Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

After enjoying two major baseball games this year and the week at the Little League state championship, I bit the bullet and bought 4 tickets to five games at Angel Stadium scattered over the remainder of the season. I didn’t go cheap. I got on Craig’s List and hooked up with a season [...]

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For those planning a quiet relaxing stay at Hotel Clark, please be warned that the Hotel is under construction.  Although we still have rooms, they are limited to the couches downstairs or an Aerobed crammed in the same room with exercise equipment, sowing machines and ironing boards.  Guests will be subject to construction [...]

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For the past two weeks, my wife was asked be the official scorekeeper for the local Little League All Star Tournament and yours truly was the official announcer.  My wife had the tough job of keeping track of not only the game score, but pitch count, who playing, who is not playing and making sure [...]

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With out of country visitors filling Hotel Clark, my wife was able to score 4 field level seats to an Angel game, so we decided to make it a guys night out with Jim, the ex patriot, Tomo, the Kiwi fireman, my friend Nick, the guy picking out his fish dinner in the Better than [...]

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I didn’t follow baseball as much as I normally do and I chalked it up to being busy at work. So I sat down Tuesday evening to watch my beloved Giants play the Dodgers on my big screen TV in high definition. After two innings I came to a quick conclusions that the [...]

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Sorry for the delay, but a family vacation got in the way. These are the Go-Go parks. You should make every attempt to attend a game at all of these stadiums. They run the gambit from the oldest to some of the newest stadiums, but they all have one thing in common. [...]

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Now that we dispensed with the no-go and so-so parks, its time to talk about the 11 parks that you should take the time to visit and catch a game. Parks 6-11 are as follows:

Jacobs Field, Cleveland - A good looking downtown park in a city that has adopted its rock and roll heritage. [...]

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These are the parks classified as So-So. If you are in town, then I would catch a game at one of these parks, but I wouldn’t necessarily go out of my way to make a special trip to the stadium.
The older Stadiums with some history:

Yankee Stadium, New York - After the remodel [...]

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Now that I have visited every major league park that is currently being used, there is a strong desire to rank my favorites. To help me in my ranking, I decided to group the stadiums into three categories; Go-Go, So-So and No-Go. Go-Go stadiums give the fan a unique baseball experience and everyone that [...]

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I have always been a baseball fan, dreaming of playing center field for the Giants, but lacking speed, size and hand eye coordination, I learned to love the game and its history. Many summers were spent playing baseball on a near by cul-de-sac then playing hundreds of games of Sports Illustrated All Time baseball [...]

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