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Carl Kline
Reading, Pennsylvania was Class A Eastern League farm team of the Cleveland Indians in theMid-1950’s. The author grew up 5 blocks from the ballpark and spent far too many evenings chasing foul ball...ver másReading, Pennsylvania was Class A Eastern League farm team of the Cleveland Indians in theMid-1950’s. The author grew up 5 blocks from the ballpark and spent far too many evenings chasing foul balls in the parking lot and either trading in a ball for admission to the game or waiting for the seventh inning and entering when the gates opened for the last 2 innings. Later in my adulthood, my dad and my son would accompany me to numerous minor league games in Reading and elsewhere through the east and south.
In the late 90’s I moved to North Carolina and found myself doing photographic projects for the Kinston Indians(Class A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians). Here is where I first discovered the Appy League charm in the Burlington Indians, Rookie affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. In the next 15 years I saw all the Appalachian League teams play in Burlington and Danville, Virginia.
Three years ago we moved back to Pennsylvania, about 20 miles north of Harrisburg (a AA Eastern League affiliate of the Washington Nationals) to Millersburg, Pa.
My photo training came from six years in the Air Force (66-72) courtesy of Uncle Sam. I combined my training with my enthusiasm for the game in the late 1980’s and started shooting baseball regularly. While in North Carolina I regularly shot Minor League, Major League and College baseball. And in 2015 I visited all 10 cities in the Appy League and I’d like to share some of that trip with the reader.
I am proud and thankful to have had the opportunity to do something I love. But I am most proud that my interest in baseball and photography may have passed on a love for the game to my son, Chris, a successful scout, first for the Pittsburgh Pirates and currently for the Toronto Blue Jays.ver menos