oh fuck it. i just looked and only have a few pictures of cooperstown.
so let's get it over with . . .

everyone inducted into the hall of fame gets a plaque with their image and a little bio about why they were so great in the sport. for some reason (i suck) some of the pictures are a bit (bit more than a bit) blurry. so please, bear with me. i give my apologies in advance.

i guess we'll start here.
anyone watch the mariner game tonight?
i swung by air and po's place and sat down infront of the tube just in time for po to flip it on and see his tying hit in the first inning for the record of 257 in a season. then the one that surpassed it in the third. anyway. here's the big man, sisler, who he dethroned. more props to ichiro: damn near immediately after he hit that 258th, he scored his 100th run for the 4th season in a row.
mariners = ichiro, see ya, tubby. er, edgar.

moving on . . .
i read a bio about this guy in 4th grade that made me realize how much of a pimp this guy was.
bob feller. an old school pitcher with an old school style. he was one of those guys who'd kick his leg up higher than his head before every pitch. i guess they kinda frown on it now, as it wastes energy, but it did wonders for that man. 3 no-hit games you say?

next, one of the blurries. but one of the two most recognized names in baseball.
lou gehrig. sad story. and also held another one of those records that no one thought would be broken, until some chump named cal ripken jr. stepped up.
records were made to be broken.

now comes the biggest man of them all.
yup. babe ruth, the big bambino. everyone knows this guy.
however, he's also got a record that's close to being overtaken.
714 lifetime homeruns. second in baseball only to hank aaron.
barry bonds is fast approaching. haven't kept up with it, but i know he's at least got 700 now.
what's going on? damn the roids.

growing up, this was my man.
i didn't know him til he was a dodger, but he was still the shit.
reggie jackson. mr. october.
hit 3 homeruns in three consecutive pitches. but i guess you could read that off his plaque.
anyone seen baseketballs? trey parker taped over those slams with roadkill mayhem, or whatever that damn show was called.
reggie was also the intended assassin of the queen of england in one of the naked gun movies.
the dodgers just so happened to be playing the mariners.

the museum also contained memorabilia. some of it really old. gloves from the 1800's that looked like gardening gloves. i'd hate to be a catcher equipped only with one of those.
a random fact: the Athletics used to be known as the elephants. wonder why it got dropped . . .

my last photo is of this damn-near priceless pice of paper with the image of honus wagner.
i may not have the details exactly right, but after a cigarette company had printed one round of this card and shipped them out, honus put a stop to any more. now theres only about 75 known, as told by this site.
recently, some dude paid $1.2 mil to add honus to his collection.

and that rounds out cooperstown.
next stop . . .
you'll see. tomorrow, or whenever . . .