It Was A Very Good Year for Some

I was passing through Penn Station earlier this month, when I spotted a young lady with this tattoo:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYe_eWL8wtJX6ym4Kv3tZ46AHn045fOgoHgh1p9XHNpqz1i_3kCe4c7B7CZA051VeticSITiXEr5D7TvSKaQIiAdVCMn8rOAaA1DFiRpMkrhC1_DPVZ3NTBpJAut92TRAeX75eisVZcWE/s1600/1908.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYe_eWL8wtJX6ym4Kv3tZ46AHn045fOgoHgh1p9XHNpqz1i_3kCe4c7B7CZA051VeticSITiXEr5D7TvSKaQIiAdVCMn8rOAaA1DFiRpMkrhC1_DPVZ3NTBpJAut92TRAeX75eisVZcWE/s640/1908.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Being a baseball fan, I guessed what the meaning of this tattoo was, but I had to ask, just to confirm. The young woman, who wished only to be identified as "Passenger Jane Doe," confirmed, this tattoo refers to the last year that the <a href="http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=chc">Chicago Cubs</a> won the World Series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYpgFwACx-e4iAyuUX-wSw6_CUPVZG53VoFJOgoTjYk8_BGbWJbC8Ah9oIVv7uuIwnYKiVkFG-R59fCpEVxn3yoSqOFAL05BS01NfBfb7k5YxpGGHAeCHDy0-ghNj8gsYbGjLUyn3fawM/s1600/1908+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYpgFwACx-e4iAyuUX-wSw6_CUPVZG53VoFJOgoTjYk8_BGbWJbC8Ah9oIVv7uuIwnYKiVkFG-R59fCpEVxn3yoSqOFAL05BS01NfBfb7k5YxpGGHAeCHDy0-ghNj8gsYbGjLUyn3fawM/s400/1908+detail.jpg" width="347" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A self-described "huge Cubs fan," she elaborated:</div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"My dad would take me to games. I ... grew up keeping score when I was 6 years old. I was the little girl with the scorecard. I moved to D.C. five years ago. Being a transplant made me cling to my home identity more ... whenever the Cubs come to D.C., I go to the whole series at <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/was/ballpark/index.jsp">Nats Park</a>."</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">She designed the tattoo herself, using a few different fonts for inspiration. The tattoo was inked at <a href="http://www.ambrotostattoo.com/">Ambrotos Tattoo</a>. She told me it was in D.C., but they have two locations in Bethesda and Silver Spring, Maryland, so I'm not sure which shop did the work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thank you, Passenger Jane Doe, for sharing your love of baseball, the Chicago Cubs, and this tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span> </div>

It Was A Very Good Year for Some

I was passing through Penn Station earlier this month, when I spotted a young lady with this tattoo: Being a baseball fan, I guessed what th...

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