This blog began as a way to record my musings about preparations and travels to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada February 16-27, 2010. From that amazing experience came this ongoing story of becoming a sports fan. You can follow my tales of awe, agony, and all the emotions in between as well as view pics from seasons of Phillies baseball. Along the way is a little Eagles football thrown in for fun, and even some astronomy and weather related tales. I feel lucky to have witnessed some historic games, some heartbreaking losses, but all wonderful when told from this new fan's point of view.

Blog Archives postings:
Dec 2009-Feb 2010
Olympics
March 2010-Dec 2011
Baseball and more
2011 The Phillies do again, winning the Eastern Championship for the 5th straight year.
April 2012-Sept 27 2012 Not the best season for the Phillies
2013-We wait and see!

Monday, July 7, 2014

Baseball story now archived at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish History

The museum is right across the street from Independence Visitors' Center and the Liberty Bell Plaza, which is where I ended up on July 4 (not the pool you ask? it was too chilly). The museum admission was free, so decided this was a good time to see the Baseball exhibit.
It is a sweet exhibit, with some interesting Jewish ball player lineages and a diagram of the diamond and field with the positions labeled in Yiddush.

But on the second floor is a booth to share stories. To get you started there is a video of two wonderful welcoming people giving directions in the most charming way-'You'll do great" the cheer you on.

The stories can be about history, family and of course Bezbawl. Here is the story I told
http://s3.amazonaws.com/nmajh-live/data/iys/videos/3/20073_640_360_25_544k.mp4