Double headers were the key to beating the streak. I knew this well. I spent about a hundred hours online searching every scenario for every city. I am lucky enough in my pizza delivery job I am able to go on call after eight at night. I have about ten hours of down time a week waiting for late orders. I applied this time to come up with this list.
This is a list based on a master flight schedule from every city of America that had a possibility to arrive at a Major League baseball City in time to make ground transportaion available to arrive for first pitch. In addition to flights, this doubleheader chart also will show you Amtrak trains, bus information and other modes of transport designed on how to do two cities in one day.
There are several cities with scheduling quirks that enable a doubleheader opportunity as well. Cleveland, Minnesota and New York play several day matinees that start as 12:00 pm start times———this bodes nicely with a team that has 7:00pm start time or higher.
In this first streak I was able to use the ‘ESPN SUNDAY NIGHT GAME’ to my advantage a few times. The reason why this is so good is because of the later start time to accommodate primetime. The games start at 8:00 Pm Eastern————of course this only helps you in the Eastern time zone, if the game is in Los Angeles or San Francisco, then the game is at 5:00pm local time which does not help.
Something else that I picked up on early was that flying from a central eastern based city that is really close to the Central Time Zone can really benefit you. This would be cities like Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Atlanta flying to teams such as: Chicago, Milwaukee, Houston, Texas and St. Louis. Some of the flights were under in an hour when the hour gained was taken into consideration. I will talk more about transportation to and from the games themselves during the streak attempts chapters. This is the master doubleheader list.
Now depending on what criteria you use to mark off your stadiums this will determine on your method of transportation to and from the stadiums. For me, I had to adhere to the “Guinness Book Of World Records” requirements —to qualify for the world record—which meant watching every pitch. That is why when I had flights going from an airport my preferred method of transport was “sedan limo service.”
Actually that concept initially frightened me for cost concerns. However, with the prices of car rentals, gas, parking at the stadiums, insurances and the uneasiness of driving in a city, (I was not too familiar with) added up to about the same price with way less headaches. For instance, in Houston I paid a hundred and twenty-five dollars, (including tip) for a roundtrip sedan. The cost for a weekday car rental plus insurance was around eighty dollars. You add ten-fifteen bucks for Minute Maid Parking, and at least ten-fifteen dollars for gas you are roughly the same price. That was similar in a lot of the cities.
There was a definite drawback though if the game went into extra innings. There will be some great stories in the upcoming chapters.

TEAM OPPONENT TIME DESCRIPTION
DOUBLE
HEADER
PARTNER

AL EAST

TORONTO WEEKDAY MATINEE START TIME IS USUALLY
12:37 PM-WEEKEND MATINEE IS 1:07 PM

SUNDAY NIGHT only
TORONTO 1:07 TORONTO AIRPORT IS 15 MILES
FROM SKYDOME (25 MINUTES)

BOSTON 8:05 YOU CAN ONLY COMBINE
BOSTON WHEN THE REDSOX
PLAY SUNDAY NIGHT GAMES
THERE IS A FLIGHT LEAVES
TORONTO AIRPORT 6:00
ARRIVES BOSTON AROUND 7:30
6 MILES FROM AIRPORT TO BOS
13 MINUTES(25-30) ON GAMEDAY



WEEKDAY
TORONTO TORONTO 12:37 T ORONTO AIRPORT IS 15 MILES
FROM SKYDOME (25 MINUTES)

NEW YORK 7.00P LGA TO YANKEE STADIUM IS
YANKEES 8 MILES AND 15 MINUTES
AWAY-30 OR SO ON GAME DAY

NEW YORK LGA TO CITI FIELD IS 4 MILES
METS OR 20 MINUTES IN TRAFFIC

FLIGHT LEAVES TORONTO AT
5:15 PM AND
YOU ARRIVE AT LGA AT
6:25-IF GIVES YOU A SHOT
3 HOUR MAXIMUM DAY GAME

SUNDAY YOU NEED 2 HOURS AND 45
NIGHT MINUTES FOR THIS

T TORONTO 1:05 FLIGHT LEAVES TOR AIR 5:25

NEW YORK 8:05 ARRIVES AT LGA AT 7:00
YANKEES

NEW YORK 8:05 ARRIVES AT LGA AT 7:00
METS

WEEKDAY
TORONTO 12:37 TORONTO AIRPORT IS 15 MILES
FROM SKYDOME (25 MINUTES)

CHICAGO US CELLULAR IS 22 MILES AWAY
WHITE SOX 7:11 45 MINUTES TO 50 MINUTES

OR CHICAGO WRIGLEY FIELD IS 15 MILES
CUBS 7:05 FROM OHARE AND TAKES 45 MIN


THE SUNDAY NIGHT GAME WOULD BE THE
SAME BECAUSE OF THE START TIME IS 7:05 CENTRAL

WEEKDAY
TORONTO 12:37 TORONTO AIRPORT IS 15 MILES
FROM SKYDOME (25 MINUTES)

MILWAUKEE 7:05 MILLER PARK IS 9 MILES
AND 20 MINUTES AWAY

THIS PLANE LEAVES TORONTO
5:30 AND ARRIVES IN MIL
AT 6:03

ONE HOUR TO MAKE IT
TO MILLER PARK

MILWUAKEE DOES NOT OFFER THIS FLIGHT SUN

WEEKDAY
TORONTO 12:37 TORONTO AIRPORT IS 15 MILES
OR 25 MINUTES AWAY

PITTSBURGH 7:05 PIT AIRPORT IS 20 MILES AWAY
AND ABOUT 30 MINUTES

THIS FLIGHT LEAVES TOR AT
5:05 PM AND ARRIVES AT 6:25

YOU WOULD NEED A GREAT
LINE AT SECURITY AND ALSO
HAVE ROY HALLADAY PITCH
A FAST GAME

IMPOSSIBLE ON SUNDAY BECAUSE OF START TIME

WEEKDAY
TORONTO 12:37 TORONTO AIRPORT IS 15 MILES
OR 25 MINUTES AWAY

DETROIT 7:05 COMERICA PARK IS 22 MILES
AND ABOUT A 35-40 MIN DRIVE
IN TRAFFIC FROM DTW

YOU NEED TO LEAVE SKYDOME
BY 3:00-3:15 TO MAKE THIS
AND A CAB OR SEDAN DRIVER

THE FLIGHT LEAVES TORONTO
AT 4:59 AND ARRIVES AT DTW
AT 6:14

IMPOSSIBLE ON WEEKEND
GAME BECAUSE THE TORONTO
GAME STARTS AT 1:07

SUNDAY NIGHT ONLY
TORONTO 1:07


PHILLY 8:05 CITIZENS BANK PARK IS
6 MILES AND ABOUT 15 MIN
FROM PHILLY AIRPORT

THE FLIGHT LEAVES TOR AT
5:30 AND ARRIVES IN PHL AT
7:04 FOR ONE HOUR TO GO

SUNDAY NIGHT ONLY
TORONTO 1:07 TORONTO AIRPORT IS 15 MILES
OR 25 MINUTES AWAY

BALTIMORE 8:05 BWI AIRPORT IS 10 MILES AND
20 MINUTES AWAY FROM
ORIOLE PARK AT CAMDEN

THE FLIGHT LEAVES TOR AT
5:30 AND ARRIVES AT 7:07

BWI 7:07 GIVES YOU A SHOT TO DRIVE
TO WASHINGTON FROM BWI
IF SUNDAY NIGHT GAME

WASH 8:05 IT IS 33 MILES OR 40 MINUTES
FROM BWI TO NATIONALS
PARK IN WASHINGTON