I had decided I wanted to avoid an expensive flight from San Francisco to Omaha, NE. So this was the way-more-expensive but also far more interesting three-week plan I had come up with a while back, in an effort to get to Lincoln for a high school journalism workshop where I teach a yearbook class…
Target Field: Minneapolis, MN
After (another) rain-wrecked game yesterday in Chicago, where I was supposed to see the White Sox host the Guardians with my friend Jim, I wasn’t super excited to see that THIS game was under a weather delay as well. But luckily, this one was only about 20 minutes before they got rolling. I took a…
Comerica Park: a MIPA Reunion!
Over the last week or so I’ve attempted to get to three baseball games in three different cities. In two of those, Atlanta last week and Chicago yesterday, I saw a total of zero minutes of baseball. Detroit, both literally and figuratively, has been the ray of sunshine. A few months ago I started contemplating…
Truist Park, Atlanta GA
Well, our first experience at Truist Park was an interesting one, that’s for sure! A couple of months ago we started planning a trip to see family, both in the mountains of North Carolina and back home in Michigan. I of course figured that it would be best to try to see a few ballgames…
It’s February. Let’s Talk Baseball Already.
I had a chance to sit down and chat with a fabulous baseball friend Tuesday evening; Boston baseball guru Ed Hand was kind enough to have me on his show, “Pod by the River.” We meandered around a bunch of different baseball-adjacent topics for an hour (or only like 40 minutes if you put me…
The Oakland Coliseum: the end of an era
Today was the Coliseum funeral that I expected, but in true Oakland fashion it was also somehow…fun. 46,000 friends and family filled the tired, crumbling ballpark one more time. We laughed and cried and high-fived and fist-bumped, we cheered and booed, we screamed ‘sell the team’ and ‘let’s go Oakland’ and a few somewhat more…
Ogren Park, Missoula MT
You might not be surprised to hear that I have a half-baked plan, for some point down the road. OK, I have a lot of half-baked plans. But one that I’ve been thinking about recently is to do a “ten-in-ten-days” trip to all of the ballparks in the Pioneer League. The big issue with that…
Angel Stadium, Anaheim CA
This was basically an impromptu summer trip that my wife Leigh and I decided on a couple of days prior to going; the kids are now old enough to stay home for a night on their own, and we left them with strict instructions to walk the dog, be nice to each other, and not…
Chase Field, Phoenix AZ
My brother Mark and I visited Chase Field many years ago, and this was my first time back; he lives not far from the ballpark and he and his wife Michelle were gracious enough to host me for a warm-but-not-TOO-warm weekend in May. The three of us and their friend Bob went to the Saturday…
Oracle Park, San Francisco CA
A few weeks back my daughter Dylan and her good friend Laila hatched a plan to bring their dads to a baseball game to have them bond. I could tell that they were both slightly concerned that the experience might prove to be too much for us; at multiple points leading up to the big…
10 Stadiums 10 Days 