6 minutes ago, JoeC said:

…or know what County Stadium was.

Used to go to County Stadium once in a while on Saturday night, to see Sox and Brewers fight it out. Nothing special about it, but it did have great sight lines.

There used to be a lot of fights almost every game. A lot of people would tailgate for 2-3 hours before the first pitch was thrown. I'm sure that had something

to do with it.

2 hours ago, oldsox said:

I do. I think I have a few years on Mighty Mite. I went to several Cub games against Brooklyn. I saw all those guys. Jackie, Campy, Newk. Couple more. Junior Gillum? As you can imagine, there were a lot of black guys in the crowd. Not sitting together or anything organized, just many throughout the stands. And they were quiet. No overt cheering. But you know they were moved. And, I never saw any trouble brewing anywhere from anyone.

So awesome. Thanks for sharing. I love that you got to experience that.

I also saw Satchel Paige pitch for the St. Louis Browns in 1949, I believe. My Dad wanted to see him pitch, so I got to tag along. Never forgot it, obviously. He threw a few eephus pitches, and the crowd roared. They loved him.

2 hours ago, zisk said:

Used to go to County Stadium once in a while on Saturday night, to see Sox and Brewers fight it out. Nothing special about it, but it did have great sight lines.

There used to be a lot of fights almost every game. A lot of people would tailgate for 2-3 hours before the first pitch was thrown. I'm sure that had something

to do with it.

I mean, tailgating is basically 70% of the experience in going to a sporting event in Wisconsin.

3 minutes ago, JoeC said:

I mean, tailgating is basically 70% of the experience in going to a sporting event in Wisconsin.

3 hours ago, JoeC said:

…or know what County Stadium was.

Slightly off topic, when I was a kid I used to drive to northern Wisconsin for a fishing trip every year, we drove past Brewers current stadium being built on the way up, and the crane collapse happened when we were on vacation so when we came back you could see everything that had happened and the damage. Was pretty surreal, the only worse road trip thing I have seen was driving through Plainfield after the 90 tornado

19 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:

County I grew up in and county I currently live in are in green. Proud to have done my part!

17 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

Slightly off topic, when I was a kid I used to drive to northern Wisconsin for a fishing trip every year, we drove past Brewers current stadium being built on the way up, and the crane collapse happened when we were on vacation so when we came back you could see everything that had happened and the damage. Was pretty surreal, the only worse road trip thing I have seen was driving through Plainfield after the 90 tornado

Still think it’s crazy that the travel team name is Plainfield Tornadoes

32 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

Slightly off topic, when I was a kid I used to drive to northern Wisconsin for a fishing trip every year, we drove past Brewers current stadium being built on the way up, and the crane collapse happened when we were on vacation so when we came back you could see everything that had happened and the damage. Was pretty surreal, the only worse road trip thing I have seen was driving through Plainfield after the 90 tornado

I drive to SC once or twice a year. Hurricane Florence wiped out I-40 in NC. They're building it back, but it's awesome (in a scary way) to see how nature just scours civilization off the map. Driving through KY last year, forest every where, then broken tree stumps for a mile after a huge tornado passed through. We're just ants on a log, floating in the middle of a lake.

10 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

I drive to SC once or twice a year. Hurricane Florence wiped out I-40 in NC. They're building it back, but it's awesome (in a scary way) to see how nature just scours civilization off the map. Driving through KY last year, forest every where, then broken tree stumps for a mile after a huge tornado passed through. We're just ants on a log, floating in the middle of a lake.

In 2000 me and my best friend did a canoe trip on the boundary waters, and we got there 2 weeks after a straight line windstorm just decimated the area. There were spots on our trip that looked like a giant with a weedwhacker stood there and whacked every tree you could lay your eyes on. They tell you a straight line wind storm is basically a tornado spread out over a large distance, and I believe it