It started with my love for the Brooklyn Dodgers back in the 1940's.
Then after the team moved to Los Angeles, it was the Los Angeles Dodgers.
This, I might point out, was before the Arizona Diamondbacks came into existence.
I continued to follow the Dodgers even after we moved south of the border to Mexico.
I was able to follow the team there on television and a bookstore in Guadalajara even sold the Los Angeles Times.
So in 1988 when the team won the World Series I was following every play while wearing my Dodgers tee shirt.
And I sent this picture back to my friends in Phoenix who were supporting different teams.
That is the face of a happy baseball fan.
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I've been to Dodger Stadium a bunch of times since I've lived out here. Once you get past paying 24 bucks for two beers and two hot dogs it's a great experience.
Like the new bar header! Downtown?
Great photo, still looking skinny.
No, it's at Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen in Phoenix. Great restaurant.
You look like a mere shadow of yourself in that picture. Were you on a diet of some sort or was it the water down there?
I got a severe case of Montezuma's Revenge when we first got down there and couldn't eat anything and keep it down. Lost about 50 pounds. Then when I finally was o.k., I gained about 20-25 back and stayed at that weight (around 175) until we came back four years later. I was skinny but perfectly healthy. But I learned later that on our first trip back to the states, old friends were speculating about whether I had got AIDS!
I don't want to admit what I was doing the last time I wore an expression comparably happy.
Fond memories of Pappadeaux in Galston TX. The boys were underage, but we ordered them up beers anyway and no one said a thing. They'll never forget it!
Yeah....if you'd given me the info of the time and place, I might have guessed that. You just look a bit more thin than fit in the pictures. Look at you now, though.....picture of health.
As a life long Yankee fan, I know that feeling very well.
Last couple of years I'm just not into the game like I used to be.
What a great fan you are!
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