Thursday,
June 11
Day
65
After a nice breakfast we
packed our day packs and drove into Cleveland for the Mariner versus
Indians at Progressive Field.
We were filmed by a Root sport cameraman walking toward the field. He was busy taking film footage so not really open to our speech. This was a 12:05 game time start and there were quite a few fans for a Thursday.
After entering the stadium we visited the Indians rendition of Monument Park.
At Progressive Field they have retired the number 455 to honor the fans who sold out the first 455 games at "The Jake" as the park was nicknamed.
We were able to go down near the Mariner's dugout and take some photos and have our photo taken for our keepsake of the park.
After our photo, a woman sitting right above the dugout gave us a thumb's up. Jack decided to go talk to her while Jodi took more photos. It turned out to be the Mariner's starting pitcher JA Happ's mom. In 2009, Happ had a 12 -4 record and was named the Sporting News NL Rookie of the Year. We are hoping for good things for him and from him with our Seattle Mariners. Later his Dad joined him as well and they had a nice chat. Jack shared our Unbound information with her and asked her to pass it on to her son if possible. Keeping our fingers crossed! It was fun to see the Mariner's again, however it was not a good game for them. Happ really struggled and was out after 2 2/3 innings and a 4-0 deficit. We had trouble getting men on base and it just was not our day.
There is an interesting piece of Cleveland Indian baseball history. In 1899, owner Frank Robinson transferred all his best players from The Cleveland Spiders to the other team he owned, the St. Louis Browns. After the departure of Cy Young, Jesse Burkett and Patsy Tebeau, the Spiders had an all-time-worst 20-134 record finishing 84 games behind Brooklyn, the first place team. After the season ended, the Spiders were eliminated when the National League was shrunk from 12 to 8 teams. It hardly seemed fair as they had won the Temple Cup (equivalent of the World Series) in 1892, 1895 1nd 1896. There are now rules preventing owners from controlling interest in more than one major league team at a time.
We were filmed by a Root sport cameraman walking toward the field. He was busy taking film footage so not really open to our speech. This was a 12:05 game time start and there were quite a few fans for a Thursday.
After entering the stadium we visited the Indians rendition of Monument Park.
We were able to go down near the Mariner's dugout and take some photos and have our photo taken for our keepsake of the park.
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| Starting pitcher JA Happ |
After our photo, a woman sitting right above the dugout gave us a thumb's up. Jack decided to go talk to her while Jodi took more photos. It turned out to be the Mariner's starting pitcher JA Happ's mom. In 2009, Happ had a 12 -4 record and was named the Sporting News NL Rookie of the Year. We are hoping for good things for him and from him with our Seattle Mariners. Later his Dad joined him as well and they had a nice chat. Jack shared our Unbound information with her and asked her to pass it on to her son if possible. Keeping our fingers crossed! It was fun to see the Mariner's again, however it was not a good game for them. Happ really struggled and was out after 2 2/3 innings and a 4-0 deficit. We had trouble getting men on base and it just was not our day.
There is an interesting piece of Cleveland Indian baseball history. In 1899, owner Frank Robinson transferred all his best players from The Cleveland Spiders to the other team he owned, the St. Louis Browns. After the departure of Cy Young, Jesse Burkett and Patsy Tebeau, the Spiders had an all-time-worst 20-134 record finishing 84 games behind Brooklyn, the first place team. After the season ended, the Spiders were eliminated when the National League was shrunk from 12 to 8 teams. It hardly seemed fair as they had won the Temple Cup (equivalent of the World Series) in 1892, 1895 1nd 1896. There are now rules preventing owners from controlling interest in more than one major league team at a time.
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| Bullpens |
We were so happy to be at a game where both of the kids from Unbound, Felix representing Felix Hernandez of the Mariners and Daniela representing Danny Salazar of Cleveland have already been sponsored thanks to our great friends Tom and Lisa Keely and Margaret Archer.
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