Joan (Bean) Axtel corrected me on my “calendar” post when I said that 3 calendars were on display in Buzzy’s Country Store. There are actually 4 calendars up in Buzzy’s with the 4th one being a Clydesdales Calendar. (Believe it or not, the Clydesdales even have their own webpage (click here.)
The Clydesdales calendar contains several great black and white photo’s with each one telling a different story. For instance, the April photo (shown below) is described as “Following the repeal of Prohibition on April 7, 1933, the Clydesdales deliver one of the first cases of Budweiser to FDR in the White House.”
On the subject of Clydesdales, at the O’s game that I went to this past summer with Brian Barnhill, Winkie, son Shea and Granson Shawn, a Clydesdale horse made a pass around the field prior to the playing of the National Anthem. Trailing the horse was a dude with a trash can and a broom. Sure enough, as the horse headed down the left field line, he let fly right in front of the visitors’ dugout. However, the dude with the broom and the bucket was on it and promptly cleaned it up. I leaned over to Grandson Shawn and instructed him “That’s why you go to college, so you don’t have to have a job like that.”
If you look closely at the following video, you’ll see the guys in the four wheeler following along behind the Clydesdale-pulled wagon. No doubt that with 8 Clydesdales prancing around, these folks were trailing closely behind them just in case.