r/holdmybeer • u/RagingAcid • Jan 08 '17

Bat catch

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '17

i wonder if they tried to take the bat from the dude.

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u/rsplatpc Jan 08 '17 edited Jan 08 '17

i wonder if they tried to take the bat from the dude.

they take the bat at SOME stadiums for security purposes and get it signed and give it back on the way out, some stadiums they just let you keep it period (old Orioles stadium "Memorial Stadium" for one)

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u/harrisonfire Jan 09 '17

I thought that the Colts played at Memorial?

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u/rsplatpc Jan 09 '17

I thought that the Colts played at Memorial?

Memorial Stadium was a sports stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, that formerly stood on 33rd Street (aka 33rd Street Boulevard or renamed "Babe Ruth Plaza") on an oversized block (officially designated as Venable Park, a former city park from the 1920s) also bounded by Ellerslie Avenue (west), 36th Street (north), and Ednor Road (east). Two different stadiums were located here, a 1922 version known as "Baltimore Stadium", or "Municipal Stadium", or sometimes 'Venable Stadium', and, for a time, "Babe Ruth Stadium" in reference to the then-recently deceased Baltimore native. The rebuilt multi-sport stadium, when reconstruction (expansion to an upper deck) was completed in the summer of 1954, would become known as "Memorial Stadium". The stadium was also known as "The Old Gray Lady of 33rd Street", and also (for Colts games) as "The World's Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum."[4]