Boxing Day 2019: Blue Rocks LbNA #74296
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Add Location| Owner: | GelflingGal  |
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| Plant date: | Dec 26, 2019 |
| Location: | 370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford PA |
| City: | Haverford, PA |
| County: | Montgomery |
| State: | Pennsylvania |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Not yet found! |
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| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Dec 27, 2019 |
Happy (letter)boxing day!
Ever since I was a wee one, I have always loved baseball. My father, having no sons, made me his designated boy, taking me to games at the Veterans Stadium in South Philly, sitting in the cheap seats then moving down after a few innings. Even when they might as well have been throwing rocks instead of balls, they were awesome to me.
Baseball is an old sport, they say it dates back to the 1800s, but I think it was played even earlier in history. For instance, maybe in the middle ages, before the jousting, they might use rocks for bases, and timber for bats. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, painted on rocks, of course, talked about baseball. The archeologists, not being sports fans, translated it all wrong. Heck, even in the stone age they probably played the game, using rocks as balls and tusks as bats.
In 2019 I was introduced to another team, one I quickly came to love. The Wilmington Blue Rocks, playing on a small field near the waterfront. This is baseball before all the hype, before $50 tickets and $12 sodas. Good baseball that won’t rock my budget, great mascots - I mean a moose and a piece of celery, how much does that rock? Right? Also, this year The Blue Rocks won the Mills Cup, which is their version of the World Series. Go Blue Rocks!
So my box honors this team, all the fun they’ve brought to baseball, and how much I’m looking forward to going to games in 2020.
I hope your New Year rocks!
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Hike length: 1-2 miles
Ever since I was a wee one, I have always loved baseball. My father, having no sons, made me his designated boy, taking me to games at the Veterans Stadium in South Philly, sitting in the cheap seats then moving down after a few innings. Even when they might as well have been throwing rocks instead of balls, they were awesome to me.
Baseball is an old sport, they say it dates back to the 1800s, but I think it was played even earlier in history. For instance, maybe in the middle ages, before the jousting, they might use rocks for bases, and timber for bats. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, painted on rocks, of course, talked about baseball. The archeologists, not being sports fans, translated it all wrong. Heck, even in the stone age they probably played the game, using rocks as balls and tusks as bats.
In 2019 I was introduced to another team, one I quickly came to love. The Wilmington Blue Rocks, playing on a small field near the waterfront. This is baseball before all the hype, before $50 tickets and $12 sodas. Good baseball that won’t rock my budget, great mascots - I mean a moose and a piece of celery, how much does that rock? Right? Also, this year The Blue Rocks won the Mills Cup, which is their version of the World Series. Go Blue Rocks!
So my box honors this team, all the fun they’ve brought to baseball, and how much I’m looking forward to going to games in 2020.
I hope your New Year rocks!
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Hike length: 1-2 miles