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Thanks to a Fun Flight on Southwest Airlines, I arrive at Houston Hobby airport about 45 minutes before the first pitch is scheduled to be thrown at Minute Maid Park in downtown mexico city underground tours Houston. Although this is a tight schedule, I will still complete one of my ongoing missions to visit every Major League Baseball Park in the country.
Following the signs for Ground Transportation , I find the local bus stop and wait for Bus No. 88 to arrive. Preparing to put $2.00 in the fare meter, I am asked by the bus driver, Don't you have a quarter? I respond No and unexpectedly get a discount. Instead of paying the $1.25 bus fare or $26 for a taxi, I am headed to downtown Houston for a buck.
Arriving in downtown, I exit Bus No.88 near Stop One. From here it is about a ten block walk to the stadium, less than twenty minutes. Starving after a long day of work and travel, my prayers are answered by a neon sign across an empty parking lot.
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If the game itself is not entertaining enough for you then the other stadium offerings like The Kiss Cam or Air Guitar will be sure to bring laughter or the fainest of smiles. Time for the The 7th Inning Stretch and the Astros can really use the motivation as they are still trailing the Cubs. I guess they have had their share of:
I get my share of Texas hospitality at the Fan Accommodation booth where I am given a First Time Visitor certificate. This brings a smile to my face and I feel like a five year old kid, Deep In The Heart Of Texas .
I can't possibly compete with your stories, but I do have a number of anecdotes to tell, also related to our quest to visit all the ballparks (they've torn down and replaced so many since we started that we now have to backtrack!). Be back later....
Was taken to the games by my dad starting when I was 5 and got to see the Yankee greats of the 60s. (Company seats for salesmen to use - but on weekends other employees could get them for their families). They would send me down front - knowing mexico city underground tours a cute little girl with a blond pony tail would find it easier to get a program autographed.
To the clubs of the 90's and 2000's - with their incredible history. (Now we don't have time to go often - but make a point of sitting on the field - I want to see as much as I can - and prefer the waitress mexico city underground tours service.)
But I come by it honestly. My grandfather took my grandmother there shortly after their marriage (1920). She told me her memory - that Babe Ruth ran very daintily for such a big man - and did hit a homer on the day she was there.
And my father played, as a teenager, for a local team - also called the Yankees - and followed everything they did in the late 30's, 40's and 50's - so he clearly remembers from DiMaggio and Berra on.
I have only been to 3 baseball parks that I can recall. I'm not a big baseball fan. That said, nothing beats the excitement of a game at Wrigley Field in Chicago. I know, the Cubs can't seem to do very well.... (thanks to the billygoat)... Face it, the Cubs probably have more fans than any team anywhere. Everybody loves rooting for the underdog.
Hated the Damn Yankees (the most championships money could buy) - but always loved the Dodgers - affectionately called "Da Bums" by their long suffering fans - and out here on the left coast - we liked them even more after they moved West in '58.
And oh - the stories about the old ballparks: Ebbets Field in Brooklyn (Abe Stark's sign in Right Field - Hit sign - win suit) - and who was the gal who rang the cowbell? - to the fabled Polo Grounds where the Giants played - and also where great old Army team (football) was upset by Notre Dame - and the incomparable sports writer - Grantland Rice - wrote about the Four Horsemen and the Apocalypse - to the other classic fields that were small and more intimate - and sadly are no longer with us.
It was 77 years ago that a dramatic nickname coined by a poetic sportswriter and the quick-thinking actions of a clever student publicity aide transformed the Notre Dame backfield of Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden into the most fabled quartet in college football history.
Quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, left halfback Jim Crowley, right halfback Don Miller and fullback Elmer Layden had run rampant through Irish opponents' defenses since coach Knute Rockne devised the lineup in 1922 during their sophomore season. But the foursome needed some help from Grantland mexico city underground tours Rice, a sportswriter for the New York Herald-Tribune, to achieve football immortality. After Notre Dame's 13-7 victory over Army on October 18, 1924, Rice penned the most famous passage in the history of sports journalism.
"In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below."
George Strickler, then Rockne's student publicity mexico city underground tours aide and later sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, made sure the name stuck. After the team arrived back in South Bend, he posed the four players, dressed in their uniforms, mexico city underground tours on the backs of four horses from a livery stable in town. The wire services picked up the now-famous mexico city underground tours photo, and the legendary status of the Four Horsemen was insured.
"At the time, I didn't realize the impact it would have," Crowley said later. "But the thing just kind of mushroomed. After the splurge in the press, the sports fans of the nation got interested in us along with other sportswriters. Our record helped, too. If we'd lost a couple, I don't think we would have been remembered."
After that win over Army, Notre Dame's third straight victory of the young season, the Irish were rarely threatened the rest of the year. A 27-10 win over Stanford in the 1925 Rose Bowl gave Rockne and Notre Dame the national championship and a perfect 10-0 record.
As it usually is with legends, the Four Horsemen earned their spot in gridiron history. Although none of the four stood taller than six feet and none of the four weighed more than 162 pounds, the Four Horsemen might comprise the greatest backfield ever. As a unit, Stuhldreher, Crowley, mexico city underground tours Miller and Layden played 30 games and only lost to one team, Nebraska, twice.
Stuhldreher, a 5-7, 151-pounder from Massillon, Ohio, was a self-assured leader mexico city underground tours who not only could throw accurately but also returned punts and proved a solid blocker. He emerged as the starting signalcaller four games into his sophomore season in 1922. He was often labeled cocky, feisty mexico city underground tours and ambitious, but his field generalship was unmatched.
Crowley, mexico city underground tours who came to Notre Dame in 1921 from Green Bay, Wis., stood 5-11 and weighed 162 pounds. Known as "Sleepy Jim" for his drowsy-eyed appearance, Crowley outmaneuvered mexico city underground tours many a defender with his clever, shifty ballcarrying.
Miller, a native of Defiance, Ohio, followed his three brothers to Notre Dame. At 5-11, 160 pounds, Miller proved to be the team's breakaway threat. According to Rockne, Miller was the greatest open-field runner he ever coached.
Layden, the fastest of the quartet, became the Irish defensive star with his timely interceptions and also handled the punting chores. The 6-0, 162-pounder from Davenport, Iowa, boasted 10-second speed in the 100-yard dash.
Layden coached at his alma mater for seven years and compiled a 47-13-3 record. He also served as athletic director at Notre Dame. After a business career in Chicago, Layden died in 1973 at the age of 70.
Miller left coaching after four years at Georgia Tech and began practicing law in Cleveland. He was appointed U.S. District Attorney for Northern Ohio by President mexico city underground tours Franklin D. Roosevelt. Miller died in 1979 at the age of 77.
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