by starfish on February 27, 2008
The Vero Beach Art Club proudly presents the 57th Annual “UNDER THE OAKS” national, juried fine art show in Vero Beach Florida on March 7, 8 & 9, 2008 at Riverside Park. The largest public event on the Treasure Coast drawing over 80,000 visitors. The art world acclaims this three day show among America’s finest. Mark your calendar today!
The show is free! Bring the whole family. Come browse at leisure. Over 200 top artists, carefully selected from several hundred applicants from all over America compete for best of show and first, second and third awards in each media while exhibiting and selling their original art.
• Oil/Acrylic
• Watercolor/Pastel
• Graphics/Mixed Media
• Digital/Photography
• Sculpture
• Pottery
• Jewelry
• Creative Crafts
Click here for more info…
by starfish on February 10, 2008
The Boys of Summer sat in front of their lockers Friday morning, slowly buttoning up their white Dodgers home uniforms for the last time.
They’re all in their early 80s now. But Duke Snider, Carl Erskine and Ralph Branca will never grow old for generations of baseball fans who followed their exploits as the scrappy Brooklyn Dodgers of the early to mid-1950s.
The Boys of Summer.
Their arms may be shot, and their legs and power long gone, but there’s nothing wrong with their minds. They’re sharp as tacks.
As they dressed for the last day of Dodgertown fantasy baseball camp in Vero Beach, Fla., they talked about what this place – an old Navy base that Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley converted to a sprawling spring-training ground in 1948 – has meant to them.
How it’s going to be sad to leave these old baseball fields, bunkhouses and locker rooms where they began their careers 60 years ago as young men and rose to the top of the baseball world.
Next season, the Dodgers will move their spring-training facility closer to Los Angeles in Glendale, Ariz.
But that’s next year. Friday, they took one last walk around Dodgertown with me to relive old memories that will never die.
Erskine stood on the same mound where Branch Rickey, the legendary Dodgers general manager who brought Jackie Robinson up from the minors and integrated major league baseball, watched him pitch with an eagle eye.
Click here for more of this story…
by starfish on January 10, 2008
According to published reports, the Baltimore Orioles signed an option with Indian River County in Vero Beach, Fla., to replace the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Dodgertown area. It’s not clear when the Orioles would move into the new spring training headquarters, since the Dodgers are currently waiting for a new spring training facility to be built in Glendale, Ariz.
“I have an option agreement with a Major League Baseball team, where I can only speak to that particular team,” Baird said Wednesday.
It is uncertain when the Orioles would move to Vero Beach because the Dodgers have not said when they’re moving to their new site in Glendale, Ariz. Dodgers Director of Public Relations Josh Rawitch said last week it likely will be a few weeks or more before they can determine a date, because Glendale still needs to approve the construction timeline recently provided by the construction manager.
Click here for the full story…
