1995 Baseball Vacation: Day 6

Looking back at a baseball vacation taken 13 years ago...

Friday, August 11, 1995

We left the Milwaukee area for Chicago around 11 a.m. We arrived and loafed along the "Magnificent Mile" in the afternoon, stopping to window shop and people watch.

This was the last game of our trip. We went to new Comiskey Park to see the White Sox play Oakland.

The new stadium was built less than an outfield-to-home's throw from old Comiskey, which is now a parking lot. Incidentally, we parked about 15 feet from the home plate in the original park.

Comiskey Park (now known as U.S. Cellular Field) was the cleanest of all the stadiums we visited and the stadium workers were definitely trained in proper customer service.

Their training came in handy when a fan in the rightfield bleachers couldn't handle an Oakland player's home run ball. It went through the fan's hands, hitting him on the chin.

The fan survived, and so did the White Sox, who won 13-5.

Five games in six days and a side trip to the "Field of Dreams."

Now that's living a baseball dream!