Growing up watching Chicago Cubs baseball on TV, I always felt jealous of the people who lived off of Waveland Avenue across from the ballpark. I mean, how amazing would it be to have baseball in your backyard?
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The first time I stepped foot in Hank Aaron Stadium, the AA home of the Southern League’s Mobile BayBears, it didn’t seem like anything special. In fact that was my first experience in the city of Mobile, Alabama all together. Each summer we take a family road trip down to Gulf Shores and I have always enjoyed taking in local Southern League games along the way during the trip. Our first game there wasn’t very memorable and I wasn’t sure if I would ever make it back again. Fast forward eight years, and I’m looking at the end of an era for those same Bears, and I can’t help but get sentimental.
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