The pull-out couch Addison Barger slept on during the World Series is getting its own exhibition
Head to the Marriott lobby to marvel at this historic mattress
Paris has the Mona Lisa. Florence has Michelangelo’s David. Here in Toronto we have something even more impressive: the pull-out couch that Addison Barger slept on during the World Series.
Blue Jays fans in mourning and aficionados of fine art alike will soon be able to see the sofa for themselves, on display in the lobby of Toronto’s Marriott City Centre hotel.
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During the World Series, some of the Jays stayed at the hotel, which is attached to the Rogers Centre. Barger got some laughs for admitting he’d crashed on teammate Davis Schneider’s couch. Why doesn’t a professional athlete have his own hotel room, you may wonder, and could that pull-out have been good for his back? What matters here is not the accommodations budget of the Blue Jays, but two friends enjoying the tender pastime of a slumber party that happened to be during the World Series.
“What started as a humble spot to lay his head has now become the stuff of baseball legend, and fans can now get up close with the sofa that helped fuel one of Canada’s most talked-about recent moments,” said a press release issued by Marriott today, as reported by CP24.
The couch will be displayed from November 7 to 14. No word on how or where it will be preserved after the exhibition. Fans could always hoist it onto a flatbed truck and have their own DIY parade.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
