The Ballpark
The ballpark, to the baseball obsessed, is sacred ground. We are on a current tour of America hitting 8 ballparks (plus the Field of Dreams and the Negro Leagues museum in KC), 5 national parks, and 2 amusement parks. At the end of this trip I will have visited 23 ballparks (for Keegan and Reese it will be 18, for Beckett and Nash it will be 13). We love baseball. We love going to ballgames - going early to try to catch a home run ball in batting practice, trying fun food, sitting in the sun eating seeds, keeping score the old fashioned way, cheering for relish during the ubiquitous hot dog race. We love it. The ballpark is as much a part of the team as the manager. But the ballpark is so much more than just steel and concrete. The ballpark has a life of its own. And because baseball is a game, we are keeping score of ballparks. We are going to use a scoring system that encompasses more than just architecture....
