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pitchersandpoets: Wandy Rodriguez, Houston Astro. Photo by Ted Walker, dope editing work by Caroline Walker, aka King Bunny. View high resolution

pitchersandpoets:

Wandy Rodriguez, Houston Astro. Photo by Ted Walker, dope editing work by Caroline Walker, aka King Bunny.

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Craig Biggio 3000th hit bobblehead that will be given away at the Astros’ June 22nd game.  A list of giveaways for the entire season is here.

Craig Biggio 3000th hit bobblehead that will be given away at the Astros’ June 22nd game. 

A list of giveaways for the entire season is here.

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The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again.

terence mann

25 more days until pitchers and catchers report.

(via morenonsenseandgrizzlybears)

Been too long since I’ve watched this movie.

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This picture of Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell, and Mike Hampton captures one of the happiest moments of my life - when the Astros clinched the NL Central division in 1997, for the first time that I was able to remember (their previous trip to the playoffs was 1986).  For the majority of my life I was OBSESSED with the Astros and baseball and Craig Biggio. Oh, Craig Biggio. Spring Training was the best season of the year, and Vero Beach was my favorite place to watch a game because the stadium was kind of crappy, which meant the dugouts were like Little League dugouts, and one game I was like 5 feet away from Biggio for hours! I’m not really sure why, but ever since the Astros finally made it to the World Series in 2005 (and were swept by the White Sox), my interest has waned. I think it’s a combination of all my childhood favorites retiring and actually having interests in things a little more relevant to life than baseball, like say, having friends. (J/K, I had friends in high school, but definitely chose watching a game at home by myself over hanging out with my non baseball fanatic friends more than once). I haven’t read the article yet because I know it’s going to bring back a lot of middle school/high school era memories & feelings, and I should probably just be home in solitude for that. 

This picture of Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell, and Mike Hampton captures one of the happiest moments of my life - when the Astros clinched the NL Central division in 1997, for the first time that I was able to remember (their previous trip to the playoffs was 1986). 

For the majority of my life I was OBSESSED with the Astros and baseball and Craig Biggio. Oh, Craig Biggio. Spring Training was the best season of the year, and Vero Beach was my favorite place to watch a game because the stadium was kind of crappy, which meant the dugouts were like Little League dugouts, and one game I was like 5 feet away from Biggio for hours!

I’m not really sure why, but ever since the Astros finally made it to the World Series in 2005 (and were swept by the White Sox), my interest has waned. I think it’s a combination of all my childhood favorites retiring and actually having interests in things a little more relevant to life than baseball, like say, having friends. (J/K, I had friends in high school, but definitely chose watching a game at home by myself over hanging out with my non baseball fanatic friends more than once).

I haven’t read the article yet because I know it’s going to bring back a lot of middle school/high school era memories & feelings, and I should probably just be home in solitude for that. 

fastcompany: How do you assemble a great American pastime? With bats, balls, beer—and a pro league that nets $6.1 billion in revenue. As the World Series looms, we break down what’s driving Baseball Inc. View high resolution

fastcompany:

How do you assemble a great American pastime? With bats, balls, beer—and a pro league that nets $6.1 billion in revenue. As the World Series looms, we break down what’s driving Baseball Inc.

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