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My random, desktop image of the day happened to be this one. Perfect timing.
This image gives me hope that I’ve learned something along the way with photography. I took this six years ago, and it would have come out much better today. What was I thinking using settings like f/22 and 1/13 for shutter speed?
@DaleMurphy3
My favorite ballplayer as a kid, not on the Oakland A’s, was Murph. I just missed him when I went to Atlanta a few months ago, and I haven’t seen him since I was a teenager, but in some ways he changed my life forever.
@RobinsonCano @teixeiramark25 @Yankees
I took today’s photo in 2012, a year in which both Robinson Cano and Mark Teixeira won gold gloves while playing for the Yankees.
This year I will cross one more stadium off my bucket list. I’m heading to Kansas City in April to see the Royals play the Angels. Hopefully, I’ll get to see Shohei Ohtani hit and pitch.
@HenryLouisAaron #HankAaron #BlackHistoryMonth @Braves
Hammerin’ Hank turns 84 today. As a kid I bought a book called Hammerin’ Hank of the Braves and wrote a book report on it in elementary school. Aaron had “only” 592 home runs when that book was written.
Today’s photo comes from my visit to SunTrust Park in December. There are lots of cool Braves displays that you probably will miss if you go to a game. However, if you take a tour you can catch them all.
Japanese professional baseball “ema” in the Fukuoka Dome
You normally find ema at Shinto shrines in Japan. People write their prayers and wishes on them, hang them at the shrine, probably nobody reads them, and eventually they are burned. If they weren’t aesthetically pleasing (and a possible source of the placebo effect) they would be completely pointless.
Not so with these baseball ema which you can find at the home of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks (福岡ソフトバンクホークス). These are for fans to write notes to specific players. I suppose the players eventually get to read them. Kind of fun and very Japanese.
