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The Great Baseball Ride: Town Ball; Dundas Dukes.

“Have fun, you’re in the Town of Baseball.” Dundas Dukes In a town of about 1,500 people about 45 minutes or so South of Minneapolis, you’ll find a baseball treasure. Dundas, Minnesota is the self-proclaimed “Town of Baseball.” This is Minnesota Town Ball. We wrote about town ball in a previous post for the Miesville …

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The Great Baseball Ride: Northwoods League; Duluth Huskies.

“The coldest winter I ever experienced was a summer in Duluth.” Mark Twain (maybe…probably not…but maybe) After some time off from our trip which included some fun (time at the family cabin in northern Minnesota), and some pain ($2100 car repair), we were excited to get some more baseball in. We had a couple scheduled …

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The Great Baseball Ride: Game 13; Texas Rangers.

“Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.” Unknown After a couple of days at home, we started our next drive yesterday. It was a long drive, 12 hours to be exact. We were headed from Minnesota to Texas with a stop in southern …

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The Great Baseball Ride: First Minor League Game; Saint Paul Saints.

“The Saints are the most fun baseball experience you can possibly have in the world.”  Bill Murray, Actor/Comedian Just back last night from seeing games in 12 different MLB stadiums and 34 days on the road, today is technically day one of the fourth leg of The Great Baseball Ride.  It doesn’t feel like it …

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The Great Baseball Ride: Deadwood and Mount Rushmore.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who …

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The Great Baseball Ride: A Volcano and Game 12; Seattle Mariners.

“Here in the corner attic of America, two hours’ drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord, a raging river, a glacier, and a volcano is a place where the inhabitants sense they can do no better, nor do they want to.” Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: …

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