Baseball and a Wedding-(Part 1)
So, I opened my newspaper this morning to an article written by Vin Mannix, and there was a picture of a local couple standing on the pitchers mound at McKechnie Field in Bradenton, the spring training home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. They will be married at home plate on Saturday, February 6th. It seems the couple, Laura D. and Damon Z., met while playing softball and their second date was at McKechnie Field. They dated for a year then got engaged, but couldn’t settle on a wedding location.
Damon is a native of Franklin, PA and a lifelong Pirates fan, as are most of his family. The couple wanted an outdoor wedding and Laura, a third grade teacher, thought-how about the ballpark? Damon agreed and they approached the Pirates organization with the idea, and they said yes! The details are pretty cool. The groomsmen will be given baseball bats from the Pirates. (I’m not sure why, as this reminds me of a caveman whacking a lady over her head with his club and dragging her off to his cave, but that’s just me.) See part 2 tomorrow…