Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame
As a kid in the 1970s, my baseball team of choice was the Cincinnati Reds. This was the era of the Big Red Machine, winners of two World Series, with roster of future Hall of …
Category: Sports
Quick Stops Around Oklahoma City
Jim Thorpe Museum Inside the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame was the Jim Thorpe Museum. There wasn’t much by way of artifacts, mostly pictures and signboards telling the story of his life. Jim was born …
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A Mad Dash Across Some Great Lake States
In early May, we needed to make an emergency trip from Kansas back east to New Jersey (1,100 miles in just over a day, woo-hoo!). After a few weeks on the East Coast, we reversed …
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Scenes from the Coast of Louisiana
We didn’t spend much time in Louisiana — a dash to the coast to do a little birding, see some Rugby, and spend a day in New Orleans before turning northward again. One of my …
Montreal Canadiens vs Pittsburgh Penguins
It is said that you can’t experience Montreal properly unless you attend a hockey game. Fortunately, there were a handful of tickets still available for the Pittsburgh Penguins’ visit to the Bell Centre to take …
“Hit Bull Win Steak”
If you’re a baseball fan, or a movie fan, or a baseball movie fan, then you probably can figure out where we visited by the headline of this post. For the rest of you, we …