After seeing the Twins at the Metrodome and our trip to Charles Mound, IL, we found a local Minor League baseball team using to 2 very scientific principals. #1 Who was playing at home, and #2 how close were they to our current location?
The winner was The Clinton Iowa Lumber Kings. We showed up to the ballpark just in time for Jason Bay bobblehead night, and promptly took our seats right behind home plate. ($7 each) Seeing how this is A baseball (low budget) they literally hung a fisherman's net up to protect the crowd, and as a result we couldn't see most of the game. With the first 500 fans getting the free bobbleheads, there were 100 left over I'm sure, we moved to a better seat with a great view down by the 3rd base bag.
The Lumber Kings were playing the cross-field (corn) rivals the Cedar Rapid Kernels.
That was when it happened... I devised my plan to finally get a foul ball.
I figured a ball would hit the roof above my head and roll down toward the concourse, and when it hit the roof I would leave my aisle seat and make a B-line for the tunnel out to the concourse to catch the ball. One half inning later, I had my long awaited ball!
With LK down by a run with 1 out in the bottom of the 7th, and with ducks on the soon to be pond, the rain came. Then it poured and the poor grounds crew had waited far too long to deploy the tarp. The tarp was abandoned covering roughly 1/3 of the infield.
Game suspended, no one was playing a game on that field for a while.
Photos Here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hambrick/sets/72157601224047650/
