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09-05-2019, 06:02 PM | #1 |
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My home ballpark—virtual tour
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6813...7i13904!8i6952
Weurfel Park (now Pit Spitters Park) in Traverse City, MI. Where's yours?
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09-06-2019, 09:50 AM | #2 |
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That is a really nice ballpark. Simply a great design and colors, and layout. Looks like a cool place to catch a game. It is amazing how that kind of ballpark can create a sense of place.
I'm from Baltimore, so Camden is my park, but I am old enough to have solid memories of Memorial Stadium. Thanks for posting. -Cal Last edited by Calvert98; 09-06-2019 at 10:01 AM. |
09-06-2019, 10:15 AM | #3 |
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Helluva nice ballpark. Just get rid of the nickname. It's almost as bad as the New Orleans Baby Cakes and the Amarillo Sod Poodles. What the hell is a Sod Poodle anyway?
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09-06-2019, 11:06 AM | #4 |
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Bosse Field
23 Don Mattingly Way Evansville, Indiana
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09-06-2019, 11:51 AM | #5 |
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Love that brick!! Bosse is still on my visit list.
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09-06-2019, 11:55 AM | #7 |
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The park was built by the Beach Bums original owner, who made his fortune off resorts here in Michigan. He got the park built to reflect the more modern hotels being built in the area.
Oh, and a sod poodle is a prairie dog.
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09-06-2019, 03:49 PM | #8 |
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These two parks look nice, both are in the Frontier League, correct?
I live not far from GMC Stadium, home of the Gateway Grizzlies, and occasionally attend games there. Nice little park as well. |
09-06-2019, 04:36 PM | #9 |
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We were in the Frontier, but the Beach Bums dissolved and now we're the Pit Spitters in the Northwoods League (https://northwoodsleague.com)
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09-06-2019, 05:42 PM | #10 |
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Much prettier than mine. Always and forever, Oldsmobile Stadium to me, but currently named Cooley Law School Stadium.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Co...!4d-84.5455985
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For something a bit different. The original opened in 1926 and the new one was constructed in 2006 and opened in 2007. Last edited by rudel.dietrich; 09-06-2019 at 11:20 PM. |
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"Supposedly, sod poodle is an archaic nickname for a prairie dog, although no one but people with the baseball team seems to have ever heard it before."
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09-09-2019, 01:29 PM | #13 |
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Not open yet, but this will be my closest "home park", although of course Fenway really isn't that far...
Before: https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en...68049923205522 After: https://www.polarpark.com/
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09-10-2019, 12:40 PM | #14 |
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Sweet! I love the projection of the park over the empty lot.
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Montgomery Biscuits is as bad as New Orleans Baby Cakes and the Sod Poodles... there are too many bad nicknames to list here. Thanks to Ty Cobb for sharing the stadium... looks like a real nice one. Wish the minor league would cover the stands from first to third... day games really get hot in the South and West. |
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Yea, I'll jump on the bandwagon that having minor league teams with their parent club's name is boring. But, I'll also support that names like the Baby Cakes and Sod Poodles are dumb.
How's that for fence straddling? Maybe its because I grew up in Rochester, NY where the Red Wings played against teams like the Clipper, the Tides, and the Mud Hens ... and yes, the we-can't-come-up-with-our-own-identity Pawtucket Red Sox.
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09-14-2019, 12:11 PM | #18 |
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I always regarded the Paw Sox as the exception to the rule. BUT...the Red Wings—awesome logo! The Clips & the Hens...nothing else like it, and you can tell by the historically rabid nature of the fans. It says a lot about how the game has changed (for the worse) that teams aren't being more creative in a positive way. Our old team in Traverse City was the Beach Bums, because it's a hugely popular resort area.
Going one more post up, the Loons—I REALLY want to go to a ballgame at Dow Diamond on a cool spring night, as I see they light big fires around the stadium you can warm up by.
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09-14-2019, 03:27 PM | #20 |
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The Woo-Sox? Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
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