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Take me out to the (Sea Dogs) ballgame…

Sometimes smaller is better. Minor league baseball is a case in point. Now, usually I could care less about pro sports…too much big business, too much money, not enough soul.

When we lived on San Juan Island, Wash., though, the boys of course got caught up in rooting for the Seattle Mariners. When we moved to Maine, allegiances were shared (transferred?) to the Red Sox, with glee that the curse of the bambino was stomped into history the year we moved here. So the boys wanted to go to a game…where to go? Boston is about 4 hours away, and tickets cost a fortune. Why, the Sea Dogs home stadium in Portland (2 hours) of course!

Hadlock Field seems to me to be what pro ball ought to be and maybe used to be. You get to meet the players downstairs. You can actually see their faces even from the top row of the bleachers (sat there and can attest to that!). They have folks from Maine sing the anthem, and a kid from the stands launch the game with “Play Ball!” (this past Sunday, the little boy couldn’t have been much more than 2!). They announce things like “most improved students” and post names on the scoreboard and let the kids walk onto the infield and get a round of applause. They have a “lobster toss” at the 7th inning stretch where two folks from the stands get to try to catch toy lobsters in an old-fashioned lobster trap gizzy and win a dinner at a local restaurant. Here are “my guys” (L to R) hubby, Joshua (trying to avoid being in the shot) and Eli (red t-shirt):

This Sunday was HOT…mid-80s, amplified by the dark green plastic seats and shiny aluminum stands, bright sun and screaming blue skies. And lest you think I’ve totally lost it, I take my hand applique or hand quilting with me! And actually work on it. Or, take pictures for visual reference…. Look at the lines in these crowd shots:

Or even the physical contours of a pitcher doing his thing:

Just proves you can find art anywhere if you just look!

2 Responses to “Take me out to the (Sea Dogs) ballgame…”

  1. Deborah Says:

    Sounds like a great adventure. Didn’t you tell me you were going to have Ethiopian food too? How was that? Are you saving that for another post? The somewhat — but not completely — random seating of the people in the crowd shot is very arty.

  2. :-D eirdre Says:

    First – I have no idea how large your school quilt was – for some reason I was seeing it as 1/4 or less that size.

    Then for another important question who won the game, Home or Visitors?