Two weeks ago my dad and I set off for New York to catch the Twins at Yankee stadium. I bought game tickets way back in early March, because after this season Yankee stadium is being torn down. I'm a baseball nut, and I just had to boo Derek Jeter in "the house that Ruth built."
The trip started with a few days of driving. We passed Lagrange, IN (A how-how-how-how), and made our first stop in Angola, IN. They had a bunch fireworks stores, liquors stores, and cigarette shacks. One cigarette shack was called "The Butt Hut," but I unfortunately forgot to take a picture of this. That was pretty much all that Indiana had to offer.
When we finally made it to New York our first stop was Cooperstown and the Baseball Hall of
Fame. The museum was pretty cool, but a lot smaller than I thought it would be. They have a ton of stuff from the Babe Ruth era on display, but not too much on display from the modern era. I expected entire wings for Rickey Henderson, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, world championships, etc. What we found was a single sports locker dedicated to each individual team to cram their entire franchise's history.
Fame. The museum was pretty cool, but a lot smaller than I thought it would be. They have a ton of stuff from the Babe Ruth era on display, but not too much on display from the modern era. I expected entire wings for Rickey Henderson, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, world championships, etc. What we found was a single sports locker dedicated to each individual team to cram their entire franchise's history. The Twins' locker had a hat from Kirby Puckett, a baseball from Jack Morris' World Series shutout, a jersey and a few bats. One of the bats was Matthew Lecroy's, who hit three consecutive pinch-hit home runs to tie a major league record.
I asked one of the Cooperstown employees if the Barry Bonds asterisk ball was there yet. I knew it was going to be added to the Hall of Fame right around the time we were there, but he said it wasn't going to arrive for a couple more days. Rats! He said it'd go in the Giants' locker. This surprised me. The ball that broke Hank Aaron's all-time home run record, a ball that someone paid $750000 for, will just sit on the bottom of a locker not 10 feet from a bat that Matthew Lecroy swung. I imagined a whole Bonds display, with the asterisk ball displayed on a podium atop a silk pillow in it's own glass case, like the Hope diamond or something.
The Hall was pretty fun, but the next day it was time to move on to the feature presentation: Yankee Stadium.
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