How many could you see in 1 year?

I'm curious what everyone thinks about this:

How many leagues could one see every stadium in in a single season?

i.e. MLB, AAA, AA, A, Rookie ball?

How many of these do you think you could squeeze into a season?

MLB would be easy - done many times

MLB + AAA seems pretty easy

MLB +AAA+AA seems doable

Adding in A seems to be where it could get tricky.

Of course all of this is based on schedules. I haven't done any hard study yet, but I am looking for an interesting way to do a trip next year that is a little different than just all 30 MLB stadiums.

Any ideas?

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Permalink Reply by Thequesters Too on April 22, 2012 at 7:34pm

It would take you 7 months of seeing a game everyday. First, there's not 7 months to the season with minors. Second, the timing would be incredibly difficult if not insane. My son and I are just north of 160 now and it's taken us nearly 8 years to get that far. In addition each town has its own story to tell. I refuse to jump into the stadium without seeing some of the local sites.

With timing it would be great if you could see NYY, NYM, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Lakewood, Trenton and Hudson valley in a week without breaking the bank. But for all those teams to play in successive days happens rarely if not at all. However sometimes you can get a plan worked out that you can see two games on the same day. This year Staten Island and Brooklyn are playing on August 2nd. That same weekend the Yankees are in town with the Mariners and then Tuesday the Mets are playing.

Good luck with your Quest.

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Permalink Reply by meg minard (30/44/205) on April 22, 2012 at 8:59pm

Hi Eric –

Doing a trip visiting all affiliated teams like that would be impossible in North America.

However, doing something like that in Japan, the NPB league would be do-able as it appears there is just one minor league team per NPB team. That might be something to check out.

In North America, I would check out a ‘region’ to see the MLB and MiLB teams in that area. Just for example: California, or Florida, or Texas, or the Northwest – Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and NY as mentioned by Thequesters Too. (There are many, many other regions to visit.) Visiting by 'region' will give you not only the baseball teams but other aspects of that area of the country.

Meg

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Permalink Reply by Jon (4/6) on April 24, 2012 at 1:11pm

Posted this last week in the Minor League team section, but figured it would help you plan your minor league trips.

I was using it last year for a trip to NYC, trying to find minor league teams in the area, and then I went "I've never been to NYC before, why am I not going to Mets or Yankees games?" so I just went to Citi Field on my trip.

Anyway, the site has a geographical map of every minor league stadium, color coded by league. And it has a state by state listing of each minor league team.

http://www.milb.com/milb/info/geographical.jsp

you could maybe do it in less than 7 months, but you'd have to be able to see multiple games a day. Which could be done, depending on schedule. At least down here in FL for A ball.

If the schedules worked, it'd be possible to get to two stadiums, or more, some of the minor league games have 10am start times for day camps to bring kids to during the summer.

But you could easily got to a Game in Tampa and see the Rays play and then see the Brandon Manatees play if one had a day game and the other a night game. The next day you could go see the Ft Myers Miracle play a day game and then head to Miami for a nighttime Marlins game. Then the next day hit a day game for the Palm Beach Cardinals or Jupiter Hammerheads (they share a stadium) and then drive an hour and see a night game for the St Lucie Mets.

And like I said, the Palm Beach Cardinals and Jupiter Hammerheads share a stadium, I wonder how many other minor league stadiums do that?

I bet it would be doable, but I also bet it would be a really busy.