Simmons Field

Simmons Field was home to the Midwest League's Kenosha Twins from from 1984 to 1992.

On the last Saturday in January the local chapters of the Society for American Baseball Research hold regional meetings around the country. (Around the world, actually.) The society calls this collective event SABR Day.

Last year (and again this year) the Chicago and Milwaukee SABR chapters held a joint get-together at Kenosha's Brat Stop. 2012's featured speakers were Bob Lee, formerly the president of the Kenosha Twins, and Craig Wieczorkiewicz, who's working on a book about the Midwest League. I wanted to hear both speakers, so I made my way to Kenosha.

Met a few people I'd only previously known via email, and introduced myself to Bob and Craig. A good day.

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Cheated (again) on the rules for my 366 Snaps photograph a year ago. Although I shot a few token pics around my hotel, I knew all along that I'd take two cameras into the meeting room and capture lots of meeting images. I published one of those as my picture-of-the-day--indeed, that photograph was intended as the daily pic when I shot it. But the main intention was to document the meetup, not to get a daily.

On my way to the Brat Stop I found my way to Kenosha's ballpark. Over the course of Kenosha's nine-year Midwest League membership, minor league ballpark standards changed enormously. In 1984 this was an acceptable facility; by 1992 it was hopelessly obsolete.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 65 (but see my comments, above)
Title of "roll:" SABR Day in Kenosha
Other photos taken on 1/28/2012: I took 37 more SABR Day photographs at the Brat Stop with my D300.