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   tiddlywinkler (tiddlywinkler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jul-2025 09:48:10 JST tiddlywinkler

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   People travel from all over the country to attend the Rickwood Classic. Rickwood Field is the oldest professional ballpark in the US, and they play one game a year there to maintain its status as "professional." They restored it to its pre-electronic era scoreboard and put vintage ads on the outfield wall.
   
   In 1931, The Houston Buffaloes played the Birmingham Barons in the Dixie Series Championship. Dizzy Dean, who was pitching for Houston, very brashly guaranteed a win. The Barons won. My grandfather was at that game, and afterwards he went and got a ladder off of his work truck and used it to climb up to the small barred window of the visiting team's locker room, just so he could heckle Dizzy Dean. Dean was drinking a Coke, and hurled it at my granddad's face. It exploded into shards on the bars of the window.
   
   You can rent the park for a couple hundred bucks and play a game of baseball in it. If I could find seventeen other guys to go in on it with me, I'd do it. Many of the greats played games there, so you'd be running bases where Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, and Joe DiMaggio ran bases.