The I-35 portion of The Great Baseball Ride continued after another nice nights stay at a HoJo. We made the three and a half or so hour drive down from Dallas to Houston in true Judges fashion by us arriving 5 ½ hours after departure. We had no expectation on doing anything in Houston other …
The Great Baseball Ride: Game 14; Houston Astros. Read More »
“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 …
The Great Baseball Ride: Game 13; Texas Rangers. Read More »
“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 …
The Great Baseball Ride: Deadwood and Mount Rushmore. Read More »
“Well, it took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball, and I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.” — Hank Aaron We got up and left our room in Anaheim (Orange) at the HoJo. We really enjoyed this hotel. Big room, updated, clean, nice pool, close to the stadium, and …
The Great Baseball Ride: Route 66, Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Saint Diego. Read More »
“Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.’ Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I’m concerned.” – Gene Autry, Actor and former owner of the Anaheim (California) Angels. We woke up this morning in Kingman, AZ. Kingman is a …
The Great Baseball Ride: Game 7; Anaheim Angels and More Route 66. Read More »
Yesterday was a travel day and all Route 66. The goal for the day was to catch more sites along the Route, and eventually make it to our overnight stop in Flagstaff, AZ so as to get closer to our next MLB game; the Arizona Diamond Backs. The first site seeing stop was still in …