Don't like mystery caches? Still want to explore the beautiful park that is known as the Stuart Sports Complex?
Well, here's your chance to venture deep into Badlands territory and have a look at this wonderful complex. You will need to pick up some simple field information at each cache's posted coordinates, and then you will need to venture OUT of Badlands territory (average distance of about a mile) to find the actual cache. Using a bicycle, you can complete all eight caches in around two hours. Of course, you can use your car also, but until vehicles are allowed in the complex again, you will have to park at the nearby police station and venture out on foot. All caches in this series are either a small vial (provided to me by Badlands himself), or a small breath mints tin (fresh breath is a priority in my life).
Enjoy the beauty of Badlands territory!
This cache honors Hall Of Fame baseball player George Brett. Betcha didn't know his middle name was Howard. I wonder what our Howard's middle name is.
On July 24, 1983, with the Royals playing against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, in the top of the ninth inning with two out, Brett hit a go-ahead two-run homer off of Goose Gossage to put the Royals up 5–4. After the home run, Yankees manager Billy Martin cited to the umpires a rule stating that any foreign substance on a bat could extend no further than 18 inches from the knob. The umpires measured the amount of pine tar, a legal substance used by hitters to improve their grip, on Brett's bat; the pine tar extended about 24 inches. The home plate umpire, Tim McClelland, signaled Brett out, ending the game as a Yankees win. Enraged, Brett charged out of the dugout directly toward McClelland, and had to be physically restrained by two umpires and Royals manager Dick Howser.
The Royals protested the game, and American League president Lee MacPhail upheld the protest, reasoning that the bat should have been excluded from future use, but the home run should not have been nullified. Amid much controversy, the game was resumed on August 18, 1983, from the point of Brett's home run, and ended with a Royals win.
THE CACHE IS, OF COURSE, NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES. YOU ARE DEEP IN BADLANDS TERRITORY.
Within a 50 foot radius of the posted coordinates, look for an information sign. The coordinates needed to find this cache are N41 44.ABC, W088 22.DEF.
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Determine ABC as follows, using the reservation phone number (GHI) JKL-MNOP:
A = J
B = N
C = P minus O
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Determine DEF using the Park Police phone number (QRS) TUV-WXYZ:
D = W
E = X plus Z
F = R