The Tour for the Cure said goodbye to special guests Mike and Suresh today, and headed back across Canada for Auburn, NY for a Sunday evening Doubledays game. The drive was scheduled to be about 6 and 1/2 hours, so I left pretty early from Detroit. What I didn’t factor into the drive was the fact that I’d be crossing back into the States at Niagra Falls on a Sunday afternoon. So for two hours, I sat at the border with a million other cars waiting to get across the border. This huge delay also caused me to be arrive at the game a full hour after it started, marking the first time we missed the beginning of a game. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Tonight’s promotion was free General Admission seating, so it appeared as if the whole town of Auburn showed up for the game. It also helped that they were giving away $1,000 to a fan who entered a special drawing.

The Doubledays are of course named after the famous Civil War general, Abner Doubleday, who is not famous to most people for his duties in the Civil War but rather for inventing the game of baseball. This claim is highly disputed, as many baseball historians have cast some serious doubt over this fact. As for the Civil War, Doubleday apparently played a very important role in the early stages of the battle of Gettysburg. I suppose this would make Doubleday a Yankees fan.