The Yard

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Have you seen my baseball?

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Harlem Marshalls looking good on Picture Day. Played tough and moved to 6-2.

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Baseball in the Time of Cholera

Directed by David Darg and Bryn Mooser

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42 Rainbow. Jackie Robinson Day, April 15, 2012. 

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22-1 season opener. Powerhouse!!

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One hitter and two big flies. Huge Opening Day win! Team looks great but long season ahead.

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Favorite Giants player ever, just about go time!!

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(photo by getouttaheremariah)

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New sod at Marcus Garvey Park for the 2012 season - looking plush!!

Harlem Marshalls taking it all in 2012!!

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Prospective Dodgers owner E. Magic Johnson, 1980

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Oscar Charleston - thought of by many of his peers to be perhaps the greatest all around player in Negro League baseball history. Kansas City, MO

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Welcome to my new photo blog. Will try to keep things sports related, but this really could go anywhere.

First post is dedicated to Satchel Paige. Just visited the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, MO and was very impressed. I've decided after visits to Cooperstown, Canton, and the Naismith that this Satchel Paige statue in KC is my favorite in all of sports; there's just something about. If you are a baseball fan and happen to be in Kansas City, this museum is a must visit!

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2011 Harlem Marshalls

This team was pulled straight off the Bad News Bears movie script; we started really bad, got no hit, had a lot of contrasting personalities. In the end we wound up making the playoffs as a four seed and were up on the one seed by four runs in the last inning when the rain started. That game will not be made up.

First team I've coached since the 1999 SPLL National League Padres. Very proud of these kids, they showed some serious heart. Youth athletics are so great.

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2006 - Sikasiwa, Zambia - Southern Province

Before I left for my Peace Corps service in Zambia one of my main objectives was to introduce baseball to my new community. I packed soft baseballs, right and left handed baseball mitts, and even loaded a full length game on my ipod to provide a visual representation. 

This is a photo of my two friends Sydney Himoomba and Godfrey Nzala before a field day at Kazungula Basic School. Three hours after this photo was taken all four of our soft baseballs were ripped in half, our village-made baseball bat was in two pieces, and a huge group of disinterested kids were back on the soccer field.

Two pluses, I suppose: I am the best baseball player those kids have ever seen, and my big "main objective" injured zero.

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2009

One of my favorite photos; me and my sister at Dodger Stadium.

I am a San Francisco Giants fan, but Dodger Stadium will always be home. The memories I have inside this building are some of the greatest I own.

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My first baseball team.

This picture was taken at the Arroyo Seco fields in South Pasadena/Highland Park, CA. I still remember everyone's name minus the guy up top four from left.

I think my most memorable moment on this squad was when my friend Basim and I were biking our separate ways to practice and crashed into each other blind on the corner of Bank Street and Marengo Avenue. It was a wreck but we both got up and shook it off. We also hit back to back triples one game and were pretty pumped up about that.

I'm not totally against it, but this may also be the last time I ever wear a Cubs hat.

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2011 has been a banner year for stadium visits. Finally got to Wrigley Field and loved it...future visits in the planning stage. Turner, Busch, and Kaufmann were all done on a whim, but I'm glad I got to each. KC was a great time, if you're ever there get the brisket sandwich, definitely a winner.

Hope 2012 brings much of the same.