Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Ballyard

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.

Overlooking Fitzgerald Field in Grand Ledge. 92/365

West Michigan's pitching coach chats with some fans at Lansing's Cooley Law School Stadium. Photo taken 9/10/2007 before a Midwest League playoff game against the Lansing Lugnuts.

Chris Kersten of the Lake County Captains, batting against the Lansing Lugnuts on 7/6/2010.

Lansing Lugnuts first baseman stretches for the ball in a game against the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers. 7/20/2011.

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.

On This Date : Photo taken 9/15/2011 Lansing Lugnut shortstop Peter Mooney relays the ball to first base. The baserunner, who's out, is Ronny Gil of the Quad Cities River Bandits; Mooney's throw would not get QC batter/runner Oscar Taveras. The Midwest League's regular season ends on Labor Day, and is followed by a three-tiered playoff that ends in mid-month. In 2011 Lansing hosted Quad Cities (they play in Davenport) on September 15 for the second game of a best-of-five series. The Bandits won the game by a 5-3 score, putting them up on the series 2 wins to no losses. They'd wrap the championship up at home the next night. ========== Two pics today. Because I want to tell two stories. Just a reminder that I take lots of photographs at baseball games, only a few of which have shown up in this project. Number of pix taken on various September 15ths: 1653 Year of oldest photo : 2005 How I Rated the Date's Photographs : . 1 Star: 21 . 2 Stars: 124 . 3 Stars: 1236 . 4 Stars: 242 . 5 Stars: 30 I've also got 10 photographs taken by my brother, who was en route from Michigan to Minnesota. They were apparently taken in Chicago.