Guide to a proper Midwest baseball tour
San Jose readers interested in baseball just might show up in Grand Rapids this summer. The Mercury News published a travel account on the joys of minor league baseball in up-and-coming cities like Grand Rapids.
According to excerpts from the story:
The town: This isn’t your father’s
“Twenty to 30 years ago, the downtown was – quiet, to say the least,” says native Lew Chamberlin, CEO of the Whitecaps. “Now there’s life downtown. Really fun life.”
There’s also diversity in a city whose image (justified or not) was solid Hollander-conservative. Food booths at the city’s recent Festival of the Arts: Vietnamese, Lebanese, Mexican, Pakistani, African-American, Italian and Bosnian – along with Dutch (of course) and (of course) Cornish pasties. All local people.
Read the complete story here.
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