We are fortunate to live close enough to any major league sport that we want to go see. And the fact that we can now see Major League Baseball in DC and not have to go all the way to Baltimore is a plus. We try and take the boys at least once during the season.
Last week the weather forecast was calling for thunderstorms and rain the day of the game. Of course they were. :/ But Ken insisted that we go ahead and go.
What I didn't realize was that he had gotten club level seats so if it started raining hard we could go inside. As it turns out, our seats were under the cover anyway so we were good to go regardless.
Works for a princess like me!
Cracker Jacks! Get your Cracker Jacks heeeerrrreee! No longer in a box, but the jacks themselves are just as yummy. :up:
The coolest violin evar!
Ken and Shane ham it up for the camera. Okay. They appeased me.
Rally Cap time! Unfortunately it didn't work but Ken did look cute. :)
The Reds...the competition...
Cool fact.
When I was doing some family genealogy, I found out that my great-great grandfather Jacob Henry Boyd pitched for the Washington Senators back in the turn of the century. His debut was 1894. Although he wasn't a great player, it's kind of cool to think about his life and how baseball was played at the time.
I was able to find articles in the Washington Post from his first game. It made him real and it put me into the time period. It was a real slice of Americana.
And even though the Nats lost, it was a great day at the ballpark!
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Interesting you mentioned the Washington Senators. If you look at their records, you will find the "first" Walter Johnson..aka "the Big Train." When "my" Train (Walter Johnson) was a little boy and played baseball, his baseball coach called him "the Little Train." The nickname remained with him forever!
That's awesome! And now I know how he got the nickname. Cool. :)
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