I had an interesting 4th. After the normal hometown parade thing, we headed off to Living History Farms. For those that live in the midwest, LHF's is a large area of land that a rich farm family from the 1800's donated for historical purposes. They actually have an old town just like the movies with bank, newspaper, church, drug store, etc... Sometimes I think I'm in an old Clint Eastwood movie.
Anyway, LHF has a traveling baseball team that is based on baseball of the late 1800's. Our church played them in one of their friendly practices. We had to wear the old wool/cotton uniforms, could not wear gloves, and had to wear these shoes with no tread on the bottom. In addition, we had to follow 1800's rules. For ex., if you caught the ball after one bounce, the person is out. It was very interesting, and I discovered how out of shape I was.
