Brewguru2

I drove to every park I saw (at least the first time) except Phoenix. It's a great way to see the country. My 2 biggest and best trips were: 1997, my first trip to the West Coast, I left early on a Friday morning (rental car) towards Seattle. I drove to Mount Rushmore and slept Friday night somewhere in Wyoming. I continued on to Seattle. Got there mid-afternoon on Saturday. Saw the Space Needle and a litlte of downtown. Saw Randy Johnson pitch at the Kingdome on Sunday afternoon. After the game, drove towards Northern California for a Monday nighter in Oakland. Saw Alcatraz, Fisherman's Wharf, Golden Gate Bridge, Presidio, etc. After the game, went to LA. Got a hotel and went to a game Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. Met some great fans who told me the easiest routes to see everything. Venice Beach, Hollywood, OJ's house, etc. even went to where it all began for Robin Yount, Woodland Hills High School. Wednesday, saw a game in Anaheim. Wook up early Thursday, drove to San Diego, went to Tijuana, Sea World and the zoo before the Padres game that night (I'm a power traveler....I see what I have to see and move on to the next thing). Friday I drove up to San Francisco for a Giants game at Candlestick and drove home through Reno and Salt Lake City. 1999, Robin's induction into Cooperstown. I flew to Rochester on Friday and drove to Toronto for a Saturday afternoon game. Got a chance to see Niagara Falls for the first time. After the game, drove towards Massachusettes. Sunday morning, saw the Basketball HOF in Springfield and went to Fenway in the afternoon. This was Pedro Martinez's first game after his all-star performance when he was dominant. On sports radio before the game, there was talk of him pitching a no-hitter since he was facing the sad sack Marlins. Well, he got shelled and was taken out in the second inning. I had tickets right behind the plate on a 105-degree day. This was also the day that JFK, Jr. died. I tried to get a Boston Globe newspaper but couldn't find one. After the game, I drove to the Meadowlands for a Springsteen concert. After the concert, I drove to Atlantic City to sleep. Monday, I saw all the sites in Washington DC and went to a game at Camden Yards. Then I drove into Pennsylvania. Tuesday, I drove into Ohio and saw the Pro Football HOF and an Indians game at the Jake that night. Wednesday was seeing the Rock & Roll HOF and other sites and drove back towards New York. I arrived in Cooperstown on Thursday (actually couldn't find a hotel closer than Syracuse) and spent the weekend there. Every fan should visit Cooperstown at least once on induction weekend.

Thanks. Yes, Shea Stadium is bad. It's tough to get to, you have planes flying overhead all the time, no atmosphere, you have to deal with rude New Yorkers and you're afraid the stadium is going to collapse at any moment. My travels started slowly. First opposing stadium I went to was old Comiskey when the Brewers were 13-0. I went to the 14th game. The loss sucked, but after the game, I was on CNN, ESPN, Channel 4 and Channel 6. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif The next stadium I saw was Baltimore in '89. I was at the Brewers game on Sunday afternoon in late August. At the all-star break, the Brewers were something like 12 games out of first. After this Sunday game, they were down to a 1/2 game. I said to a buddy, I'm going to the series in Baltimore! He said he'd go with me and off we went. Then in '93, I set a goal of seeing every stadium. So I left on a Friday morning to go to the Brewers game that night in Detroit. Saturday afternoon I saw Cleveland hosting Baltimore. Pittsburgh is only an hour and a half away, so after that game, I drove to Pittsburgh for the Mets game (Ted Simmons resigned as GM after that game). Sunday afternoon I was in Cincinnati for a Dodgers game. Every year, I would go to more and more stadiums. One time, I had nothing to do on a Saturday, so I looked at the paper, noticed the Royals were playing that night and drove to Kansas City for the game. Now that I'm a home owner, the trips might be coming to an end. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

This is one of my favorite subjects. 1) Comerica Park....Beautiful stadium, the marble statues out front clinch it. 2) Camden Yards...If you haven't eaten at Boog's Barbecue, you haven't eaten. 3) Jacobs Field....Great park, lots of stuff to do within a couple blocks. 4) PNC Park.....Scenery second to none. 5) Ballpark in Arlington.....Maybe a little biased because I was at the first game at the place in '94 (vs. Brewers), but a very nice place to see a game. 6) Citizens Bank 7) Pac Bell Park 8) Petco Park 9) Miller Park 10) Minute Maid Park 11) Bank One Ballpark 12) Dodger Stadium 13) Great American Ballpark 14) Turner Field...an orgy for the ears...when i was there, they had 2 bands playing within 50 feet of each other. 15) Wrigley Field 16) Fenway Park 17) Yankee Stadium 18) Old Tiger Stadium All 4 of these old stadiums are decrepit, but the history and the fans are awesome. Fenway's concourse is as big as my living room, but seeing the Green Monster for the first time is bone chilling. Yankee Stadium doesn't allow video cameras inside ever since 9/11 (not sure if that's still the case, haven't been there since '05) 19) Angels Stadium 20) Coors Field.....unlike others, I was thoroughly unimpressed with this stadium 21) Old Busch Stadium.....the fan atmosphere puts this way over the other cookie cutter ballparks. 22) County Stadium 23) Old Cleveland Municipal Stadium...sitting in the last row of the upper deck in right field was like being in another zip code. 24) Royals Stadium 25) Old Baltimore Memorial Stadium 26) Skydome 27) New Comiskey 28) Oakland Alameda 29) Qualcomm Stadium 30) Mile High Stadium 31) Kingdome 32) Veterans Stadium 33) Riverfront Stadium 34) Three Rivers Stadium 35) Astrodome From here on down, you can blow them all up: 36) Olympic Stadium 37) Joe Robbie 38) Atlanta County Stadium 39) Old Comiskey 40) Metrodome 41) RFK Stadium 42) Candlestick Park 43) RFK Stadium 44) Shea Stadium 45) Tropicana Field The only stadiums I have yet to see are Safeco, the new Busch and the new one in Washington.