Well...how about a trip to a baseball game? Sounds cool. After all, the boys have really gotten into the game. We are huge Braves fans and try not to miss a game on TV. But where to? We had already been to Turner Field on Memorial Day to see the Braves and Red Sox. So then my wife and I (really my wife - Tammy gets all the credit for this one) decided to make a trip up north. Since it was announced that some of our beloved Atlanta Braves would be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, it had kind of been a pipe dream of mine to go to Cooperstown in July to see the induction ceremony. But that is a long way and is it worth going that far just for the Hall of Fame? Well yeah! Was my first thought but then the practical side of me reared its head so I did not think much of it. Then my lovely and thoughtful wife started thinking. 'What if we make it a trip to see several games? I think the boys would love it". "Yes we will!" I thought.
Now Tammy is not known to do things halfway. If she is going to do something, she is going to do it right with lots of pre-planning and forethought put in ahead of time. She found out when the induction ceremony would be in Cooperstown and got the MLB baseball schedule out and got right to work. And what she came up with would seem impossible. She suggested that we go to Philadelphia for a Phillies/SF Giants game, head up to NYC for a Yankees/Blue Jays game, and then over to Cooperstown for a couple of days for the Hall of Fame ceremonies. Leave there and go to Boston for a Red Sox/Blue Jays game, go back to New York for a Mets/Phillies game. Head down to Washington and Baltimore to see the Nats and Orioles. Wow! Can we really do this? If there is anything that gets my wife motivated, it's the idea of a challenge. Well, here we go. We left our own friendly confines of our Rutherford College, NC home on Wednesday July 23rd. "Man, this is going to be awesome!" But can we pull it off?
For numerical purposes, we are going to count Atlanta's Turner Field as Ballpark #1 as the boys have been there several times.
