10 Stadiums 10 Days

Casey Nichols is one of my dearest friends and he’s a baseball nut like me. When I mentioned that I was headed out on my second nutty 10-stadiums-10-days ballpark tour, he told me he wanted to join up at some point. It turned out that New York would be the place: Casey would get a…

Previous game: Fenway Park in Boston Next game: Yankee Stadium in New York  Miles traveled to get here: 203 Miles traveled total: 3,620 Final Score: Mets 6, Rockies 1 I know you’ve been waiting to hear about how the overnight bus trip from Boston to New York went. Here’s the answer: pretty much as expected….

Previous game: Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia Next game: Citi Field in New York Miles traveled to get here: 328 Miles traveled total: 3,417 Final Score: Game 1: Rays 9, Red Sox 2. Game 2: Red Sox 5, Rays 1 Thank goodness I got to go to a doubleheader today; I was really feeling like…

Previous game: PNC Park in Pittsburgh Next game: Fenway Park in Boston Miles traveled to get here: 305 Miles traveled total: 3,089 Final Score: Phillies 4, Reds 2 The home team took another one today, and this game provided a bit more excitement; both of the first two contests I saw were five-run spreads, so…

Previous game: Miller Park in Milwaukee Next game: Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia Miles traveled to get here: 554 Miles traveled total: 2,784 Final Score: Pirates 6, Braves 1 PNC Park is beautiful. Every aspect of it is clearly put together with care. The views are spectacular. The food and drink choices are superb. The…

  Back at it. This year’s agenda takes me to Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, New York (Mets, Yankees, Long Island Ducks), Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Chicago (for the White Sox). For whatever reason the first couple of days each year seem to be the most brutal for travel: I have been up at about 4:00…

I had a great time at the Coliseum yesterday, mostly just wandering around the ballpark and sitting in the glorious sun. I started as usual by heading to the Treehouse for a five-buck beer. On my way there I saw a group who were all wearing Michigan State and Detroit Tigers gear, so I stopped…

Few characters in baseball history are surrounded by the mystique afforded Billy Martin. A solid, scrappy player in his own right, Martin is best known as the argumentative, fist-fightin, umpire-arguing manager of the Yankees. He managed four other teams during his career (the Tigers, A’s, Rangers and Twins). He won five World Series titles as…

The fam and I are vacationing in Palm Springs for the first time this Christmas and we’ve had a lovely time exploring the weirdness of this city. It’s weird in a good way, I mean: different from what I had expected. Over the last couple of months, for no particular reason, I had been growing…

One of the questions I get most often asked is how long it takes to plan this trip. I’m not actually sure what the answer is, as it happens over a series of days and weeks, a little bit at a time. But honestly, probably not as long as you might think. You have to…