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.
Continue ReadingBallpark Envi is an iPhone app that could be a reasonably useful tool in the arsenal of a ballpark roadtripper. It contains a library of photographs from every active MLB park, and as well as seating charts for each one. It seems like a no-brainer, but there are two drawbacks to keep in mind.
Continue ReadingThe itinerary in the right sidebar under "2010" is not theoretical, and is all one trip. This journey will take place after the All Star break, and will take me to Anaheim, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland (I know it's a dump, but we're there and the Red Sox are in town), Phoenix and then finishing up at Dodger Stadium.
Continue ReadingYou have looked at my list, and you are thinking that I am insane, or smoking crack, or seriously deluded. You will ask how I can rank X above Y, how I could even THINK to say that A was better than B, that I am wrong, oh so very wrong. But the beauty of this is that there is no right and wrong, really, because it is all subjective. It took me months to get this list together and it will only last until I visit the next new park. The wheels will completely come off this bus once I get to the West Coast (although I forsee being disappointed by Dodger Stadium, underwhelmed by Chase and PETCO, nervous about AT&T, and completely neutral towards Oakland [I saw the Rolling Stones there, I know it's a dump]). Even within my own house there is no agreement on the order of ballparks, so I do not expect there to be a large wave of agreement here among the greater baseball-loving public.
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