Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Some of this summer's baseball booty

This is 30 of the 40 or so baseballs we got this summer on the trip-  The rack was built, but hasn't been installed just yet-  The top row is a category of what I am calling specialty balls, which are generally commemorative balls from places we visited, or balls that are issued by teams that describe "the road to the show", which is a logo display of all the teams in their progression to the majors, from rookie to the Big League Club.  The first ball on the left on top is an International League AAA ball, which shows all the teams in that league, then a Negro Leagues Museum ball from Kansas City, then the gold one 3rd from the left is one Cooper and I got at Cooperstown in 2007 when Tony Gwynn and Cal Rypkin were inducted, the 4th ball is one from Alcatraz prison, the next one is one of the Presidents of the US, the next is a ball from the state of Colorado, then one from the Taft National Monument, then one from Grand Teton National Park, then a Sox ball from Wrigley Field, the day we were there it was Mayor Daley day, and the last one on the top row is a Road to the Show ball from the Greenville SC Drive, for the Red Sox Organizaton.
On the Second row, left to right, we have Boise Idaho Hawks, Cedar Rapids Kernels, Chattanooga Lookouts, Omaha Storm Chasers, Sioux City Explorers, Rockford River Hawks, Missoula Osprey, River City Bandits, A Road to the Show Ball from the Independent Atlantic League of Baseball, and lastly a Great Falls Voyagers ball.  Bottom row left to right is Beloit Snappers, River City Rascals, Lincoln Salt Dogs, Helena Brewers, a Road to the Show ball from Cedar Rapids, Kansas City T Bones, Jackson Generals, Iowa Cubs, Clinton Lumber Kings, and the Gwinnett Braves.   Whew! 

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