I am excited to announce that I’ll be writing for Baseball Digest about traveling for baseball, and visiting out-of-town ballparks. My first article, about traveling for Opening Day, is online now.

Everybody has a different approach to their ballpark travel methodology, and everyone is right in their own way. I admit there is a strong hint of OCD-ness in the tips below, which are random, and do not pretend to be comprehensive. Why? Because you are not me, and I am not you, and what I care about is not what you care about. For example, I could care less about locating and visiting the team's hotel, while other people care about this with great fervor. I also care very little about obtaining autographs (except in rare occasions), but will obsess over the perfect vantage point from which to take photographs. That said, here are some of my best pieces of advice.