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What an amazing day we had at Dodgertown today. Today’s game was the last home game that the Dodgers will ever play at Dodgertown.

Why is the final home game significant? The Dodgers have been in Vero Beach for 60 years, but even more than that, Dodgertown is the last remaining part of the Brooklyn Dodgers. (They trained in Florida before the move to Los Angeles, and they never moved their spring training complex.)

Tommy Lasorda gave a speech before the game to thank Vero Beach all they’ve done for the organization over the past 60 years. I switched my camera into video mode and captured most of his speech on video. If you’re a baseball fan, go check out the video. It’s pretty neat (even though the audio and video isn’t so great).

We bought tickets off of eBay for this game. Some guy was selling seats from his season ticket package. We were just behind first base, 3 rows up. They were excellent seats, although the Holman Stadium seating wasn’t designed with large people in mind.

Before the game, Maury Wills was kind enough to sign a ball for me. A few other Dodgers signed…nobody really worth mentioning. After the game, we waited around for almost another 2 hours and were finally able to be in the right place at the right time to get Tommy Lasorda to sign a ball. That was certainly a highlight of the trip.

Tonight we drove back to Lakeland and are settled into the hotel for the evening. Tomorrow we see one more game (Nationals vs. Tigers) here in Lakeland before heading back to South Carolina.

I’ve got the pictures from today and yesterday up on flickr.  Sorry for the delay on yesterday’s photos.  I’m going to sleep now.  We’ve got a long drive after the game tomorrow, so some good sleep tonight is critical.