For the record: I made an executive decision and declared the second New Britain/Portland match-up as part 5 of this series on my blog. I hope you don’t mind. It may not have been a home-and-home trip, but I changed ballparks one day this past weekend. After Friday’s trip up to Maine, I spent Saturday
Tag: Minor League Baseball
From Minor League Baseball to Major Fun Part 3.5 (Or is it Part 5? Who knows.)
I guess there was a subconscious reason for the labeling of my last post. It may not have been the same date or the same order of ballparks visited, but I did happen to catch a Portland Sea Dogs game up at Hadlock Field on Friday night. Coincidentally, it was against the New Britain Rock
From Minor League Baseball to Major Fun: Part 3 (Yup. I know it’s out-of-order. There’s a semi-legitimate reason for that.)
So the title for this one won’t win any awards, especially if the aforementioned awards involve numerical order. I figured since I wanted to write number four in this series first, I would. It’s my blog after all, right? No offense to the Portland Sea Dogs, but the game I was supposed to go to
From Minor League Baseball to Major Fun: Part 4
My region-wide Minor League Baseball tour continued yesterday with a trip to New Britain Stadium, home of the New Britain Rock Cats. They’ve been a Minnesota Twins affiliate for the past 17 years, and used to be a part of the Boston Red Sox system. Before Saturday’s 6:35 contest, I got a hold of the
From Minor League Baseball to Major Fun: Part 2
Yesterday, I made another trip to Rhode Island. Over the past six months, I’ve become accustomed to driving south for Friday nights and Sunday afternoons, but that was for the Providence Bruins’ games. This time around, I made a hardball road trip. (The last 2010-2011 season installation of my minor league hockey & baseball series
From Minor League Baseball to Major Fun: Part 1
For the next four or five weekends, I’ll be making trips to local minor league ballparks. It will be nice to see some games as a fan, but that’s not the only (or even primary) reason I’m going. My mission is to make some new friends throughout baseball, learn about all the different promos other
From Minor League Baseball to… Minor League Hockey: Part 8
I got a baseball job. What the heck does that have to do with minor league hockey? Quite a bit, actually. In fact, there’s no way I would have gotten this job if it weren’t for my hockey experience this season. Major props to Adam Kaufman (the Providence Bruins‘ Radio Broadcaster), who has been a
From Minor League Baseball to Major League Vlogging: Part 2
Here it is folks. The following video is what I submitted to the 2011 MLB Dream Job. If I win, I’ll be able to watch the 2011 season non-stop and blog all about it, getting paid by Major League Baseball! If you’d like to apply, click here. As always, let me know what you think.
From Minor League Baseball to Childhood (and Back)
Soon after one of my adult front teeth got knocked out, I went to a Red Sox game. (The tooth is still healthy and in my mouth, believe it or not.) It was the fall of 1996, and I discovered a new player that day while at Fenway with my dad. At that point in
From Minor League Baseball to Reading. No, Really
Some people say it’s overrated. Some people say it’s underrated. I say (and I’m not the first to) that reading is the gateway to a life’s worth of learning. Whether it’s because it helps you develop an interest in things or keeps you up-to-date in your industry, finding the right sources to read frequently can
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