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…
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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…
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…
10 Stadiums 10 Days 