Cindy Christen can’t remember a summer in which she didn’t spend time at a baseball stadium. Her father played amateur baseball while Cindy was growing up in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. “I pretty much grew up in a ballpark,” she says. “My parents’ honeymoon was even spent at a ballpark because my dad had a baseball […]
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When Jim Mathis was growing up in Wichita, Kansas, summer meant baseball. He was a boy who ran out to get the newspaper each morning in 1949, anxious to see how close Ralph Kiner was to beating Babe Ruth’s homerun record. Jim lived only three miles from a minor league stadium and took advantage of […]
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It’s not often that Sports Travel and Tours travelers get to see our company’s home base, nestled in an all-New-England kind of town in western Massachusetts with roughly 3,000 residents. But that’s exactly what’s going to happen in June as part of 2019’s Major Minor Northeast tour. Since 2011, tour guide Gary Laprade has been […]
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For about 10 years, a brochure highlighting Sports Travel and Tours’ baseball-themed travel packages kept showing up on Manual “Manny” Cotla’s doorstep in South San Francisco, California. Manny would simply tuck the brochure aside, too busy caring for his two daughters to think seriously about a baseball getaway. In 2018, Manny, now 58, realized his […]
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It may be football and hockey season now, but it’s already time to start thinking about the 2019 baseball season because we’ve developed and announced our line-up of adventures! Featuring classics like Windy City Plus and Central Express, our season next year will also hold some newer trip options such as Ocean, Desert, Mountains and […]
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