message

Wow! Ya gotta believe. I just looked up Reggie Jackson to be reminded it
was in 1977 I wuz at Yankee stadium when he hit three homers. (= many
sixes).

--

I have been to hundreds of Cleveland Indians games ever since I was a kid
growing up in Elyria nearby and worked at the old Cleveland Press later. In
the 1960s and 70s at old Cleveland Municipal Stadium there were so few
people in the stands every night that you were on a first-name basis with
everyone by the sixth inning.
Jacobs Field is one of the finest places I have ever attended a game, and I
go back to my early childhood in New York at Ebbets Field and the Polo
Grounds, where you were so close you could talk in a normal voice to the
players on the field when there was a lull in the action.
Next best ball park is right here in Toledo, Ohio, where the AAA All-Star
game was held last night. It is a wonderful, small stadium, rated by
Newsweek Magazine as the best minor league park in the country. A fantastic
place to watch the budding stars.
Definitely, a photog with a decent lens can shoot action from the seats.
My claim to fame in attending games was the one I never saw. My dad had
tickets to the fifth game of the 1954 World Series, pitting my beloved
Indians against the N.Y. Giants. The series, if you recall, was over in four
games.