NEW YORK, NY The Yankees returned home and at first-pitch, the temperature was near 100 degrees in Yankee Stadium. The heat was turned up even higher as the Yankees had 17 hits and 17 runs topping the Oakland Athletics 17 – 7. Featuring a 9-run third inning, the Yankees skipped BP and saved their energy […]
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Dave Baker’s Baseball Dream Tour: Stadium #19, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
The home of the Oakland Athletics is not a warm and intimate atmosphere for fans. The stadium was built in 1966 and has not had significant upgrades since then, it is sometimes called the Oakland Mausoleum because of it’s sterile concrete appearance.The A’s share the facility with the Oakland Raiders and it looks more like […]
Read MoreDave Baker’s Baseball Dream Tour: Stadium #18, Safeco Field, Seattle
It was a wild and crazy day. After a 4:30 am wake up, 6 hours of plane flights, 3 hours of wait time in airports and a 3 hour time difference, the Yankees and Mariners dropped a 12 inning 4 hour game on us. It was a cool and breezy evening in the Northwest as […]
Read MoreDave Baker’s Baseball Dream Tour: Stadium #11, Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
After the day game at Citi Field we went back to the hotel in downtown Manhattan. We had arranged to try and meet a long time family friend for dinner if he could break away from work in time. Ashby Jones is the star legal reporter for the Wall Street Journal and had gone to […]
Read MoreDave Baker’s Baseball Dream Tour: Stadium #9, Orioles Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore
Orioles Park at Camden Yards is the original retro park about 20 years old but in great shape. It had rained almost all day but by 4:00 the skies cleared and there was never a doubt that the game would be played. My lovely wife has met the limit of her baseball endurance and has […]
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