Filed under: Reds , NL Central , Cincinnati When I'm at the ballpark, I generally have three things on my mind; baseball, beer, and food (and usually in that order). One thing I don't have in mind is whether or not there's a Revolutionary War soldier potentially buried under the field. This is, apparently, a miscalculation on my part because a man named Ken McCracken has managed to track down the burial site of his great-great-great-great-great uncle and it may be somewhere deep under the southwest corner of Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati . The Cincinnati Enquirer article I've linked to is full of facts, but the most interesting one is that Capt. William McCracken Jr. may have been the last fatality of the Revolutionary War. Think about that for a second: the last soldier killed in the Revolutionary War is buried under Great American Ballpark. As if life wasn't full of enough little ironies, apparently death is, too. Now, far be it from me to make light of a veteran on 4th of July weekend (that means a joke is coming), but I find this whole thing just a little bit creepy. OK, a lot bit creepy. And given the Reds' history at Great American (they're on their way to their sixth straight losing season there in six tries), maybe they should be looking into hiring Peter Venkman as manager when Dusty Baker wears out his welcome. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments ...
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Filed under: Reds , NL Central , Cincinnati When I'm at the ballpark, I generally have three things on my mind; baseball, beer, and food (and usually in that order). One thing I don't have in mind is whether or not there's a Revolutionary War soldier potentially buried under the field. This is, apparently, a miscalculation on my part because a man named Ken McCracken has managed to track down the burial site of his great-great-great-great-great uncle and it may be somewhere deep under the southwest corner of Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati . The Cincinnati Enquirer article I've linked to is full of facts, but the most interesting one is that Capt. William McCracken Jr. may have been the last fatality of the Revolutionary War. Think about that for a second: the last soldier killed in the Revolutionary War is buried under Great American Ballpark. As if life wasn't full of enough little ironies, apparently death is, too. Now, far be it from me to make light of a veteran on 4th of July weekend (that means a joke is coming), but I find this whole thing just a little bit creepy. OK, a lot bit creepy. And given the Reds' history at Great American (they're on their way to their sixth straight losing season there in six tries), maybe they should be looking into hiring Peter Venkman as manager when Dusty Baker wears out his welcome. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments ...