The Hornsby Chapter will celebrate real baseball by attending the AAA game between the Round Rock Express and the Sugar Land Skeeters on Saturday, August 7 with the first pitch at 7:05 p.m.
Chapter communications coordinator Monte Cely along with his lovely wife, Linda, have graciously agreed to hold an “open house” for attendees from 4-6 p.m. at their home located less than five minutes west of the Dell Diamond (directions will be provided to attendees). Monte and Linda will be serving up baseball fare and soft drinks. This will allow time for anyone so choosing to make a stop at the Salt Lick at the southwest corner of the Dell Diamond parking lot to imbibe on their favorite libation before the game.
Chapter director Jan Larson (this author) will also provide up to 20 reduced price tickets ($12.50) for those attending. Tickets are available only as follows:
- Your SABR dues must be paid. That is, you must be a current member of SABR.
- You must be a member of the Rogers Hornsby chapter on the sabr.org website. That is, the Rogers Hornsby chapter must be one of your “groups.”
- Limit two tickets per member.
An email will be sent to the SABR Hornsby Chapter mailing list (it will appear as if the sender is “sabr.chapters) randomly sometime from 12:01 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, August 1. Ticket requests will be processed (1 or 2 per member meeting the above criteria) in order received in response to that email until all 20 have been spoken for. If you do not get in under the wire for the reduced price tickets, you may still attend by paying the Express’ full price. Note: A block of seats has been reserved for our group.
In the event that exactly 19 of the 20 reduced price tickets have been spoken for and a request comes in for two, that person will have the option of either buying one at $12.50 and the second at full price (which I believe is around $34 for a Saturday night game), just buying one at $12.50 or not buying any. In that case, the next person to request tickets would face the same choices.
Tickets will be emailed from the author’s Express ticket account with tickets.com to the recipients. You may use electronic tickets (which are downloadable to the “wallet” app on the Apple iPhone) or, if you prefer, you may print the pdf ticket(s). NOTE: VERY IMPORTANT! If anyone indicates that they want tickets and later determine that they can’t go for one reason or another, it is the buyer’s responsibility to find someone to take the ticket. In other words, if you say you want one or two tickets, you bought ’em.
Be sure to check your membership at SABR.org to ensure that you’re paid up and that the Rogers Hornsby chapter is one of your “groups.” Otherwise, you will NOT receive the email announcing the ticket availability as it will NOT be sent to the informally used hornsby@googlegroups.com mailing list.
If you have questions, please email this author at jan.a.larson@gmail.com.