Our Digital World - Part Deux (The Stadiums)

Got home from work tonight and MacMom had found and started up an old lap top computer. The computer had about 500 - 1000 old (circa 2003 - 2006) pictures. I copied them over to our current computer using our external hard drive and it was like Christmas morning. The first question was, who's cute little kids are those in the pictures on our computer? (Just a joke, because the three kids are growing so fast.)

With the new pictures available, it was time for a consolidation of MLB Stadiums that I have visited with at least one child. There are several stadiums that I have visited without child that do not count. I will list them below. At the end of the day, it only matters if we create a memory and mark it by visiting a MLB stadium. Need to get to them all... and very timely with the start of the World Series.

MacDaddy started it all with a trip to New York City in 200

Yankee Stadium

We missed the scheduled tour because of subway construction. I paid a tour guide to take us on a private tour. Not sure George Steinbrenner got any of that money?

This past summer, the whole family returned to NY to see both the Original Yankee Stadium, the house that Ruth built, and the new Yankee Stadium across the street.

The next day we caught a game at the Original Shea Stadium and saw Pedro Martinez pitch on our way to the airport. MacDaddy and I brought our gloves and played catch in the parking lot while waiting in line to run around the bases. Catch with Dad... that is all that it is about.


MacDaddy in his Mets shirt, Mets hat and Mets braclet. This was when the rubber bracelets were cool and the "in" thing. I have a couple bags with me that we had been carrying around for two days. Don't tell anyone at Shea, they contained a bunch of Yankee souvenirs.

Tampa Bay Rays are playing in the 2008 World Series. This is a picture at Tampa Bay Devil Rays Spring Training in 2007. We also went to Tropicana Field and I can not find a picture.

A summer trip to SoCal. SoCal is short for Southern California for the older generation. Angels Stadium of Anaheim on the far left and Petco Park home of the San Diego Padres in the middle.

Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine overlooks downtown Los Angeles.

A-mac don't look so mean. :-)

In Spring 2007, A-mac, MacDaddy and I went to a Pirates game while MacMom and Lil' Lefty enjoy some USA shopping. PNC Park is on the other side of a river from downtown Pittsburgh. We got tickets 20 rows up behind the dugout for less than face value. Great fun! Took a boat back to the hotel.




We had season tickets to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2007, 2 front row tickets on the intersection of the infield and outfield. We saw about 45 games that season. We saw one game in 2008 because all three kids got busier with rep softball/baseball during the summer.












This is our only Jays game of 2008 and we went with Lil Lefty's softball team in September. I actually think it was one of the last home games of the season.







Lil' Lefty and I went to Washington DC for the baptism of my cousin's son in 2006, I believe. We saw RFK when it was the inagural stadium for the Nationals. Lil' Lefty and I drove to Baltimore to see Oriole Park at Camden Yards and Lil' Lefty to right is standing in front of a statue of Babe Ruth. The Babe was born in 1895 in a house, walking distance from the stadium. He was first signed as a professional baseball player by the minor league, Baltimore Orioles.


After a cruise during Spring Break out of Galveston, we stopped off at Minute Maid Park where the Houston Astros play.

Here is a picture from a Texas Rangers game in 2005. Nothing like 100 degree heat at 10pm.

In one of the numerous computer crashes we have suffered, I have lost pictures of the following:

We ate lunch at Comerica Park ( Detroit Tigers) and it snowed that day we were there. We were on our way to Cleveland to celebrate Thanksgiving. We have been to Jacobs Field, and tour the facility, where the Cleveland Indians play. On our drive from Texas to Canada, MacDaddy and I took in a game at Kauffman Stadium, home of the KC Royals and we walkd around Great American Ballpark where the Cincinnati Reds play in Ohio. A-Mac, Lil Lefty and I saw a St. Louis Cardinals game at the new Busch Stadium on our drive to Canada. A-mac and I went to a Boston Red Sox game with my cousin, Richard and his wife Melanie in the early 2000's. Our whole family went to a Minnesota Twins game during our short residence in Iowa. The whole family also saw Coors Field where the Rockies play, while attending my cousin Richard's wedding in Colorado Springs.

I have seen the stadiums of the following teams while on business trips: Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs and White Sox, Atlanta Braves and Florida Marlins. (Old Montreal Expos)

Two members of the family have been to the stadiums of the Yankees, Mets, Rays, Jays, Angels, Padres, Dodgers, Pirates, Blue Jays, Nationals, Orioles, Atsros, Tigers, Indians, Rangers, Reds, Cardinals, Red Sox, Twins and Rockies.

We need to get to yet... Brewers, A's, Razorbacks and the Phillies.

Wait til I tell MacMom ,we have to spend Spring Break in Milwaukee.