Yankee Stadium

Yankee Stadium

As a kid I visited my grandparents in suburban St. Louis every July.  Gloriously free and grown up, I roamed about basically unsupervised day after hot, humid day.  After doing a chore or two I’d head to the drug store in town and buy as many packs of baseball bubble...
AT+T Park, San Francisco, CA

AT+T Park, San Francisco, CA

The Golden Gate The first time I saw The Golden Gate I arrived by bicycle, from Poughkeepsie, New York. Two Vassar College friends and I spent the summer of ’72 riding through Canada and down the Pacific Coast Highway from Vancouver to Palo Alto, about 30 miles south...
Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia

Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia

After the euphoria of last nights’ come from behind victory, (down 9-2 in the 8th, the Phils plated 8 in the final two frames to walk off with a 10-9 victory over the Dodgers) the physical misery of Citizens Bank Park’s first game is a distant, forgotten memory. A bit...
Petco Park, San Diego

Petco Park, San Diego

When neighbor Curtis Richins commissioned a painting of Petco Park I was thrilled. That meant going to San Diego- amazing weather, great beaches, dynamic downtown, fantastic parks, and a pilgrimage to Ted Williams’ boyhood home. 4121 Utah , the house where Ted...
Baseball, Painting and Me

Baseball, Painting and Me

POST #1- Baseball, Painting and Me Rick Miller in Deep Center, Memorial Stadium, Baltimore, 1981 During the spring of my first year in graduate school I went down to Baltimore with a friend to watch the Orioles play the Red Sox at old Memorial Stadium. The light on...

The BallPark Project

Blog Entry 1 “Doubtless, there are better ways to spend summer days, summer nights, than in ballparks. Doubtless. Nevertheless, decades after a person has stopped collecting  bubble-gum cards, he can still find himself collecting ball parks. And not just the stadiums...