Home of the Reds and IndiansLast Sunday, I went to Goodyear, AZ to watch the Reds play the Diamondbacks in a spring training game. This complex is only a couple years old, so it's a pretty nice field. However, the grandstand was butt-ugly, so whoever designed it is dead to me.
The Reds won 9-6.
The scoreboard in left field
Play ball!
Future All-Star, Drew Stubbs, after his first of two hits
RBI time!
View down the left field line
Kind of steep
Fans hanging out on the left field bermBonus: While walking around the mezzanine, I noticed an impressive looking man behind a table. It was none other than George Foster. He was a key cog in the Big Red Machine of the mid- to late 70s, had awesome sideburns and was one of the first players to use a black bat, otherwise known as Black Beauty. His MVP year of 1977 was one of the most impressive of all time - .320 BA, 52 HRs and 149 RBIs. For a donation to his foundation, I got his autograph on my ticket stub.
The autograph
George Foster, back in the day
5 comments:
All you can eat WHAT?
Judging by how much grass is growing OUTSIDE the arena (first pic), it's a wonder they can turn the sprinklers off INSIDE long enough for a baseball game.
I have no idea. It was an outrage. This was a GD baseball game, not a quiche convention. The only food that should cost $30 at a baseball game is a Kobe beef hot dog.
@Audie - True dat. Goodyear is west of Phoenix, so you're getting into more of that scrubby creosote landscape.
DD ...
did George have the Black Beauty w/ him?
Y no pic of The Man!?
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