Sam Pickard

Googling record number of strikeouts in a game is not a great way to start the Phillies season…

Philadelphia’s Ballparks, Part I: Turning pro Remembering the parks that Philly’s professional baseball teams have called home

The (second) first pitch of MLB’s 150th season is minutes away (MIL-NYY and BAL-TOR).

It all began with the NL’s first game at Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia on April 22, 1876.

The soon-to-be-defunct Phil. Athletics hosted the future Atlanta Braves.

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I’m not sure anyone is — IMO it’s marketed as part of a wider ballpark “experience” instead of just a snack while watching the game.

Garrett Stubbs has been optioned to Triple-A. Rafael Marchan will be the backup.

Anyone planning on attending the Vernacular Architecture Forum conference in Wilmington, DE this May?

#vernaculararchitectureforum #vaf #vernaculararchitecture
#culturalresourcemanagement #historicpreservation #historicpreservationprofessionals #architecturalhistory #preservationplanning

Matt, wouldn’t this be looking south on Broad Street from Lehigh? The drop off on the left would be the Reading’s tracks and the E.A. Wright Building at 2545 N Broad is in the background on the left.

As someone who mainly does Section 106 (of the NHPA 1966) I totally get this feeling.

Photograph of two books. On the left with a green cover and white title writing is Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic by Jason Turbow. The book on the right is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and has a dark cover with microchip patterns and a drawing of a red samurai sword.

Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic by Jason Turbow and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

#scifi #novel #oaklandas #oaklandathletics #baseballhistory

Cemetery for enslaved people rediscovered at Andrew Jackson’s Tennessee plantation Long-obscured and forgotten, the burial plots of more than two dozen people enslaved by the seventh president of the US are located and honoured

I reported for @theartnewspaper.bsky.social on the recent identification of a cemetery for enslaved people at Andrew Jackson's plantation, where overgrowth and absence from historic records obscured it from visibility www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/14/c...

Best Philadelphia team ever? How soon we forget the A’s of the early 1910s smh

I’ve never felt calmer watching a Philadelphia team in a championship game. What a new and beautiful feeling

This I think is so critical! We are so entrenched in *normalcy* that we genuinely cannot accept what is happening. Please don’t get me started on “reasonable moderates” who think anyone sounding the alarm is just a reactionary!

Celebrating the life of the greatest ever. #24ever

No worries — I didn’t want to sound like I was going after your post — I just genuinely wasn’t sure if there was a new coup happening today 😅

At least with the mantle of Hugo Chavez, I would have assumed Maduro is a left wing authoritarian? (Not trying to diminish the news about the revocation of the TPS status for the Venezuelan refugees.)

While I understand the rise in costs and other challenges, the number of independent historical societies and archives (large and small) that are in distress or have closed over the the last 15-20 years is staggering.

California Historical Society permanently closed, transfers collections to Stanford University (KTLA) –The California Historical Society, following longstanding financial challenges, has closed and transferred its collection to Stanford University. The private nonprofit organization was foun…

Founded in 1871, the California historical society has closed www.kron4.com/news/califor...

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

The #1 song in America is Bruno Mars with Lady Gaga singing a duet that I have literally never heard while Lola Young's "Messy" (the only song that exists in the whole world) is #97.

The amount of times I’ve encountered people who not only don’t know their neighbors after living somewhere for years, but actively avoid talking to them perplexes me. They don’t need to be your best friends, but if nothing else it’s good to have some sense of who is around you every day.

Bishop Mariann Budde of Washington (Episcopalian)

And this doesn’t discount Pluto either, which is tidally locked with Charon and forms a binary minor planet system! Celestial objects don’t have to be major planets to be worthy of study!

Had anyone been making #historicpreservation and/or #architecturalhistory videos on TikTok over the past few years? I’d come across random things from say 2021-2022 in the past, but never anything consistent.

#culturalresourcemanagement

I’d love to be added then, please!

FWIW, I saw this on the HPP FbB group and wasn’t sure if I qualified for inclusion — is this for any of us?

Oh that boat pulpit is fantastic.

It’s good to see you from HPP! I’ve been trying to keep an eye out for people from there so I can follow them when they pop up here.

Ha, I never realized that the phrasing might just be shorthand from “our” archaeologists to refer to those dealing with the architectural history and planning sides of things.

Don’t get me wrong, I love that so many archaeos are on here (and TT) but I’m surprised more AH’s aren’t.

Is there anyone on here in the “aboveground” side of #culturalresourcemanagement or #historicpreservation?

Any #historicpreservationprofessionals?

#crm #architecturalhistory #preservationplanning