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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

The Hajj Part 1

Been a little busy lately but I thought I would drop the first of a couple three posts on our trip to the Cardinals' Hall of Fame last month.
It was a cold, cold day but we made our way to the "shrine". Looking through the knot hole.

It was overwhelming and I think one of the posts will be just photos with no commentary since I took sooo many photos.




We were able to piece together an entire Yadi-Yadi has indicated he will retire after his contract ends following the 2020 season. Can't really blame him. Helmet, Chest Protector, Cleats, Shin Guards, and Jersey. We we allowed to pose with a number of game used bats-and of course we had to pick Yadi. Also pretty neat was the Owners had their World Series Rings from 2006 and 2011 on display and we were allowed to put them on our fingers. On the left is the 2006 one and the right 2011.
There were Cardinals's cards on display-there were real cards on display, Old Judge, Bowman, T205 and T206s, Exhibits, Goudey, Orbit, Topps etc. There were also images of some, and images of actual original on display cards.




6 comments:

  1. There was a Yadi game used batting helmet on sale at WWU. For the low price of $2,500. My son had it one for a minute, told him to take it off after I heard the price.

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  2. Looks awesome. Glad you had a good time.

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    1. thank you-looking forward to visiting others

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  3. Very cool experience. That's awesome that you got an opportunity to pose with one of Yadi's game used bats.

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    1. thank you, looking forward to seeing next weekend

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