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…