THE BASEBALL FAN’S BUCKET LIST 162, PART 3: From the Peach Tree to The Big...
Part 3 of my journey’s from the book The Baseball Fan’s Bucket List, here’s some more excerpts from my list of baseball and ballpark themed accomplishments from The Baseball Fan’s Bucket List of 162...
View ArticleThe Baseball Fan’s Bucket List 162, Part 2: From Fenway to The Bronx,...
Here’s some more excerpts from my list of baseball and ballpark themed accomplishments from The Basball Fan’s Bucket List that will soon be featured in Stadium Journey . Part 2 takes us from Fenway...
View ArticleThe Baseball Fan’s Bucket List 162 Things You Must See, Do, Get, and...
I hope you’re all staying safe during these pandemic times. We’ll all get back to our ballpark journeys eventually. Before my posts go live in August through Stadium Journey, I’ll be posting excerpts...
View ArticleTale of The ‘Gram…Dodger Stadium and The Space Age
View this post on Instagram Flashback Friday…July, 2005. This was the last season Dodger Stadium's seats used this color palette as it would return to it's original colors of 1962 in 2006…...
View ArticleRidin’ The Rails…A Drei-Tale From The Rails…Portland to SoCal…Coast...
Happiest of New Year’s to all of you. Hopefully 2020 has been off to a great start for you. Prior to heading back home I decided to don my Niners colors in The Rose City. Behind me is the Moda Center,...
View ArticleRidin’ The Rails…A Drei-Tale From The Rails…From L.A. to Portland…Up the...
Holiday Greetings to you. Since I was a kid travel by rail has always been my favorite mode of transportation. Since my grandmother took me on my first rail trip on Amtrak on Thanksgiving Day, 1983,...
View ArticleMy Journey Through The Gridiron Pac: From Berkeley to Pasadena
The 2019 College Bowl Season will be underway shortly. The Pac-12 will be sending 8 of their 12 teams bowling, with Pac-12 Champion Oregon representing the conference in this years Rose Bowl. I had...
View ArticleBaseball and 9/11: Day Three, Charm City in One Day, Part Two…Back To The...
Why Not? The Orioles theme of 1989, one year removed from their 54-108 season, the Orioles would find themselves in the thick of the AL East race until Game 161, when the Blue Jays would clinch. 1989...
View ArticleBaseball and 9/11: Day Three, Charm City in One Day, Part One…The Rails and...
Baltimore MD. Also known as Charm City. When I venture into another city, thanks to one of the greatest inventions, the camera phone with endless memory (You can tell i’m not the greatest expert…), one...
View ArticleBaseball and 9/11: Day Two, New York City and a Mets Game in One Day
Wednesday morning, September 11, 2019. I wait for my New York City bound Amtrak train on this calm and warm morning on the platform of Baltimore’s Penn Station. 18 years prior, on a normal Tuesday...
View ArticleBaseball and 9/11: Day One, 9/10/2019. The Pentagon and A Division Clincher
Prior to this season, I made it a personal goal to catch a Dodger game in each N.L. West venue. But not having had a chance to travel beyond Arizona in quite some time only whetted my appetite to...
View ArticleTurning The NL West Blue: Recapping Drei’s Journey’s Through The Yards of The...
It’s a baseball fan’s dream to venture to all 30 MLB parks. Along the way, some minor league yards and an international yard or two may be on the list. As for me, I still got a ways to go before I hit...
View ArticleCruising The N.L. West: Kid n Drei’s Desert Invasion and The Pantone 294...
The day started off really early. With a 4 AM meetup time at Union Station, I catch the last Red Line train of the day at just before 2:30 from the North Hollywood Station. Arriving at Union Station...
View ArticleNotes On a Scorecard: 6/1, Walkin’ Off With The Fresh Prince of Chavez Ravine...
It’s been awhile since I’ve done Notes On a Scorecard. What a month of June it was keeping score at the yard. Even the one non-Dodger game I would go would be a history-maker. I’ve tried over the years...
View ArticleCruising The N.L. West, Day Two: Strolling Through LoDo and The Series...
Leading Off… So true in baseball… Just a little over 20 minutes before 11AM local time on this last day of June. It’s been a humid weekend in the Mile High City, so far the clouds have stayed away....
View ArticleCruising The N.L. West, Rocky Mountain Weekend, Day One: National Baseball...
It’s been awhile since my buddy Josh and I had a chance to take a road trip, and when I say that, I don’t mean a drive to San Diego…LOL. Upon arriving late Friday evening into early Saturday morning,...
View ArticleHappy 100th, Sons of Westwood
Leading off, I want to put it out there that I never attended UCLA. That was a childhood dream of mine when my uncle influenced me to cheer for all things Blue and Gold. OK, I also had an attachment...
View ArticleCruising The N.L. West, San Diego 5/5
Just four days after cruising The Bay we head down south to San Diego for this Sunday afternoon Cinco De Mayo matchup against the Padres. With the Dodgers holding the top spot in the NL West and the...
View ArticleCruising The N.L. West, San Francisco 5/1
Throughout this 2019 season it is my goal to catch our Boys in Blue in every NL West venue. Though I’ve have been to each venue and have seen my share of Dodgers games in San Diego and San Francisco,...
View ArticleL.A. to The Bay…3/22-24The Road to The Final Four
The evening prior to making my way to San Jose for the NCAA March Madness Regionals, I would take in a Kings game at Staples Center against, of course, the San Jose Sharks. With the SAP Center being...
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