NOT likes baseball. He's got some affinity for it seeing how he's about the size of a baseball, though he's not as happy with the whole bats thing.
Over in Birmingham is historic Rickwood Field. It may not be a household name, but it is the oldest surviving professional baseball park in America. NOT has been to several other historic parks, including the Cubs' Wrigley Field, and the Red Sox's Fenway Park, so he's got this whole old parks thing down.
Birmingham industrialist A.H. "Rick" Woodward purchased majority share in the Birmingham Coal Barons in 1909. He wanted to showcase his team with a new park, modeled on Forbes Field in Pittsburg and Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) in Philadelphia. The new field debuted in August 1910.
The park saw baseball games, as well as football and other sporting events until 1987 when the Barons moved to their new home at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium.
Since then the Friends of Rickwood has been restoring the park and bringing in community games, baseball fans and the curious to see the park being returned to its former glory. Movies such as Cobb have used the field for its old time feel to represent a time long gone by.
NOT didn't get to run the bases like he wanted but just being here was part of his love of the game.