Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: pregame

Midwest League, April 27, 2006; Burlington Bees @ Southwest Michigan (Battle Creek) Devil Rays Sorting through some old scans. Managers Jim Gabella (Bees) and Skeeter Barnes (D'Rays) meet with umpires Kellen Levy and De'Andre Anderson before the game to trade lineups, discuss the ground rules, and whatever. Posting this because I like Gabella's pose. The stripes are because I was shooting through a protective screen, which the Minolta SR-T 101 doesn't handle that as well as my Nikon D300. Scan by Lansing's The Camera Shoppe.

The Northwoods League is a summer collegiate baseball league using wood bats, composed of college players who aren't ready to turn professional but want continue to play during the collegiate off-season. This photo was taken at Battle Creek's CO Brown Stadium. Mr. Impassive on the left is 2013 NWL manager of the year Travis Kiewit, who skippers the Waterloo Bucks. Battle Creek's Dan Trivett, on the right in red, is much more animated. Not sure who the umpires are, though you might be able to identify them from this page . The actual lineup exchange actually occurred before this meeting; this is more about greeting each other and discussing the ground rules which are unique to Battle Creek's ballyard. Battle Creek won the game, 3-0, in a very impressive 2 hours (NWL games generally run 150 minutes or more). Original photo here . 96 game photographs here .