I had my Friday summer hours today. I couldn’t imagine a better way to spend a free Friday afternoon than by walking over to check out the first day of the T-Mobile All-Star FanFest at the Duke Energy Convention Center…

FanFest was hailed as the largest interactive baseball event in the world. For five days, baseball fans had the opportunity to meet MLB Legends, test their skills in the All-Star batting cages and with training drills, view hometown memorabilia and artifacts from Reds’ history, along with a collection of official awards and trophies of Major League Baseball including the World Series, Home Run Derby and All-Star Game MVP trophy and have their photo taken with the World’s Largest Baseball…


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Walking into FanFest, it was really hard for us not to compare and contrast it to RedsFest. For example, we noticed entering the main hall at RedsFest was much more impressive than entering the main hall at FanFest…


One of the coolest things at FanFest was all the trophies on display…




Artist S. Preston was at FanFest. I’m a big fan…

His minimalist MLB ballpark poster series is awesome…

We saw Johnny Bench…








We saw Jin Day again!




For me, the hands-down coolest part of FanFest was this display of all the ballcaps for the major league teams and all their minor league affiliates…

















We saw Rollie Fingers…








Pretty neat stuff. It was a great way to kick-off All-Star Week in Cincinnati! 🙂
Click to see all the photos I took during MLB All-Star Week 2015.