Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Leagues

Pitching for the Southwest Michigan Devil Rays against the Swing of the Quad Cities, 6/13/2006. I miss baseball. And I miss the great seat I used to have in Battle Creek's ballpark.

The Lansing Lugnuts were scheduled to open their home season today, against the Dayton Dragons at what they used to call Oldmobile Park. I was planning to be there, in my favorite seat (that would be Section N, Row 4, Seat 8--directly behind the visiting team's dugout). But of course they're not playing, so we'll settle for this photo from a Lansing/Dayton game on 4/23/2013. The batter's Seth Mejias-Brean, and the catcher is Santiago Nessy. (Sorry; haven't got the ump's name at my fingertips; I photographed the game but didn't score it--which is unusual. [Ted Turocy tells me it's Blake Mickelson.]) My next two photos show that this swing resulted in a popup, but I don't know where it landed or whether someone caught it.

Aka Kobs Field. I'd been planning to attend a baseball game today--Toledo at Michigan State. Ain't gonna happen. So here's a photo from the last time the Spartans hosted the Rockets, on 4/26/2017. There's lots of this going around. The other day my brother-in-law posted a similar lament on Facebook about NASCAR's suspended season. March Madness has vanished. The spring concert season's gone away, and summer's festivals may be in jeopardy. Stuck at home, waiting for things to settle down. Joan and I will likely walk around town this afternoon, to pick up the mail. It's also likely we'll stop at the corner store, mostly 'cause Jim needs our business. Take care of yourselves, folks. I want everyone to stay healthy.

Drew Szczepaniak, pitching for the Western Michigan University Broncos against the Michigan State Spartans. MSU won, 3-2 . The original photo's here (it's not much different). 387 game photographs here . 86/365

In 2003 I was writing sort of a blog about the Battle Creek Yankees and took this photograph to illustrate it. Non-baseball events overtook that project and it's long-since been taken down; perhaps someday I'll restore it. The pitcher's Sam Smith of the South Bend Silver Hawks, and the ballyard's CO Brown Stadium in Battle Creek's Bailey Park. Photo taken 6/23/2003.

Baseball season's started. So I think I'll post some baseball pix this week. Lansing's Ryan Noda and Kevin Smith collide after Smith captures a Nick Yarnall (Great Lakes Loons) popup in short left field--from yesterday's game at Lansing's Cooley Law School Stadium. Original photo here . 476 game photos here . ========== A camera note: This photo kinda shows both the strengths and weaknesses of the Oly OM-D EM-1 Mk II with the 40-150 mm f/2.8. This is a fairly severe crop of the original, and came out reasonably sharp. But I've lost some detail I'd likely have gotten with my D500 (using my 300 mm f/4.0 lens, probably), if I still had that setup. Some of the detail's lost to the shorter lens-equivalence; some's lost to the smaller sensor. With my previous setup--a D300 with the 300 mm lens--I'd not have got the sequence that includes this photo. It just didn't have the reflexes to find the focus that quickly. These things are tradeoffs, folks. I'm satisfied with the change, but not blind to the costs.

CO Brown Stadium in Battle Creek, 6/3/2013.