For nine innings this summer, The Denver Post will share stories that capture our state’s love of baseball. We spend the seventh inning in the stands with fans enjoying a revered baseball tradition.
It’s a July Friday evening in Colorado Springs, and the ballpark is packed with sweet old couples and chirpy children and weak-willed mothers who, when the cotton candy guy strides by, are reduced to automated teller matriarchs.
I’m here to experience the seventh-inning stretch.
I’m here to see how they cook it up down here, at a minor-league park.
I’m here to belt out “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.