I love baseball. I didn’t always, as a kid I found it boring and never looked forward to family trips to old Rangers Stadium. The team was bad, the stadium was ugly, the grass was brown and I didn’t understand the sport well enough to get into it. That all changed the first time I walked into the Rangers new stadium, The Ballpark at Arlington. The stadium was beautiful, the grass was actually green and the team was pretty good; I was hooked!
I spent many a summer day at that stadium cheering on my Rangers. I loved sitting with my own kids and watching Rusty Greer and Juan Gonzalez in the outfield, Will Clark at first base and the best catcher to ever play the game, Pudge Rodriguez behind the plate. (I may be a little biased there) I spent the evenings I wasn’t at the park listening to Tom Grieve and Mark Holtz on TV or listening to Eric Nadel on the radio and just soaking in as much baseball info as I could. When it wasn’t baseball season I loved to pick up books about baseball and read through them, in fact for many years I had a subscription to Baseball Weekly and read it cover to cover every week.
On of my favorite books was a little tome called “The Baseball Hall of Shame”. It was just filled with stories of all the odd people that had played the game and all the crazy things that happened to them. (Like when”Big Papi” Ortiz put on his underwear and discovered that it was smeared with peanut butter or the Mariners had two runners on with no one out and then got into a triple play with no one actually touching the ball!) So when the book’s publisher approached we with a chance to give one of these away to a lucky winner I jumped at the chance!
This book is absolutely hilarious and I am thrilled to be able to give one copy away to one lucky winner. All you need to do to enter is leave one comment with your favorite baseball-related memory and there are a couple other ways to get extra entries also. Just follow the instructions in the Rafflecopter widget below. Good luck!
Lori Thomas
Being able to attend a World Series game w/my dad.
Andrea Williams
This is more of a family story, but we when announced to my future father-in-law that we were engaged he was so flustered that the only thing he could say was “I have some extra Ranger tickets. Do you want to go?” We still joke about going to the game.