Hi, I'm Bert. That's me on the left. I was born Robert Brian Killian in St. Louis, Missouri. My little gray-haired grandmother taught me to love baseball and the St. Louis Cardinals---and I've never stopped. I've changed a little in that I'm far more enthusiastic now about the minor leagues and amateur baseball than the majors, but they never have distracting strikes or lockouts down at that level. In fact, my favorite team became the Richmond Braves mainly because I saw about a hundred games while I was getting my BFA and MA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. I've since moved to the Washington, DC area, where I work as a designer for the Smithsonian Institution. My infatuation with baseball manifested itself in quite a few treks around the country. By now, I've seen and documented over fifty minor league ballparks (in all the contiguous United States---except for Wyoming---and six Canadian provinces). I was there in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for Opening Day back in 1993, when the Northern League brought back baseball to the Dakotas for the first time in thirty years. The picture above is me talking on the air about my trip to a local radio station doing a promotion on Opening Day. I hope to share some of that with you in this website. I'll periodically update the features with scans of my photographs and notes from my visits. Your feedback is welcome. This is my lovely wife Linda and our beautiful bodacious baby George and me at his baptism. She's a huge Civil War buff. Our honeymoon was a two-week sojourn of Civil War battlefields. Fooled you, I'll bet you thought it would have been a baseball trip. Our child was named after General George Thomas. I told you she was a huge Civil War buff. It's amazed me on our honeymoon just how many Civil War battles were fought on National Parks. (That's a joke.) My wife provides child care and pet sits in the Northern Virginia area. See her ad below---and support my sponsor.

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Linda's Pet Care (703) 365-9675 offers pet-sitting by a licensed veterinary technician. Qualified and personable service catering to your pets' needs in their environment. Reasonable rates. Serves Fairfax and Prince William Counties (Virginia). Enjoy a worry-free vacation with your pets in Linda's care. Contact her at [email protected]. My brothers also have home pages: Check out Jim, the consummate graphic designer and kite flyer, at http://www.kites.org/svb And Bill, the Zen master of computers and ferrets, at http://www.zenferret.com

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