Words and Light

Game 4 of the 2011 Atlantic League Championship series was called off after an hour-long rain delay.

Of course, rain delays, game postponement and a damp 50-degree clime don’t let a newspaper photographer off the hook: We still need to make pictures.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Members of the Sovereign Bank Stadium grounds crew evaluate the amount of rainwater accumulated on the field tarp almost 45 minutes before the scheduled game time on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011.

When I approached Florence and her son (below), they were the furthest fans from the concourse and from everyone else.

“This is the stupidest thing I have ever done,” Florence told me, stoicly grimacing. When I pointed out that, despite her sentiment, she was still sitting out in the rain, she retaliated with, “But it’s the championship game, and they could clinch!”

Revs, I hope you appreciate your hard-core fans.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Ethan Lowe and his mother Florence Blantz of Wrightsville share an umbrella as rain falls steadily over Sovereign Bank Stadium and as they wait for the end of a continuing rain delay of the York Revolution's Atlantic League Championship series game against the Long Island Ducks on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011.