Archive for the 'Ballparks' Category

Au Revoir, Montreal

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

After a few years of equivocating, Major League Baseball has decided to move the Montreal Expos to Washington DC. (and I’m already sick of the phrase “the national pastime returns to the nation’s capital.”) This is of particular interest to Em and I, as we’re going to have to add another stop on our quest [...]

Rating the Parks

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

We made it to ballfields number 7, 8, and 9 on the Bil and Em 30* Parks Project. How do they stack up? Here’s my thoughts:
We missed St. Louis’s Busch Stadium due to rain, of course. I’m not overly concerned about that since we did get to walk around outside the next day and get [...]

Day Two - Failure

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

Greetings from St. Louis! Or should I say the wet, baseball-less Gateway to the West. After a nasty nasty storm swept across the area this afternoon, the Cardinals game we were due to see was rained out, to be played in August or something. So that sucks big time. We’re due in Cincinnati tomorrow night [...]

The Trip

Sunday, May 23rd, 2004

Starting tomorrow:

Monday - Tuesday: St Louis
Wednesday - Thursday: Cincinnati
Friday: Detroit
Saturday - Sunday: Cleveland
Now you can follow along at home!!

Pharewell, Veterans Stadium

Monday, March 22nd, 2004

Yesterday in Philadelphia (home of the Phillies and all sorts of phunky “ph” spellings) Veterans Stadium, one of the cookie cutter baseball stadia so popular in the 70’s, bit the dust. Or rather, created a giant cloud of dust as it was brought down with 3,000 pounds of explosives.

Last year was the final season to [...]