For the next two Saturdays, the History Channel will be focusing on baseball stadiums -- just in time for the start of the regular season. by Joe Mock, President of Grand Slam Enterprises and Webmaster of BASEBALLPARKS.COM
Are you ready for baseball season? The History Channel will definitely get you psyched!
For the next two Saturdays, the History Channel will be focusing on baseball stadiums -- just in time for the start of the regular season.
One of the channel's longest-running series, Modern Marvels, is airing two episodes that baseball fans won't want to miss. This Saturday at 7:00 p.m. Eastern, you'll be treated to an in-depth look at how the dome changed sports stadiums forever. One week later, also at 7:00, Modern Marvels will show you the history -- and future -- of the baseball park.
The producers of the show found some interesting guests to help tell the story of these stadiums. Not only will you hear from team owners and architects, you'll also learn what some ballpark nuts have to say ... nuts like Eric Pastore of digitalballparks.com and, yes, yours truly, the webmaster of BASEBALLPARKS.COM.
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Thanks to all of you who made a point of speaking to me during my week in Arizona at spring training. You read about my appearances in our last newsletter, and you came and found me at the Cactus League games. I really enjoyed meeting so many of you!
I was spending most of my time at the exhibition games at the souvenir shops. That's so I could autograph items fans had purchased at the stores -- like in the photo to the left, which was taken at the store at HoHoKam Stadium in Mesa.
Of course, you can buy those same items online, and if you'd like for me to sign them, I'd be delighted to. You'll find the colorful Touring The Majors poster, the brand-new 2008 Baseball Travel Map, a tremendously useful -- and durable -- resource, and even my book, Joe Mock's Ballpark Guide. If you'd like for me to autograph any of these items, send me an e-mail right after you place the order to tell me so.
I'm so happy to autograph the poster because we make a donation to the Mike Coolbaugh Memorial Fund for every poster sold. As you probably know, Mike was the first-base coach who died tragically after being struck by a foul line drive last July. We're proud to partner with this fund to provide support to Mike's young family.
By the way, here are games I'll be attending over the next few weeks. If you're going to any of them, let me know. I'd love to get to meet you!
Tuesday, March 25 in Ft. Worth, TX -- TCU college baseball game
Friday, March 28 in Los Angeles, CA -- Dodgers exhibition game at Dodger Stadium
Saturday, March 29 in Los Angeles, CA -- Dodgers exhibition game at the Los Angeles Coliseum
Sunday, March 30 in Washington, DC -- Opening Day of the new Washington Nationals ballpark
Monday, March 31 in Baltimore, MD -- Opening Day for the Orioles
Tuesday, April 8 in North Little Rock, AR -- Arkansas Travelers home game
Thursday, April 10 in Springdale, AR -- Opening Day of the new Northwest Arkansas Naturals ballpark
Saturday, April 19 in Round Rock, TX -- Round Rock Express home game
If you haven't yet checked out our new Contest at BASEBALLPARKS.COM, you really should. The theme this time around is ballparks in movies and TV shows. Those who've already entered have commented that they've enjoyed it as much as any Contest we've ever done -- and we've done 45 of them over the years! ... Check the home page of BASEBALLPARKS.COM often, because I'm constantly updating it with current ballpark news ... Following my week-long stay in Arizona, I completely updated our Photo Album on all of the pro baseball parks in the state of Arizona. Take a look to see up-to-date shots of those great stadiums (if you haven't seen Tempe Diablo Stadium recently, you need to see how beautiful it is following its $20 million makeover), and let me know which park in the Grand Canyon State is your favorite ... Have you noticed that we keep an Archive of all of the links to news articles we've featured? Several times a month, I summarize the ballpark-news items we've featured, complete with the links to the original articles in newspapers and other websites ... Be watching the site for our in-depth reviews of new ballparks, because I'll be covering the first games at the fabulous new parks in Washington, DC and Springdale, Arkansas ... Have a very blessed Easter!
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