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Renovation Update: Episode 16
Pictures first. Video second.
And since this is where I’ll be spending the majority of my time, I will start with Home Radio:
The futon is going to go against the far wall.
As I mentioned on twitter: Yes, smart alecks, the windows will open.
A good photographer is never seen in his pictures.
Here is what my brothers in sound from around the MWL have in store for them:
Your own door!
The press box has been expanded, too:
This looks like the set for one of those old: I’m a Mac. I’m a PC commercials.
Inside a suite on the club level:
I may try to call a game from up here one day this summer.
Workers!
A view of the first base stands from the club seats on the upper level.
Yes. This photo was taken on a different day. At least the Sun was out when I took this one.
See. The Sun does come out in Wisconsin!
We tried some different camera movements in this video! Enjoy!
Renovation Update: Episode 15.5
I just happened to be over at the stadium today and I saw something wonderful that needed to be shared before we shot the next video update.
The tarp has been taken down from some of the upper level.
Here’s a view from the mound.
Here’s a look from inside the banquet facility.
A view from the club seats.
A look at the outside seating for the club level.
This is the view from the club seats from directly behind home plate.
We’ll have video and more photos next week. Have a great weekend, everyone! Think Spring!
Renovation Update: Episode 15
Just like last week. Pictures first. Video second.
If you’ll indulge me, here is my new apartment…I mean, home radio booth.
Home Radio booth
This is the new bullpen area. Bullpen as in “area for office workers” not as in “place for pitchers to warm up before entering a game”.
Inside the main office.
If you look to the right when you are near the front of the stadium, you will see the new entrance to the front office.
Front office entrance.
If you look to the left from the same spot, you will see the new team store.
Team store entrance.
And here is the view from one of the upstairs camera platforms:
Panorama!
Let’s get this snow out of here!
In the meantime, here is the video:
Renovation Update: Episode 14
This week: Photos AND video!
First the pictures:
An overall view from the camera platform beyond the centerfield wall.
View from the club level near suite 3
The entrance has a roof! Hopefully this means that it will never rain while you are standing in line.
And the traditional shot of the front entrance.
Now, the video brings it all together with views of some areas that have not been seen before this episode:
Mehring Monday: More Cool Stuff
The pleas for old stuff seems to be working. Jim Riedl dropped off a scrapbook from 1941 that includes many Papermakers photos.
Last week’s Flashback Friday covered a walkoff homer by Pat Seerey. This week’s Mehring Monday covers all those glorious photos.
In the top photo: Several fedoras, lots, of ties, one cigarette, and either a hearing aid or an earpiece for a radio (Gentleman in the lower left corner) in attendance at Goodland Field for the 1941 opener.
In the bottom photo: Wisconsin State League President Herman D. White and Appleton Papermakers President William Van Dyke.
This photo shows Papermakers manager Eddie Dancisak and Appleton Junior Chamber of Commerce chairman Parker Schultz shaking hands before the first game of 1941.
Pat Seerey is the focus of the top three photos from The Milwaukee Journal. On the lower left photo, Seerey is mobbed after his walkoff homer to beat Sheboygan. The Goodland Field crowd goes wild after Seerey’s big hit in the lower right photo.
These were the players that showed up for Papermakers Spring Training at Goodland Field in 1941.
The Smith referred to in the photos below would be Red Smith. Yes. The Red Smith of The Red Smith Banquet that is held in Appleton every January.
I love that the fans were so into the rivalry that they brought props!
This next image is the start of the “photographic ‘microscope’” The Milwaukee Journal put the Papermakers under during the 1941 season.
Top photo: 1941 when duffel bags were duffel bags!
Bottom photo: Guess where in Appleton this is.
Sadly, this is not a photo of Goodland Field. This is the ballpark in Green Bay.
Photo on left: I think I saw this set up in a Three Stooges short. Photo on right: This reminds me of when I used to play American Legion baseball.
Photo on left: Pat Seerey gets measured for a pair of shoes that he won after hitting a home run! Photo on right: Seerey reads about his exploits on a teammate’s newspaper, the smartphone of it’s day.
This is Hal Irelan, a scout for Cleveland. He is watching the game from way down the line in leftfield. Irelan played 67 games for the Phillies in 1914 and managed in the minors, too.
The Papermakers get together for a team meal on the road. I noted the Norman Rockwell feel to this photo when I tweeted it the other day. What do you think?
This is from the end of the season as Pat Seerey ties that pair of shose he won.
