What a destructive day!
March 26 is a big day in sports stadia demolition. Ten years ago today, the Kingdome was imploded; this is the demoversary.
March 26 is a big day in sports stadia demolition. Ten years ago today, the Kingdome was imploded; this is the demoversary.
[NOTE: Updated, as you can see, with some of the pictures I took. I also embedded a great home video from 1982 Opening Day found on YouTube.] After having lunch with two dear friends this afternoon, I had four hours…
I’ve wanted to try this technique for a while now, but the lack of Photoshop and patience kept me from giving it a shot. But I had the hankering to give it a whirl recently, so I picked a simple…
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Everyone’s hitting the road. Two of my co-workers leave tomorrow morning on a four-city baseball tour through the Midwest, while a friend of mine is off on a longer 10-day journey covering ballfields from Cleveland to Minneapolis to St. Louis….
They’re taking down the last pieces of Tiger Stadium. The old ballpark — older than Yankee Stadium, as old as Wrigley Field and Fenway Park — hasn’t hosted a game in nearly 10 years, but it remained on its Corktown…