Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: ballyard

Watching the Battle Creek Bombers beat the Waterloo Bucks, 3-2. @ CO Brown Stadium in BC. I love the August light at this ballpark. Original photo (not much different) here . 760 game photos here .

Purdue Boilermakers @ Michigan State Spartans at McLane Stadium (Kobs Field) in East Lansing. Just a few days ago this ballyard was largely underwater . Hard to believe. State won by an 8-1 score. The teams meet again tomorrow, and Sunday. Original photo here . 885 game photographs (and a video!) here .

...we said goodbye to our summertime friends, and promised to meet again next spring. CO Brown Stadium, in Battle Creek's Bailey Park, just as the season's last home game ended. Explored! #272 on Flickr [July 27, 2007, but no longer in the top 500] Thanks!

May, 2003; Davenport, Iowa. Home (then) of the Quad City River Bandits. This stadium has been substantially rebuilt--essentially, replaced--since these photographs were taken. And the team's now the Swing of the Quad Cities.

A few days back I posted a photo I took of Wisconsin T'Rats pitcher Ryan Feierabend while he was warming up in Battle Creek on July 29. Here's another view of the visitors bullpen, again with Feierabend warming, taken the same day, but from a different angle. (And here's still another, without Feierabend, dating from 1998.) Once again: C.O. Brown's a terrific place to watch a ballgame. Go, while there's still a team in BC. You'll enjoy. I promise. Camera: Nikon N90s

Madison @ Cedar Rapids, 8/14/1994.

Two of the many things I enjoy about watching baseball at C.O. Brown Stadium in Battle Creek show in this photograph: * The odd corners and edges in the place, particularly down the left field line. * The extremely accessible bullpen areas. I'm not one to collect autographs, but I like getting close to the players and taking photographs. This picture, of Rockford Cubbie players, was shot during pregame warmups in, I think, 1998. For some reason, the Rockford pitchers were the only MWL team who habitually sat on that wall. Not sure why this was. This photo was likely taken the same day as the Manny Trillo photograph I posted a few months back. Camera: Nikon N90s

On July 11, 2003, members of the Society for American Baseball Research took a break from our convention to watch the Rockies host the Dodgers. The Rox came from behind to win a rather sloppy but interesting game; since I took about a hundred pictures, it's safe to say I "saw" the game without paying close attention to the action. I do know that Todd Helton had two homers, and made two errors on a single play. Refreshed by the ballpark air, we returned to our committee meetings and our presentations. A good time.

Lighting for Fitzgerald Field in Grand Ledge, Michigan. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion and stats for July 3 .

The Tigers play their first exhibition tomorrow. Baseball's coming! ========== As she left for work last Valentine's Day, Joan asked if I had a plan for the day. I told her I had a photo assignment.... Craig Wieczorkiewicz, host of the Midwest League Traveler website , had been begging for photographs of "snowbound" Midwest League stadiums in Michigan. Although snowbound was probably an exaggeration, I set out to supply some Lansing shots. Took my phone and the big Nikon with me and wandered around the periphery of the place I think of as Olds Park but which now goes by another name. I expected I'd post a photo of one or another of the ballyard's statues to 366 Snaps , which is what occurred (deliberately vignetted, probably using Bibble Pro's Vigne plugin). I put the best of the day's set on my baseball flickr . And here's what Craig did with the pix . This, though, is the best photo I took that day--and I took it with the phone cam I'd been cursing the day before. It all depends.... ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 21 Title of " roll :" Cooley Other photos taken on 2/14/2012: As I say above, I took 17 more ballpark photos with the D300.

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. ========== 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. ========== 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.