September means it’s time to plan the next season’s baseball trips, and this makes Sports Travel and Tours President Jay Smith feel like he’s assembling a giant jigsaw puzzle. With so many factors that come into play, Jay’s work is no simple science. “It’s not as easy as just picking games and developing an itinerary,” […]
Read More
Visiting Cooperstown, New York, the historic birthplace of baseball, had been on Lamar Williams’ bucket list for years. An avid baseball fan all his life and a former 25-year Little League umpire, Lamar has followed the new inductees into Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall of Fame as far back as 1974, with the induction of Mickey Mantle. […]
Read More
For the Laughlin family, a love of baseball has become a family tradition. Dave Laughlin taught his son Jeff how to play the game and coached him on his little league team. Now, Jeff does the same for his two sons, 6-year-old Andy and 9-year-old Adam. Because baseball has been an integral part of the […]
Read More
Because of their Chicago roots, Alan and Sharon Baranowski of Elburn, Illinois, have always been diehard Cubs fans. They’ve attended games since they were both children, alongside fathers who passed on their love of Wrigley Field and the Cubs. Sharon even started keeping her own scorecards for every Cubs game she attended. She later began […]
Read More
As a Chicago native, Peg Champley has always been a die-hard Cubs fan. Even after she moved to Chester, Virginia, Peg was able to watch the Cubs play against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, about a two-hour drive from her home. Little did she know, her newfound closeness to the Nationals would complicate her […]
Read More