Scott Butherus' "View from the Cheap Seats,"
Mar. 6: If you’ve ever sat in the bleachers and chatted with the folks around you, you know that everyone has a baseball story. A first game, a favorite moment, a personal achievement — probably a story that has been told countless times over countless hotdogs. Since my back is still killing me from my major league workout yesterday, and the air is a little too chilly to make my planned return to Lakeland, I figured I would place myself on the 24-hour DL and instead share my own favorite baseball story.
My story is not so much a time or a specific game, but a place called Baseball City.
This article appears in Mar 7-13, 2007.