Virtual Postcard from Maryland: The Mascot of the Bowie Baysox

Louie is the mascot of the Bowie Baysox, an Eastern League minor league baseball team in Bowie, Md.

Here is a rundown of the six games played in the league on Wednesday night; Home teams are marked with an (*). It was not a good night for home teams!:

1. Bowie 10 *Erie 8

2. Harrisburg 9 *New Hampshire 6

3. Trenton 8 *Akron 2

4. *Altoona 8 Richmond 7

5. Reading 5 *Portland 2

6. New Britain 11 *Binghmaton 7

http://www.visitmaryland.org

Silly Photo to Fill Space- Waitressing in Altoona?

We don't think this particular waitress (I bet her name is Katie?!) works at a King's Family Restaurant in Altoona, Pa., but assuredly some college students who have the summer off are serving up hamburgers and fries to customers there.

King's has two locations (well, I thought there were more actually, but this is according to Google) in Altoona, including one at 3000 Six Ave and one at 201 Sierra Drive.

As for the city's minor league baseball team the Altoona Curve, who we have mentioned in previous entries during this special look at summer jobs in our Silly Photo to Fill Space series, they beat the New Britain Rock Cats (from New Britain, Conn.) 6-5 in a home game on Sunday.

In ten minutes, they will be playing the Trenton Thunder in Trenton, NJ (7:05 start time); we certainly hope there is no thunder in Trenton.

Hmmm.......yeah, that was a lousy pun. We agree. But, in truth, we really don't care!

Silly Photo to Fill Space- Summer Jobs (Baseball Mascots)

We picked on the fine folks in Altoona, Pa., last week with our Silly Photo to Fill Space entry (with a picture of a gas station attendant), so this week we couldn't resist poking fun at them again_ even though I have nothing but love and admiration for the folks in Blair County!

The city's minor league baseball team The Altoona Curve has one of the more interesting mascots around.

Steamer (pictured here) made his first appearance in 1999. According to the Curve web site, the mascot's favorite tv shows are "Thomas the Train Engine" and "Bob the Builder."

His hobbies include four-wheeling, riding roller-coasters and signing autographs for the kids (awwww!).

The Curve lost to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on the road Sunday by a 5-4 count.

Tonight, they hope to get revenge when they host the Harrisburg Senators from the Pennsylvania state capital at 7 p.m.

We would be there, but Altoona is like a seven-hour drive from here in Durham, NC (not really where I am at, but that town has its own famous minor league team The Durham Bulls) and the game starts in like an hour and a half!

Silly Photo to Fill Space- Summer Jobs (Gas Station Attendant)

If you are a college student coming back from spring semester at Penn State or Duquense to your hometown of Altoona, Pa., and you have found out that they have already hired someone to be the mascot of the minor league baseball team The Altoon Curve and that summer internship at "The Altoona Mirror" (the local newspaper) is unavailable, don't worry!

You can become a gas station attendant at a place like Martin's General Store off Exit-41 on 199 (for legal reasons, we should state that though there is such a place, we aren't sure if they are hiring!).

Apparently, this particular gas station is right across from a Sheetz, which is based in Altoona, and they now have stores as far south as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (that is a joke, but they are in South Carolina.....?!)

One internet poster said that the store has really, really great pizza but alas they offer no diesel.

As for the Altoon Curve, in my personal opionion (though it may not come across this way I mean this as a sincere compliment), their mascot looks like a cross between Marvin the Martian and Gumby!

The Curve's next home games will be from June 7-9 against the Harrisburg Senators.

Altoona, Pa., is also the birthplace of current Florida governor Charlie Crist.