Over the years, I have had the opportunity to take in a number of Cubs games from several of the rooftops that line Waveland to the north and Sheffield to the east, but it has been probably 10 years or more since the last time I had done so. In the late 1990s, the rooftops were businesses but not terribly sophisticated. They served canned beer from tubs of ice, had a couple of Weber grills used to prepare burgers and hot dogs and the seating was a set or two of rickety…

From Chicago, Indianapolis is the nearest AAA team and about a 3 hour drive. The first week the kids were off of school provided us the opportunity to drive in for an afternoon game against the Durham Bulls and be home before dark.

Victory Field was a beautiful park with a great view of the city skyline beyond the outfield. Our ticket agent for the day of game sales set us up with some seats in the shade on the third base side of home plate.…

Our 2013 baseball trip took us to Washington to see the Nationals and Baltimore to see the Orioles.

We enjoyed a couple of beautiful days in Washington and on our first morning did a walking tour to see the White House, National Mall and to visit the Air and Space Museum on the Smithsonian campus. Unfortunately, some idiots had thrown paint all over the Lincoln Memorial and it was closed for cleaning the morning we visited so we were not able to get very close to Lincoln’s statue. We…