Very cool.  Someday…someday…

I don’t know Matt. My friends and I did a two-week version of this, only getting to a third of the ballparks, but we could have done the whole thing.  For anyone who loves baseball, it’s a heck of a lot of fun.

I think the key is going with people who you genuinely enjoy spending time with.  If you’re with some questionable characters, that much time together in a car very well could drive you crazy.

And just as a counterpoint, my girlfriend at the time (and my wife now) was happy that I got to do this since she knew I would get it out of my system and not bug her about it in the future.

While I haven’t done the all-in-one-year trip, I’ve done many large multiple-park forays (all Midwest and all East Coast, for example) and I think I like following ballparks more than following a team.

It’s too bad people don’t have the chance to see a game in some of the old parks, like Tiger Stadium, Comiskey, or even The Mistake By The Lake - it put things into perspective for me to see the old park and then come back and see the new one. Even to see a crappy-ass park like the fully enclosed “Big A,” then see it after it became a great ballpark again, adds perspective.

My advice to travelers: I highly recommend building in side trips. It not only lets you experience some incredible things that you’d later kick yourself for missing, it gives you slack in your ballpark schedule so it isn’t so frantic.

I took a 6-week road trip cross country last summer with my husband… it was amazing, probably the smartest thing we’ve ever done.  We only made it to a handful of parks along the way, but had an unbelievable trip, saw Niagara Falls, Glacier National Park, the wilds of Montana, Bob Dylan’s birthplace, the Grand Canyon, and of course, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.  We traveled about 12,000 mile total, and camped out the whole way.  I recommend it to anyone and everyone… even if you can’t afford it, go anyway