10 Stadiums 10 Days

The first time I visited Coors Field in Denver was in 2018, on my first Ten Stadiums tour. It was a bright and sunny June day; so hot, in fact, that I left my seat in the upper deck on the first base side in search of cooler territory along the third baseline. Remembering that,…

I visited Comerica Park, my home away from home, before any of the other ballparks featured on this blog, but I hadn’t visited since I started the blog. Hence what seems like a rather delayed story about a place I first started going to when it opened back in 2000. And even though we moved…

This is my second summer teaching at the Nebraska High School Press Association’s summer journalism workshop; I have a group of 13 awesome students from publications programs in Nebraska, and we’re learning about journalistic writing. On Tuesday, I had a chance to have them do what I love to do: Go to a ballgame and…

I woke up on July 3 thinking it would be cool to go to a baseball game on the Fourth of July. Full disclosure: I’m not much of a fireworks fan. BUT…if they’re fireworks after a baseball game, I’m in. I wasn’t quite sure how I could go about convincing my family to drive to…

Last night we had some friends in from Michigan and decided to take them to the Coliseum; my friends Steve and Angie and their kids are here on a California journey with their two kids, and one of my wife’s former first grade students, Travis (from a quarter-century ago!) is here on a somewhat delayed…

One last ballpark before heading home: PK Park in Eugene, home to both the Eugene Emeralds and the University of Oregon baseball team. Tonight we saw the Emeralds defeat our favorite Northwest League team, the Vancouver Canadians, 2-1 in a brisk ten-inning game. I’ve now been to four of the six ballparks in the league….

It wasn’t without challenges, but Jude and I made it to Vancouver and had a great time at the Canadians’ ballpark, where we saw Paly grad Josh Kasevich go 2-for-4 with a double, a run scored and an RBI in a 5-1 win over the visiting Hillsboro Hops. It was great catching up with Josh…

On the second day of our combo college tour/ballpark tour, my son Jude and I started the day in Pasco, hit a sweet thrift sale in an old movie theater, then drove to Whitman College, Washington State, University of Idaho and Gonzaga. It was Saturday, so none of the school buildings were actually open. I…

My son Jude and I are headed out on a three-ballpark-three-day tour of the Northwest League, which is a six-team High-A league in Oregon, Washington and Vancouver. Since we’re hitting Tri-Cities, Spokane and Vancouver, we’ll have seen all six teams in the league by the end of the weekend. Tri-Cities is home to the Dust…

Tom Hanks once said “There’s no crying in baseball.” But despite the fact that he’s an Oakland homeboy, I gotta say he’s wrong on this one. I cried multiple times on what may have been my last trip to the Coliseum. I cried in the parking lot. I cried as we walked through the Catfish…