Superstition led the Papermakers to not shave during a long winning streak towards the end of the 1941 season. Here a few players get rid of their stubble. Not the photos on the wall. The editor writing the caption sure did.
Here are few of the players from early in the 1941 season. Swede Erickson (2nd from right on the top row) is the grandfather of current Rattlers manager Matt Erickson.
Eight lads for the 1941 opener against Sheboygan!
This is a team photo from later in the 1941 season. Note the caption again: Papermakers Entertain Ladies Tonight.
I hope you enjoyed the walk back to 1941. Keep those old photos and programs and memorabilia coming into the office!
Renovation Update: Episode 12.99
I think that we will have video next week!
For now, photos.
Reception is taking shape.
A look out the window.
And he WALKED on down the HALL!
And he came to…an area that will be known as the bullpen.
Let’s go upstairs, shall we?
Inside Suite One
Inside Suite Three
Inside Suite Four
Field view from where the seats outside Suite Four will be.
I took this from the spot where the walk-in freezer in the kitchen for the suite level will be.
Team Store! Now with WINDOWS and DOORS!
Full concourse today? Full concourse every day.
My booth. It’s covered in plastic.
This week’s view from the front.
Renovation Update – Episode 12.96
Why not start with the shot with the most interest? Let’s go!
This is the view you will have from the outside seats on the club level….except for the wire. That will be gone…the snow will be gone, too.
The drywall is up in Suite Four.
This is from where the seats outside Suite Four will be. You can see into Suited Five & Six.
Inside the expanded concession stand at the end of the third base concourse.
And the view from the outside.
And this is inside the expanded Brew City Grill at the end of the First Base Concourse.
A look inside the Boss’s office.
The is the view of the reception area from the reception desk.
Paint in the team store.
This is the new weight room for the team. The floor has been poured. Hope it was okay to walk on it.
The view from the beach.
And the view from the front of the stadium.
Thank you, Bob Bruehl
Bob Bruehl stopped by the temporary offices of the Timber Rattlers on Monday with a folder and something else under his arm. Mr. Bruehl, a bat boy for the Appleton Foxes in 1964, said that he was clearing some stuff out of his house and asked if we would like to have what he didn’t need anymore.
We saw what he had and we said yes.
If you remember this Mehring Monday column from this past December, we are looking for items from the history of Appleton baseball to help decorate the newly renovated Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium. I would like to think that Mr. Bruehl read that column and decided to bring the items below in to us. But, if he didn’t, that’s fine, too.
Thank you, sir. We will find a place for these pieces of Appleton Baseball History.
Here is a photo of an old Foxes Seat Cushion and a 1984 Foxes program with some autographs.
John Cangelosi and Sal Rende signed the program. Channel 5 and Valley Bank sponsored the seat cushion.
In the folder, were photos of Foxes teams from 1963, 1964, 1967, and 1969. The teams of 1964, 1967, and 1969 won the Midwest League pennant.
The Foxes were an affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles at the time.
Still an Orioles affiliate in 1964. But, what did Sparky Lyle do to deserve that?
The Foxes were affiliated with the Chicago White Sox in 1967.
The individual photos above the team photo are for players that could not be in the team photo due to military service or being assigned to – or promoted from – the team after the photo. was taken.
Renovation Update: Episode 12.94
Lots to get to today. Drywall! Insulation! Concrete! SNOW! Let’s go!!!
This is the view from what will be my office.
The suite level is a hive of activity.
The walls are going up for suites four, five, and six.
This is a door to the kitchen on the upper level.
They did that on purpose.
Really?
Hey! There’s no beer in here! It’s just the third base concession stand.
Speaking of concession stands….This one at the end of the first base concourse is getting improvements, too.
Did I mention that it snowed on Wednesday?
The work area in the front office.
Here’s a different view of the front office.
First photo of the new weight room for the players. There will be lights in here.
Here’s another look at the old suites.
And the view from the font.
Renovation Update: Episode 12.75
I am still without a videographer. However, JP Cadorin of Sports32 was at the stadium on Wednesday to work on a story for next week’s show. Check your local listings!
Your musical choices today Yes or David Bowie or Little River Band
For now….Photographs! (Click for larger version)
Don’t tell anyone, but I found a hole in the canvas and got this shot of the field from what would be the outside seating area of Suite Two.
The concrete floor has been poured on the entire upper level…except for the outside seating.
This is a look inside Suite Five from its back wall.
Lots, lots more after the break!
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