I bleed blue and orange now, but it wasn’t always so. In fact, I never thought much about baseball until I started dating my now-husband, Steve. And I certainly wasn’t planning vacations around Major League Baseball games.
No, I was trying to get to Croatia before it became too popular. I was orchestrating a budget-friendly island-hopping trip around Hawai’i. I was looking up the best local restaurants serving fish cakes and cou-cou for an upcoming week in Barbados.
But before long, Steve, an avid New York Mets fan, was inviting me to join him on his quest to catch a game at every single active MLB stadium. This meant long weekends in cities I’d never considered before—St. Louis, Missouri; Detroit, Michigan; Minneapolis, Minnesota—and others I had. Like, Boston, Chicago, Washington, DC.
Sure, I wanted to travel to Seattle to see the Space Needle and eat oysters at Pike Place Market. But hanging out at a bar outside the Mariners’ ballpark with a bunch of rabid Mets’ fans? That activity hadn’t quite made my list.