Thanks to everyone who made 2015 special. I love you all very much and hope 2016 is great! Thanksgiving, 2015 It is that time of year for me to say Thanks! to everyone who made 2015 special for me. It was a year of adventure, reconnecting, and a new job. Got to reconnect with Austrian pen pal, Claudia, and visit my 100th baseball stadium and mascots such as Spike and Jack the Jackal. They all enjoy posing for the camera. Claudia and her fabulous sisters, Isabella and Silvia, along with their mother, Leopoldine (lower right at their dinner) hosted me at their home in St. Polten, Austria, took me to Graz, birthplace of my great-grandfather, and to their family's Christmas dinner at the Gasthaus Linde in Hafnerbach. As you can see, I am turning them into Cleveland sports fans.
Thanksgiving, 2015
It is that time of year for me to say Thanks! to everyone who made 2015 special for me. It was a year of adventure, reconnecting, and a new job. Got to reconnect with Austrian pen pal, Claudia, and visit my 100th baseball stadium and mascots such as Spike and Jack the Jackal. They all enjoy posing for the camera. Claudia and her fabulous sisters, Isabella and Silvia, along with their mother, Leopoldine (lower right at their dinner) hosted me at their home in St. Polten, Austria, took me to Graz, birthplace of my great-grandfather, and to their family's Christmas dinner at the Gasthaus Linde in Hafnerbach. As you can see, I am turning them into Cleveland sports fans.
Thankful that I saw the snow-kissed Isar River in Munich along with the artistic murals in the tunnels under their highways. Spent Christmas dinner with a Japanese student traveling through Europe at a traditional German restaurant after walking through the Marienplatz under the watchful eyes of some female mannequins. Thankful that I was able to revisit Budapest and see the Parliament Building at night on the Danube River. Thankful to be teaching with neat people like Katherine Miracle at Virginia Marti College and to be teaching at Miami Jacob Career College. Thankful for all the neat people I meet on my baseball trips including the Pittsburgh Pirates fans who I met at a West Virginia Black Bears game which looks great in black and white at night.
Thankful for the neat stuff here in Cleveland especially when I appear at a local event. Thankful for my buddy, William Fones, who took me around Southern Maryland and to ball- games in Hagerstown and Bowie. Thankful also for attending my 100th stadium at Provident Bank Park (below) in Pomona, NY and stadium 101 at Yogi Berra Stadium with a museum for the late great Yogi Berra in Little Falls, NJ.
Thanksgiving 2014
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Thankful for the ballplayers I saw perform, including Denard Span, who played in Hagerstown on a rehab assignment and Rochester Red Wing pitcher, Nate Hanson, who signed autographs on a day he wasn't starting. Thankful from my cool new job at Akron Rubber Ducks games for a baseball scouting service. Thankful again for my trip to Budapest and the Coca-Cola adorned Christmas tree in the West End Mall. Finally, my alter ego, the world famous Roaming Hooters T-Shirt, is thankful for the opportunity to meet Miss Hooters International at the Budapest Hooters and Erin at the Chantilly Hooters and all the other Hooters servers it was signed by this year.
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