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Fireside bowl book4/3/2024 The seventh helmet from the left, the second in the AL Central, is red - but no team currently in the division has a primarily red helmet or cap. This is where things get a little tricky. It also helps that those four teams’ logos have pretty much stayed the same since the advent of sundae helmets. Once you realize that this is the AL East, it’s not hard to pick out the last four of those teams, based on the helmet color, the blurry logos and the color in the logo. We initially started identifying teams starting on the right and moving left, because the logos are clearer on the right, but process of elimination led us to the conclusion that the five helmets on the left are the AL East: Rays, Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays and Orioles. Click on any of the team names to see the variations over the years at Lichtenberg’s site. With the help of Eric Lichtenberg’s sundae helmet resource, let’s take a look. They’re arranged by division: AL East, Central, West NL West, Central, East.Īnd that’s how we were able to figure out the helmets where the logos were indistinguishable and to realize that this collection is most likely a mixture of original 1970s helmets supplemented with newer ones, particularly for the 1990s expansion teams. It didn’t take long for the pattern to emerge. We paused the movie and started identifying the ones we could see clearly. So what does a midcentury bowling alley have to do with baseball? In a quick view of the bar, I spotted above the beer bottles and below a shelf of toy trucks, a line of helmets - a complete collection of ice cream sundae helmets. Daniel Kaluuya watches Viola Davis walk out of Fireside Bowl on W. While I’ve never been there, it just had the feel of some place I’d seek out. One of my favorite things about “The Blacklist” on NBC is trying to figure out which New York neighborhood they’re using as a stand-in for Washington, D.C.Īnd so while watching “Widows,” the 2018 Steve McQueen movie starring Viola Davis and Michelle Rodriguez about the wives of thieves who put together a heist following the deaths of their husbands, I was struck by the entrance of Fireside Bowl in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. I’m also always scanning the locations of scenes that aren’t shot on a sound stage, at least in projects filmed in cities I know. There are times when the hair on the back of my next stands up to hear a reference to the Dodgers or Babe Ruth when it’s not expected. I’ve developed this sixth sense when watching movies and TV shows to spot baseball references in the background or to pick up on them in lines of dialogue. Back of the bar at Fireside Bowl in Chicago.
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