Much like the rest of you, my goal is to see every major league park. I have now been to 34 stadiums, including 11 retired parks.
Baseball highlights include:
* Catching a home run ball. That was on the highlights that night, so I got a recording of the catch. Aug 2, 2010. Asdrubal Cabrera hit it.
* I have been to World Baseball Classic games in 2006 (San Juan), 2009(Toronto) 2013(Miami), 2017(San Diego)
* Sitting in the bleachers in Wrigley on a beautiful Saturday afternoon game, watching Sammy Sosa and the Cubs, beat the WhiteSox. Awesome day.
* Walking down Yonge street after the Jays won the 1992 World Series. What a party and celebration.
* 2011 Cooperstown Induction weekend, where Alomar, Blyleven, and Gillick got enshrined.
* July 1st 1997 Canada Day game, Jeff Juden vs Roger Clemens. Juden pitched 7 no hit innings. The closest I ever came to watching a no-no.
* Roger Clemens 3000K in Skydome. July 5, 1998 vs Randy Winn.
* Watching a game in Cuba. 2010.
* Watching a game in Japan in 2016.
* At Rogers Stadium for the Wildcard game between the Jays and Orioles when E.Encarnacion hit the walk off.
* At Dodger Stadium for game 1 and game 2 of the 2017 World Series.
* Best road trips (Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington in 2009 with my son). (Chicago WS, Milwaukee, Chicago Cubs in 2002 with my buddies), (LA Dodgers, Oakland, LA Angels in 2010 with my family).
Retired parks include: Exhibition Stadium - Toronto, Yankee Stadium - NewYork, Tiger Stadium - Detroit, Kingdome - Seattle, Shea Stadium - NewYork, Olympic Stadium - Montreal, RFK Stadium - Washington, Veteran's Stadium - Philadelphia, Riverfront Stadium - Cincinnati, Candlestick Park - SanFrancisco, Turner Field - Atlanta.
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 4:54pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
I'm heading to Cooperstown tomorrow. I'm less interested in the Sunday speeches, and more interested in seeing the existing HOFers. Should be fun. I'll share some photos when I return. Then next week, I'm off to St.Louis for the first time to see the Dodgers and the Cardinals (and to increase my stadium count to 28).
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