The next morning we were up and at it early again to head to Joyce’s place for morning tea! Joyce is an original member of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, with the most amazing collection of memorabilia. The highlight was seeing Kez get dressed up in Joyce’s original uniform. She looked so cute, but swore to murder anyone who put photos of her in the dress on Facebook.
From Joyce’s we headed out to Divine’s, so the juniors could spend any money their parents had left over. We’re pretty sure some second mortgages were taken out to cover the long line of baseball gear rolling out of that shop.
Finally, we were on our way to Milwaukee for a tour of the Milwaukee Brewers stadium! What an amazing experience! The only downfall was the tour guide who kept getting sidetracked telling us stories about himself, and his own ball career. He also copped a feel of Huckstadt’s goodies, who didn’t enjoy posing with him in the outfield and much as he did.
On the way out again later, Rob pulled over at a small wooden building and announced the need to have an “urgent meeting” with the senior players. We all abandoned the juniors, climbed out of the bus and followed him to the building, wondering what we all could have possible done to piss him off enough to pull over in the middle of nowhere. It was only once we were inside that he announced that the “urgent meeting” was actually a quick stop in a bar called the Wooden Nickel, where he quickly had the bartender serve us up a round of drinks. It was a good pre-curser to the minor league game we headed to straight after. The Fielders, a team partially owned by Kevin Costner, provided us with great entertainment, and “candy floss” that tasted like fish. Most exciting was the concept of being able to watch a good game of baseball, in a carnival atmosphere in the middle of the week. It’s certainly something that we’d love to be able to go do in Australia and was a great end to a great day!
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