I can vividly remember the very first time I shot photographs of the Hudson Valley Renegades in Wappinger Falls, NY in June, 1999. I rolled into Dutchess Stadium about the same time Tampa Rays #1 draft pick that year, Josh Hamilton, now an all star outfielder with the Texas Rangers, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Rodger’s Diary – 2008 Aberdeen Ironbirds
Click the image to view a larger version.View the Aberdeen Ironbirds galleries.I think Cal Ripken’s feats are also monumental away from Camden Yards at Aberdeen, MD. His Rookie A – Aberdeen Ironclads, a NY-Penn League affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, are baseball in the finest minor league stadium I have … Continue reading
Rodger’s Diary – 2008 Lowell Spinners
From the first time I saw them in 1996 at an old make shift ball park next to a shopping center about 30 miles outside of Boston, later at a spectacular new LeLacheur Park, until this season at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, MD, I’ve never failed to have fun seeing … Continue reading
Rodger’s Diary – 2008 Portland Sea Wolves
The past 15 years or so, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to shoot photos and write articles/interviews for Boston Baseball, which Publisher and Editor, Michael Rutstein has made into a first class magazine. I’ve looked forward to seeing Red Sox farm teams every season with the hope I could … Continue reading
Rodger’s Diary – 2008 Brooklyn Cyclones
They’re not my old favorite Brooklyn Dodgers, who won all those National League pennants in the 1950s, and beat the dreaded New York Yankees in the 1955 World Series. They don’t even play at famed Ebbetts Field, and Jackie Robinson isn’t at 2B, Gil Hodges at 1B or Duke Snider … Continue reading
Rodger’s Diary – 2008 Richmond Braves
A photo of a young Chipper Jones I took at Richmond in 1993 that was published in the July issue of the Atlanta Braves team magazine, Chop Talk, caused me to remininisce about the fun I had that season taking pictures of the Richmond Braves players. One July afternoon, kneeling … Continue reading
Rodger’s Diary – 2008 Harrisburg Senators
I have expressed how much I love going to Harrisburg Commerce Bank Park to see a ball game and enjoy life on City Island in the middle of the pretty Sussehanna River. Nice things happen there. I shot my first posed photo there in 1987 and I bet you’ll never … Continue reading
Rodger’s Diary – Potomac Revisited – Memories of Old
I can’t help getting nostalgic every time I get out to the old Potomac Nationals G. Richard Pfitzner Stadium. I started coming out there when the Pittsburgh Pirates, Class A Carolina League affiliate Prince William Pirates played there in 1984. I learned a whole new vocabulary that year from Pirates … Continue reading
Rodger’s Diary – 2008 Chattanooga Lookouts
At least two – three games a season, usually at Zebulon, NC or at Chattanooga’s beautiful state of the art AT&T Stadium. I shoot photos of the Cincinnati Reds’ AA- affiliate, Chattanooga Lookouts for Reds Report, who I have enjoyed free lancing for the last 15 years. No reflection on … Continue reading
Rodger’s Diary – On Top of Old Smokey!
I love the Smokey Mountains of Eastern Tennessee too! More beautiful country and clean air to breathe deeply! My camera took me there for the first time ever in my travels, June 8-9th. Before then, I had always driven by and never stopped at Kodak or nearby Knoxville in my … Continue reading