The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip, 2nd A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums

The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip is part travel manual, part ballpark atlas, part baseball history book, part restaurant and city guide, and, not least, part epic narrative. Years ago, two baseball fanatics and entertaining writers set out to create a comprehensive guide to all the diverse and fascinating ballparks throughout the country. For the second edition, they've done it again, providing updated information on every venue from Boston to L.A., plus brand new chapters for the brand new parks, like the new Yankee Stadium, Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park, the new Busch Stadium in St. Louis, the Mets' Citi Field, San Diego's PETCO Park, Nationals Park in Washington, DC, the Twins' Target Field, and Miami's Marlins Ballpark. With this book, you can skillfully plan and fully appreciate a road-trip or a visit to any single park. Included are ticket and travel information, a detailed guide to the best and worst seats in each park, folklore and statistics on each park, tips on each park's trademark foods, and profiles of nearby sports bars and baseball attractions, all within a lively and fully illustrated narrative that reminds us that baseball is often the ultimate metaphor for the important things in life. Funny and irreverent and loaded with information, the bookencompasses all the essential elements of a full-blown baseball road-trip.

Josh Pahigian is the author of The Seventh Inning Stretch: Baseball's Most Essential and Inane Debates, 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out (finalist for the 2008 Casey Award), and The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road-Trip (all from Lyons Press), among other books. He has written articles for a variety of print- and Web-based publications, including the ESPN.com Sports Travel site. He lives in Buxton, Maine. Kevin O'Connell is a west coast sports fan living in the east. He’s the writer of the short film Houses and Rooms and co-author of Why I Hate the Yankees. He lives with his wife Meghan and his daughters Maeve and Rory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.