In a few short weeks I’ll have lived in Rhode Island for seven years. I moved out here in 2015 to be with my girlfriend at the time and since then I’ve fallen in love with this silly little state and all that it can possibly offer. My love has even gone as far as majoring in this state’s history for my undergraduate degree, working for the City Archives in the state’s capitol, and finally switching my driver’s license from WA to RI even though I took a banger of a headshot for the former.
As for baseball and Rhode Island, Babe Ruth made a pit stop playing for the Providence Grays before he shipped up to Boston, Davey Lopes grew up here before going on to be a 4-time All-Star and 2-time World Series Champion, and most recently Jeremy Peña was walking around his high school not even a mile from where I live.