Day 29

Day 29; Cooperstown New York to Watertown New York

Baseball hall of fame baby! I didn't know you could fit so much history and tangible memorabilia into such a small building! It's 3 stories tall with hundreds of stories to be heard inside. My dad already knew a lot of the information (he's a huge baseball fan) because he grew up watching quite a few of the hall of fame inductees play when he was a child. Some of the older players could still teach him a thing or two.

In fact there were some short videos from the beginning of baseball that showed plays and then asked a question about them. The idea was to make the correct call; however, it was in a time when the rules were different. Before 1864, runners were not allowed to run past first base and be considered safe (you would have to stay on the bag). Before 1862,fly balls caught after one bounce were consisted outs. Why? Because they didn't play with gloves; catching the ball like you must today would have been extremely painful!

So many facets of the game have changed to keep up with new advances. They were also playing who's on first toward the end of the self guided tour. If you haven't seen it, look it up on YouTube. Following the tour, we walked through town and found a hole-in-the-wall restaurant for lunch that had chili dogs! It's what I always get to eat when I go to a ball game. They weren't anything to really write home about, but our dinner was.

We took off from Cooperstown and rode to Watertown where we found a motel for the night (5 nights of camping makes a bed feel really good). The clerk told us that the diner across the street was pretty good, so we checked it out. My dad and I both had steak :) I got the T-bone and he got a porterhouse. Steak is so tasty! We then found a beautiful place to take pictures of the sunset and got back to the motel just before it started raining.

Dad found a large frog hopping around outside, and I watched a movie inside to relax. Now that we are both fat, happy, and dry is time to get some rest.

Much love, LB