The springtime cliché is that April showers bring May flowers, and I’m sure that is the case for many people and places. For me, April brings the AAG Annual Meeting and usually early-season baseball games. As covered in a post previewing my trip (read it here), early April meant leading a field trip of fellow geographers to attend a Portland Sea Dogs game and meeting up with baseball author Josh Pahigian (Twitter: @JoshPahigian). I had hoped to have about 20 people sign-up for the field trip, but alas only seven people besides myself registered for the trip. So instead of riding in a bus, I ended up renting a minivan…
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My photo has been published in a baseball book
Since I started this blog, I’ve begun to interact with a lot of other baseball bloggers. I’ve referenced some of them in my posts like Craig Wieczorkiewicz (Twitter: @MWLtraveler) and Malcolm MacMillan (Twitter: @BallparkGuide), and most people know about MiLB.com’s Ben Hill (Twitter: @bensbiz). In addition to interacting with these other bloggers, I’ve also made interacted and wrote about a baseball travel writer who has written numerous books about visiting Major League and Minor League stadiums: Josh Pahigian (Twitter: @joshpahigian). You can find an inventory of all his books on Amazon.com here. Last April, he contacted me about his latest project and asked if he could include a photo I…
