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MARCH 2020 | AtlantaSeniorLife.com
A Collection of Ballparks DeKalb librarian visits baseball stadiums across the U.S.
Greg Hutchinson grew up in a small Pennsylvania town about 35 miles from Joe Earle is editor-at-large Pittsburgh. As a boy, he loved baseball. He and has lived in played Little League and remembers wild metro Atlanta for more games of Nerf baseball in a cousin’s basement. than 30 years. He can be reached at joeearle@ Needless to say, he was a Pirates fan. reporternewspapers.net He started watching the Pirates play on TV. It didn’t take long before he wanted to see a game in person. By the time he was 9, he stayed at wake at night thinking about going to a game. “I remember getting out of bed one night—I couldn’t sleep—and going to talk to my mother and saying, ‘When am I going to get to go to a baseball game?’” His grandmother took him to see his first game. “That lit a fuse under me. Every year on my birthday we’d go to a [game].” Those games were at Forbes Field, the Pirates’ home for much of the 20th century, from 1909 until 1970. Since then, Hutchinson has seen the Pirates play in two other Pittsburgh ballparks, Three Rivers Stadium and PNC Park. Pittsburgh’s stadiums were just the beginning. Through the years, Hutchinson, now a DeKalb County reference librarian, has wanted to see games in as many major league ballparks as he can as he’s traveled the country. “It’s just a situational sort of thing,” he said one recent evening as he sat in a Decatur tavern wearing an oldfashioned Pirates hat. “If we were traveling somewhere, we might go see a game.” Or he and his friends or family might travel somewhere Greg Hutchinson displays part just to see a game or two in of his collection of postcards showing baseball stadiums. a different stadium or two. Photo by Joe Earle Hutchinson has watched
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