Very good–lots going on pre-game and between innings. I’m taken by Pete Vonachen’s smiling statue. Very good, with downtown, Caterpillar, and Harry Caray. Since family gatherings will likely take me back to Central Illinois with some frequency, I’ll likely be back there, and I’m glad about that. The architecture is fairly typical for recent minor-league ballparks, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, since it means the lovely views and loads of places to picnic. I’d imagine that actual Peorians are divided between Cubs and Cardinals fans, but Caray announced for both during his career, and fans of any team can’t help but sing along. The seventh-inning stretch singing was led by a video of Harry Caray, thus playing into both the fact that the Chiefs are a Cubs affiliate and, more importantly, that we’re in Illinois. In the “is there any question where you are in the world” department, there’s a massive building for Caterpillar Tractors, one of the cornerstones of the Peoria economy, right beyond the left-field wall. There’s a lot going for O’Brien Field as a place to see a ballgame. “YMCA” subsequently played, and the mascot (some ursine creature) noticed that I was singing along to the verses and not merely Another cousin, Rick, and I sat in the second row behind the Madison Hatters’ dugout and lightly heckled players (I was younger and stupider then) whose names we thought were stupid. I went to a game there in 1994, as I stopped to visit my Peoria-based grandmother as I moved to Pittsburgh. My first visit to O’Brien Field was not my first visit to a Peoria Chiefs game. I would like to aver that his eventual endodontic practice will not be impacted by his knowledge, or lack thereof, of that word. Right there in the midst of the baseball game, Luke suddenly announced that he could not recall the definition of the word “aver,” and fled for home. Baseball, although this was usually only done for press consumption. Born in Peoria, Illinois, he was often dubbed 'Peorias Mr. I spent part of the day helping him memorize vocabulary words that begin with the letters A through D. (Aug June 10, 2013) was an American businessman and Minor league baseball team owner. Alas, as much as I like him, I can’t say the same (in the way of endurance) for my young, robust cousin Luke, who fled after about five innings.
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