Advice on ballpark trip

I am English, living in hong kong and love baseball. I have already visited 7 ballparks and will be in the states in July. I will land in San Francisco and watch Oakland and giants games before heading east towards new York. I will then be in new York for ten days. I keep looking at my plans which have the following options.

July 8th. Oakland v San Francisco
July 9th. San Francisco v Oakland
July 10th San Francisco v Oakland
July 11th, 12th. Either Cleveland v Chicago or Seattle v Oakland or Milwaukee v st Louis or Colorado v Minnesota or Kansas city v Detroit
July 13th new York mets v Miami
July 18th new York Yankees v cincinatti
July 19th 20th either Pittsburgh v Colorado or Washington v Milwaukee or Boston v Kansas city or Detroit v Cleveland
July 21st. New York v Texas

Any advice would be welcome. The giants game on the 10th is an afternoon game so I could either fly east overnight or fly in the morning.
On the following weekend I could either go by train or fly on Saturday morning and return to new York on Sunday evening.

For reference I have listed the home teams first, a habit I can't get out of being British.

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Permalink Reply by David Lasdon on April 11, 2014 at 10:52pm

The Revolutionary War was fought so that we could list the home team second. Don't tell me we fought it for nothing.

There are a few things to keep in mind when planning a trip. If you're flying, some cities are expensive to fly in to, while others are less expensive. Mostly, any route that Southwest flies is going to be less expensive, even on competitors. If they don't fly there, it can be pricey. Trains are a great way to travel along the Northeast corridor, but in other parts of the country they run infrequently, slowly, and can be expensive. You don't want a car in some cities, like New York, because parking and rentals are very expensive.

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Permalink Reply by meg minard (30/44/205) on April 16, 2014 at 6:54pm

July 11/12 - Cleveland, Seattle, Milwaukee, Colorado - the parks in any of those cities are right downtown. I wouldn't recommend Kansas City. Since you'll have seen Oakland play three times already, you may want to skip Seattle (though it is a great city and ballpark)

July 19/20 - Definitely Pittsburgh; Boston is also recommended to see a historic field.

Happy trip!

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Permalink Reply by Gary Panons on May 1, 2014 at 4:29pm

I work for a US company so I am lucky that I now have a second trip this summer. Work is close to new York so I will see Yankees v Pittsburgh twice and philladelphia v Cincinnati . The phillies is one of the seven teams I have seen at home, but in the old stadium. I might also get to see mets v dodgers before I fly back to hong kong.