Featured Blog Posts – October 2011 Archive (3)

What type of Ballpark Chaser are you?

I am interested to learn how most members attempt to visit all 30 ballparks:

Have you already hit all 30 ballparks?
Are you visiting the 30 ballparks when the opportunity presents itself, and not so concerned with achieving all 30 in a given time frame?
Are you chasing all 30 ballparks over the course of a few years?
Are you trying to chase them all in a single year? and if so, are you going for all 30 in 2012?

My husband and I are…

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Added by Paula Vaughnn on October 29, 2011 at 9:44pm — 11 Comments

A Baseball Season to Remember

Originally written on October 29, 2011

An absolutely thrilling World Series has brought to an end a baseball season which I as baseball fan in general and an Orioles fan in particular will cherish in memory forever.

Anyone reading must wonder why I am so fond of a season in which the Orioles went 69-93 and tragically lost former Orioles' great Mike Flanagan. The answer is the personal slice of the season that I experienced was much different than the…

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Added by James Bernheimer on October 29, 2011 at 7:30am — 6 Comments

Moneyball

The movie is fantastic. Superb acting (love the scene with the 'old timer' scouts). That was perfectly done. The sound/no sound in the movie was fantastic during that 20th game.

It's a good date movie, it's a good guys/gals night out movie. It's a good movie. I probably would not recommend it for youngsters (under the years of 12 or 13). It's not necessarily about baseball (though that's a big part of it) but about trying to implement a…

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Added by meg minard (30/44/205) on October 6, 2011 at 6:24pm — 5 Comments