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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Revisiting Stadiums Brings Back Memories for Lifelong Baseball Fan
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 […]
Read MoreMajor Minor Tour Highlights Northeast Towns Big and Small
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 […]
Read MoreSports Travel and Tours Announces 2019 Baseball Trips
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 […]
Read MoreCovering All Bases with Talks by Retired MLB Umpire Al Clark
Sports Travel and Tours President Jay Smith is making sure baseball fans get every opportunity to engage retired American league and Major League Baseball umpire Al Clark, connecting Al to fans on the other side of the globe and expanding his “Ump’s Eye View” presentations for 2018. Thanks to Jay’s role in the last year as chairman of […]
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