Mik's Mini Bat Collection: Red Boston Red Sox

The second mini bat Mik got at Fenway Park is a regular Boston Red Sox logo one. He choose the one that is red on the top half and natural on the bottom half. The main reason for the color choice being his favorite color is red, but it also seemed fitting to have a red mini bat for a team with red in their name. The mini bat has the circle with red socks in it Boston Red Sox logo.

Mik's Mini Bat Collection: Fenway Park

At Fenway Park Mik got two mini bats. This one is green on the top half and natural on the bottom half. It says Fenway Park Established 1912.

Mik’s Food Scrapbook: Fenway Park

Mik did not have much to eat at the actual game, but where we ate before the game is still sort of in Fenway Park. Game On is located in one of the corners of Fenway Park, although it can only be accessed from outside the park. Here Mik got Fish & Chips. They were not that good in his opinion and he did not even eat much of them. He did, however, fill up on helping eat the brownie sundae I ordered.

At the game I had a Lobster Roll and Mik tried a bite of it. He did not like it, but that is because it was his first time trying lobster and he now knows he just does not like lobster. He did admit the bun/bread was very good. It was the same type of bun the hot dogs were on and if he had been hungry he would have gotten a hot dog. He thought they could not be too bad of hot dogs because the bun is so awesome.

Normally I get the ice cream in a helmet, but this time Mik got it. At Fenway they serve it with the most ice cream we have ever seen in a helmet and it was still only $5. The ice cream is not all that special, as it is just soft serve, but at least you really get your money’s worth.

A Second Atlanta Braves Game Added to Itinerary

When I was looking at the Braves schedule about a month ago I noticed they are retiring Greg Maddux's number the day after we already were going to the game on July 16, 2009. It has been annoying me for a while that we were missing the number retiring by one day. I finally decided we should just stay in Atlanta one more day, see the number retire, hit the road for the D.C. area, and the Nats game the next night.

Today Dad called and got us seats for the game. For once we decided to go for the best handicap seats available, which really do not sound all that amazing, as they were only $30 a piece. Should be interesting to compare the two different sections, though. I assume the number will be retired before the game, so we will probably not stay for the game since we will have already seen the game the day before.

Day 48: Morristown National Park

When I originally made the itinerary for the trip we were going to go to the Sports Museum of America in New York City today, however, it has since closed. Thus instead we avoided the big city and stayed in New Jersey today. We headed to the Morristown National Park in Morristown, New Jersey.

There is not that much to see at Morristown National Park or at least not things that are accessible. I really expected more since the building by the Ford Mansion says that it is a museum, but it really is just one room with colonial period objects. Yeah, interesting, but not much different than the stuff I have seen in Alexandria, Virginia, and at least in Alexandria they have things they knew were used by George Washington and not just things that might have been.

It was not a total waste as it is still cool to see the historic site, but it is kind of sad when the highlight is walking along the stones in the ground that show where the outline of Fort Nonsense once stood. I guess it might be a good place to visit if you go inside Ford Mansion, but it was not worth doing since Mik could not go inside the house. Of course, I understand it not being accessible due to it being from the 1700s and I see nothing wrong with keeping its historical accuracy by not adding accessibility. You know what would be cool, though. A movie tour of the house as an alternative experience like the Finding Nemo Submarine ride at Disneyland has (not that we ever have seen that, though). They do have a movie reenactment type thing at the museum and the Jockey Hollow Visitor Center, but seriously reading about the time period is way more entertaining than those videos. Anyways what really got me tired of the place was that after stopping at a few of the stops it seemed all the signs got to be very repetitive.

Car Sticker Update: New York Yankees

The main team shop did not have just a Yankees logo sticker. Dad was thinking of going to one of the souvenir shops across the street, but I decided we should just get the Inaugural Season one. It is a view of the field with a small NY Yankees logo in the upper left corner and a small Inaugural Season logo in the upper right corner. It seemed fitting to get it since it is new this year and says the year of our road trip.

Baseball Museum 10: Yankee Museum

Yankee Museum is located on the 2nd level of the new Yankee Stadium right above the Hard Rock Café. It is a simple one-room museum. It is worth stopping in at when you go to see a game at Yankee Stadium, but there actually is not much to it. The fact there is not much to it is actually quite sad considering the team is rich in baseball history. At least they do have stuff related to all 26 of their World Series Championships.

The bulk of the museum is the World Series display. This display has a little bit of info on each of the World Series the Yankees have won. It includes a signed team ball by each Yankees World Series Championship team. There is also a variety of other related memorabilia, such as jerseys and bats. The last six World Series win displays also include the World Series trophies. The other 20 World Series wins by the Yankees were before they gave out the trophies.

The centerpiece of the museum is a wall of balls between a statue of Don Larsen pitching and Yogi Berra catching, which commemorates the perfect game Don Larsen pitched in the 1956 World Series. By the way it is the only perfect game or no-hitter ever pitched in the post season to date. The ball wall has various balls signed by past and current Yankees. There is a computer directory nearby to help locate players on the ball wall or identify the signatures on the balls.

The museum also has an interesting section with ballpark seats and a model of the New Yankee Stadium. This area has a display case with a seat and a photo of the old Yankee Stadium as it was in 1923. Then there is a seat from the box seats circa 1926 of Yankee Stadium. Next is a display with a seat from the 1976 remodel of old Yankee Stadium. Lastly there is a seat like the ones in the new Yankee Stadium where the museum is located.

There are a few other small displays in the museum. This includes one with Babe Ruth memorabilia. There is also a display on the Negro Leagues, which played some in old Yankee Stadium. Lastly there is Thurmon Munson’s locker brought over from old Yankee Stadium just as it has been kept since he died in 1979.

Overall it is not a bad museum, but it is surprisingly that it is so small. With a team like the Yankees there is so much history that deserves a bigger museum more like the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame. Perhaps it is small because it was one of the final projects of the new stadium and they did not have as much time to put it together into something bigger, but I kind of doubt more space than what it now occupies was allocated for it in the stadium. Anyways still a great museum in terms of World Series memorabilia. For better general Yankee history, though, the Yogi Berra Museum we went to several days later turned out to be way better. I will get to posting on that within the next day or so, I hope.