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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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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Join us this June for one of our biggest offerings: the East Coast Extravaganza, which is really two trips in one! To offer our travelers options, we combine two old favorites at Sports Travel and Tours: the Mid-Atlantic and Triple Play. The complete package, which runs from Saturday, June 16 to Sunday, June 24, includes […]
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When Billy Canavan first asked his wife, Lori Baumann, to partner with him in leading a sports trip, she was quite reluctant. Billy, who has led treks for us for decades and works full time as a teacher, says he dragged Lori into it. “She doesn’t realize how good she is at it,” he says. […]
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For sports fans hoping to enjoy extended week-long getaways, Sports Travel and Tours has dozens of traditional baseball trips. And now we’re also your connection to time outs from work and life with our new four-day Shortstops trips. Whereas most travel packages include stops in multiple cities, Shortstops allow travelers to thoroughly explore cities […]
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