All Star Photo Dump

All Star photo dump, roughly in chronological order. Pitcures I had yet to share. Wednesday July 10 first rehearsal: view of the big red all star star from the dugout (above).

For a while we sat in the stands behind the dugout, for a long while. Thought I would get sunburned. Pretty sure this was Thursday. 

They are placed out the home run derby furniture.  

Big red under the stands, at the back of the players parking lot. Where we hung out during down time.

Big Red sat across from the middle section of the black home run derby stage. Looks quite different when lit up with smoke and fire shooting off. 

My office - the Brew Office, a cooler where the beer is chilled.  

Watching batting practice before Friday's HBCU game. 

Before the futures game Saturday afternoon, my teammates pushed out the columns to the dugouts, shown here spouting smoke during player introductions. 

Look close and you can see me and Beau at the far right, watching the HBCU game on Friday evening. That's me in the Atlanta Black Crackers cap. Earlier one of the temp workers recognized my cap choice, and gave me an approving nod.  

My view of the last inning of Saturday night's celebrity game.

Earlier Sunday morning, Dale Murphy was the special guest that Capital One card owners could meet. This was taken moments before Dale was besieged by the fans. 

Sure the Hall of Fame had a jackie Robinson jersey on display, as well as a Hank Aaron jersey. I was most excited to see this 1976 Braves jersey worn by pitcher Dick Ruthven. 

Since the big red stage was deconstructed Tuesday night after the game, I meant to take one of these star stickers as a souvaneer. But I forgot. 

Some of the team, awaiting instructions during rehearsal. My new pal Beau at left in sunglasses. Dude in the navy Braves t-shirt at far right kept dropping his phone while we were pushing the stages off the field. 

Monday July 14: home run derby stage into position for the morning rehersal. Fellow in green was one of our leaders. He was getting in over 20000 steps per day. We'd often compare.

During lunch breaks Hitomi Okamoto (white cap) would race home near the Big Chicken to prepare lunch for her family. Before we'd push the stages she would spend plenty of time stretching. She kept cool with her traditional fan. Samantha (pink dress) was another of the mothers with kids at home.  

All the signage under the stadium had been covered with All Star signage. Of all the various friendships that developed during our week together as a team, one interesting relationship was between the lady on her phone below, and the guy in the black t-shirt. They could've been friends before, though. 

Season ticket holders practicing with the flag. 

Monday morning: Millie enjoyed sneaking behind the display of mascots.

Batting helmet.

Face painting. 

When finished, both Shivonne and Millie smiled brightly and thanked the face painter. 

Our first view of the all star game.

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Below: another shot of me actually working: stretching the cables from the dugout to the stage, and covering the cables with turf. You can spot me while the talking heads are discussing which home run was most historic.