cyberdan (SoCA)
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About two years ago I formally asked permission to hunt an old baseball field. It is a vacant lot owned by a modern financial center next door. I wrote a letter to the property manager (a woman) and she never replied. So I decided to call her, she said "Oh, no you can't hunt there you might step in a hole and break your leg or a snake might bite you"
Yesterday's weather was really nice so I decided to go hunting after lunch. This field is about a mile north of where I live and as I drove past I noticed the chain link gate was wide open. So I stopped to look around. In the parking lot I saw the security guards truck and went over to talk to him. He said no problem hunting the place and I can come back any Sunday.
I did not know the history of this baseball park, it has always been closed and locked up. The entire infield is filled with sage brush (tumbleweeds)and the outfield is completely dead. I was sure it had never been hunted before. I was either wrong or baseball players from the past never lost anything. I found several memorial pennies from the 1970s and one Wheatie (haven't cleaned it yet to read the date)I only stayed there two hours but at least I got to hunt there.
Today (a bit slow at the office) I got to do some research on the field and it's short bit of fame.
Believe it or not (now I am in SoCA) the Cincinnati Reds had a baseball school there in 1940. the Red's wanted to form an expansion team. So, for three months there was a farm team called the Brea Reds. Then the team just disappeared and not even the local paper could figure out what happened.
I thought this was the park where, in 1924, an exhibition game was played were local pitcher Walter Johnson played against Babe Ruth.
(Walter grew up in the next town over and played high school baseball) But I found out that field is long gone, it was one block south of this and is now a mall parking lot.
Yesterday's weather was really nice so I decided to go hunting after lunch. This field is about a mile north of where I live and as I drove past I noticed the chain link gate was wide open. So I stopped to look around. In the parking lot I saw the security guards truck and went over to talk to him. He said no problem hunting the place and I can come back any Sunday.
I did not know the history of this baseball park, it has always been closed and locked up. The entire infield is filled with sage brush (tumbleweeds)and the outfield is completely dead. I was sure it had never been hunted before. I was either wrong or baseball players from the past never lost anything. I found several memorial pennies from the 1970s and one Wheatie (haven't cleaned it yet to read the date)I only stayed there two hours but at least I got to hunt there.
Today (a bit slow at the office) I got to do some research on the field and it's short bit of fame.
Believe it or not (now I am in SoCA) the Cincinnati Reds had a baseball school there in 1940. the Red's wanted to form an expansion team. So, for three months there was a farm team called the Brea Reds. Then the team just disappeared and not even the local paper could figure out what happened.
I thought this was the park where, in 1924, an exhibition game was played were local pitcher Walter Johnson played against Babe Ruth.
(Walter grew up in the next town over and played high school baseball) But I found out that field is long gone, it was one block south of this and is now a mall parking lot.