When geek worlds collide

[truepenny]

Fountain Pen Hopsital, who regularly send me pen pr0n, include in their latest catalogue, Historic Pen Editions' Stadium Seats Collection. You can get a pen made out of seats from Shea Stadium (N.Y. Mets, 1964), Dodger Stadium (L.A. Dodgers, 1962), Ebbets Field (Brooklyn Dodgers, 1913), Fenway Park (Boston Red Sox, 1912 and still going strong), Griffith Stadium (Washington Senators, 1911), Polo Grounds (N.Y. Giants, 1891), and Yankee Stadium (N.Y. Yankees, 1923). My fountain pen geekery, my baseball geekery, and my history geekery* have collided violently, and I WANT ONE.

Of course, I am not actually a fan of any of the teams whose stadium seats have been made into pens, but that hardly matters. (And we will not enter into the question of whether I need another fountain pen. Shut up.) I'm torn between Fenway Park, because it's STILL THERE, and Griffith Stadium, because it ISN'T still there, and neither is its baseball team--or teams, since the Wikipedia entry tells me it was also a part-time venue for a Negro League team called the Homestead Grays. Torn, I tell you!

Baseball! History! Fountain pens!

(This has been a public (dis)service announcement for anyone else who may find their geekeries colliding here, too.)

ETA: I went with Griffith Stadium.

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*Can I just say that I hope someday Major League Baseball is REALLY FUCKING SORRY that they've destroyed all their historic ballparks? Dodger Stadium is the third-oldest baseball stadium in America and it's ONLY FORTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD.

Comments

[meril.livejournal.com]

I agree with the above poster. Nobody wants Metrodome seats. (And it will still be in use after 2010, anyway, but thankfully not for baseball.) Besides, plastic. That's also probably why no Milwaukee County Stadium seats, as I dimly recall that they probably weren't wooden.