This is a little belated, but I had a good American Fourth of July evening at the ballpark. Nick had to cover the Spokane Indians game, so we made the best of it, and they really put on quite a good show.

The photo is from before the game when a group from Fairchild Air Force Base unfurled an enormous American flag in the outfield for the national anthem and a helicopter flyover. It doesn’t look so giant in the picture, but look at how many people were needed to hold it up. It made me wonder where they keep flags that big. What’s the largest size of American flag that the military owns?

The fireworks were lit manually, which was pretty cool. You could see the technicians’ shadows scurrying around out in the lot beyond the stadium wall. Some of the fireworks were a little low and from the press box you could see burning bits of fireworks hitting the ground and sitting there emitting blue or red sparks until they burned out.

The best part of fireworks was when they played the song that’s in “Sandlot” during the Fourth of July scene.