2012 Baseball RoadTrip is about to take off! Look at STUFF from the past!

Hello friends and fans.
Welcome back to your blogging ballpark.
We missed blogging in 2011 but are ready to go this year!

A re-cap of Baseball Roadtrip history:
Every summer my wife and son go off to Arizona or San Diego to visit her brothers while I've been at home.  To balance our vacation time, Wyatt and I began to take roadtrips to all kinds of baseball venues -- majors, minors, independents, youth and while at it swing by college campuses and dive head first into waterparks.  A FEW of our visits include:

2008 (Wyatt was 8):
Yankee Stadium, Phillies, Orioles and Harrisburg Senators.

2009:
Boston Red Sox, Hudson Valley Renegades, Connecticut Defenders, Eastern Regional Little League Championship in Bristol CT, Phillies, Orioles, UConn, Boston College, Lake Compounce Amusement Park , Phillies Playoffs.

2010:
Pittsburgh Pirates, Dayton Dragons, Cincinnati Reds, Charleston WV Power, Salem VA Red Sox, Ohio State University, Virginia Tech, The Beach Water Park, York Revolution.

2011:
Washington Nationals, Lakewood NJ Blue Claws, Reading Phillies, Little League World Series, State College Spikes, Harrisburg Senators, Phillies Playoffs.

The Stuff
Of course, when one hits the ballparks with this frequency you discover how to position yourself to catch batting practice balls, collect game used bats, grab line-up cards and get autographs!  The loot below includes:

Yankee Stadium ball hit by Jason Gaimbi, Red Sox ball hit by then Tiger Curtis Granderson, Robinson Cano ball hit at Camden Yards -- both knees bloodied on that one, Jason Werth ball, and autographs...Stephen Strasberg, Bryce Harper, Pudge Rodriguez, Placido Polanco, and future Commissioner of Baseball Governor Ed Rendell --- okay, NOT.

Of course, my hope is that Wyatt turns 21 and these balls are replaced by various samples of mircobrews.

Check back for daily updates and the 2012 itinerary.  Oh, please forgive the typos, youth baseball managers only know how to write-up pitching rotations!