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Field of dreams ... in tattoos

Remember when you thought you were so cool because you got a tattoo of your favorite team's logo? Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but you have nothing -- and we mean nothing -- on Mike McWain of Hanford, Wash.

After a year of weekly tattoo parlor appointments, McWain's body features portraits of Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig and several other all-time greats along with the original Yankee Stadium and some old-school baseball equipment.

McWain names "Shoeless" Joe Jackson as his favorite player and the Angels as his favorite team. He claims to hate the Yankees, but ink of Gehrig, Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio says otherwise.

The homage to baseball history took about 180 hours to complete. That's a lot of time dealing with pain, but McWain says it was worth it.