2004 Baseball

Harrisburg Senators 1 Altoona Curve 0

Tuesday Night
Harrisburg, PA
With Jamie and Marc

Game 1 of Baseball Trip 2004. Jamie and I have taken trips together every summer since 1999. We've had many other assorted characters accompany us and this year we added the Balgavy to the mix. Give the boy a fantasy team and you've given him the world. The trip was in doubt for much of the summer, what with the weddings and all, but it all came together at the end.

We left New York in a haze of excitement and iPod delirium. When we arrived in Harrisburg, I was pleased to discover that this would my first ever baseball game on a small island. City Island, that is, right across the mighty Susquehanna from scenic Harrisburg. The idea of putting a baseball park on an island barely big enough for the park and a parking lot reminds me of some of the crazy baseball ideas Rich and I came up with for our dream stadiums in that bucolic summer of ’92 when we spent two out of every three home games at the ballpark. While this park was not situated on a traveling barge and it did not include spikes that periodically sprouted from the ground, this island did include batting cages, a carousel, and something called water golf.

We snagged front row seats down the line, Marc partook in a dollar hot dog, and Expo prospect Larry Broadway went deep for the Senators to account for the only run. Hopefully, this will be just one of many future Senator homeruns for the strapping slugger, but in Washington and not in Harrisburg. (Damn Nationals for screwing with my joke!)

After the game, Jamie connected for some solid line drives in the batting cage and then we checked out the bridge that connected us to the mainland.

Finally we headed back to the car to listen to Mets-Rockies (Victor Zambrano got hurt, lovely!) before continuing on in our journey of 147 unanswered Eric Bachmann tunes. Ah the glory of the iPod.

Posted by dan at August 17, 2004 06:37 PM