Always room for Baseball!

It's not all murder mysteries and workshops... we have found some time for Baseball. Sunday night we drove over the Blue Bridge into Indiana and Pete & I plus 2 actors, Mick and Sam saw an Evansville Otters game. It WAS a gorgeous night for baseball and we discovered once we got to the park that the team had been rained out Friday night and at the end of a double header Saturday, suspended the game around 1a in a tie and were scheduled to pick up that game in the 10th inning prior to the scheduled Sunday night game. Luckily, the suspended game only took 1 inning for the Paints to beat the Otters and after about a half hour break our game was underway.





We were a little disappointed that it was only scheduled to be a seven inning game until the bottom of the 6th when we started to see lightning in the distance beyond the outfield. By the middle of the 7th it was coming down fairly steadily and when the Paints recorded the final out, it was like the sky was waiting! It opened up and DUMPED rain on us! Thunder... Lightning... quite a show!

This park is beautiful, and also the site of much of the filming of A League Of Their Own. They still keep the Racine Bells signs up and their cheer leaders wear the team uniforms from the movie. Very sweet.


This week, on a day off from the festival, Pete and Jeff (one of the actors in the show) took a field trip down to Nashville for a noon game of the Sounds vs. Oklahoma Redhawks (a team we saw last summer!) This is also a nice park, similar to the Iowa Cubs ball-field but a little older. The unique feature of this park is it's guitar shaped scoreboard. It was a great game, the ball was carrying very well and we saw not only seven home runs but seven doubles between the two teams!! In the end, the Redhawks prevailed and the Sounds lost 13-9. But it was a great game and we had a nice time sitting in the sun!