Joe Maddon Discusses the Importance of Visiting the Tampa Baseball Museum at Al Lopez House!!!

this is Allan from the Allen Sports show so I'm joined with former raise manager Joe Madden and we're here in the Tampa baseball Museum talk about the feeling you get when you come out here to this Museum I first of all it's well kept secret I had no idea and I got invited to come out here tonight really happy I did we're standing in Al Lopez's actual house growing up that when I was told that that kind of blew me away that's that's the that's the real hook for me then you come inside and you see all the memorability and the history here it's pretty spectacular so I'm very fortunate I got invited here tonight it's a mustsee kind of a situation if you're from this area in particular there's a wall over there with baseballs and all the Fells that have been signed from this area made it to the big leagues uh it's really a special place and you can feel the warmth in here too yeah it is and then you know the nice thing about this event is that it's Unique and talk about the fact that people don't know about this place I'm telling you uh it's it's tough I mean I eore I I don't come here often enough um I you you when you drive through the portal here and you come on up in this area you're definitely going back in time I'm all about that I think that's great it'd be wonderful if we just get more publicity out there so people know it exists and you come on out here and check it on out make up your own mind but it it's really all that cool it's uh besides just coming out here the entire area is just dripping with history but you want to come out check out the museum it's it's beautifully done uh it's a simple structure but it can up be more perfectly done yeah and coming out here does that make you want to go back out there and be on the diamond again uh I'm telling you man stuff like this does this is this is um why I got started you look at right behind us is Al Lopez field the big mural of that and that's that's how I got started in ballparks like that that's a spring training facility but it's a minor league Ballpark and I have a lot of affection when I see those kind of places uh that's what the game's really about sometimes I think we've forgotten about that it's become really corporate a little bit industrialized but it's really about Grassroots and that's where it starts and what you love a baseball diamond especially cut grass and well manicured dirt your hook yeah and one thing that you and Rick BAU do a lot of is community work talk about you and Rick BAU and what you do in the community well for years here the my respect 90 Foundation we've done a lot of different things the big part was feeding the homeless uh my thanks Miss project we did salvation armies the Metropol Ministry is up and down the coast here we've done a lot of different things the um homeless empowerment program over in clear waterer area uh RV is very attached to that so we've done a lot of that and I want to get back into it hopefully soon um it's something that was near and dear to my heart so that was that's the primary up in Pennsylvania I do something a little bit different with the Hazelton integration project we're bringing the Hispanic and angle culture together um a lot of good stuff it's just a matter of uh um getting regenerate it I want to do that I'm here 6 months out of the Year Pennsylvania 6 as of right now and um uh I I need to kick it back in GE and get more involved with that and how do people follow you that are interested in getting involved well I mean the respect 90 that stuff the thanks will let you know ourv will let you know we'll start putting stuff out on um uh probably more than likely Twitter maybe some Instagram stuff uh we'll let you know then you can get it out there and in Pennsylvania like I said it's we up in that northeastern Pennsylvania we welcome all comers to come visit our hlon one Community Center it's an old proo school that we purchased with grant money and money that we raised now we're a national model uh with after school programs um adult education youth youth sports where we have uh we have a lot of our kidss now attending universities back there and doing extremely well and finally we have a mutual friend AR minda ma talk about her work with the museum hey the girl drives from braon every day needs a helicopter I mean the traffic here is about as bad as it's ever been right uh her Works spectacular the passion is obvious whatever there's passion attached to the project uh it's a place you want to normally be around um she is special I just met her tonight and I know that already so she's she's a driving course behind all this obviously and uh you're not going to find a better Steward for this for the Lopez Museum out Lopez field right there and the baseball Tampa baseball Museum it's pretty special thank you so much Joe thank you God bless thank you