will england :: motorcycle : baseball grand tour

New for 2014! It's Back! TeamStrange is bringing back the Baseball Grand Tour for their 30th anniversary. News from a dozen years ago - I finished! Completed the tour with just enough points to be a finisher. The first, and last, tour I've ever completed. So, of course I have to do this one again! All the map links are junk; Yahoo has changed their URLs. I'll be updating and confirming this through April.

Photos from 2002 have been up for a while - feel free to browse my Baseball Grand Tour Photos

First Posted March 8, 2002

Last Update Jan 13, 2014

My efforts and plans to hit the baseball grand tour rally out of the park.

Main Rally Page

Update: August: Ok - Point total is now 12! Still can get 5 points locally, and have 4 more scheduled for TexSTOC trip.

Update: June: Much slower going than I had planned this year. Ah well.

Update: April 22: VFR is still dead - bad charging system. And, looks like they have changed the scoring to require 30 points now for an entry into the Aerostich drawing. Bastards! Now I have to get *one* more stadium.

Update: April 2002 - the Concours is dead. Long live the Concours. So, I bought a 1997 VFR. Which is also dead. Maybe before October, I'll actually be able to *ride*.

March, 2002: Finally got entered - rider # 25! So, here are my planned hits this year:

Special Bonuses

Negro League Baseball Museum, Kansas City Missouri (3 points)
Just down the road
DONE! Field Of Dreams (3 points)
800 miles, 17 hours, Check out their website
Louisville KY, Louisville Slugger Museum (3 points)
1040 miles, 20.75 hours

9 points

Stadiums

Kansas City, Kauffman Stadium (1 point)
Just down the road
DONE! Wichita, KS Lawrence Dumont Stadium (1 point)
370 miles, 9 hours
Omaha, Nebraska, Rosenblatt Stadium (1 point)
390 miles, 7.5 hours
DONE! Des Moines, IA, Sec Taylor Stadium (1 point)
420 miles, 8.5 hours
DONE! Tulsa Drillers @ Drillers Stadium (1 point)
467 miles, 12 hours,
DONE! St. Louis, Busch Stadium (1 point)
522 miles, 10 hours
Burlington, IA Community Field (1 point)
612 miles, 15 hours
DONE! Cedar Rapids, IA Vetrans Memorial (1 point)
670 miles, 12.5 hours
Oklahoma City, Southwestern Bell Bricktown Ballpark (1 point)
710 miles, 13 hours
DONE! Davenport, IA John O'Donnell Stadium (1 point)
765 miles, 14.5 hours
Peoria, IL Pete Vonachen Stadium (1 point)
784 miles, 17 hours
Clinton, IA Riverview Stadium (1 point)
820 miles, 16 hours
Little Rock, AR Ray Winder Field (1 point)
850 miles, 20 hours
DONE! Geneva, IL Elfstrom Stadium (1 point)
1019 miles, 19.5 hours
Lousiville, KY Louisville Slugger Field (1 point)
1042 miles, 20.75 hours
DONE! Chicago, IL Comiskey Park (1 point)
1088 miles, 20 hours
DONE! Chicago, IL Wrigley Field (1 point)
1100 miles, 21 hours
Texas Rangers @ The Ballpark in Arlington, TX (1 point)
1137 miles, 20.5 hours
Denver, CO Coors Field (1 point)
1208 miles, 22 hours
Colorado Springs, CO Sky Sox Stadium (1 point)
1162 miles, 22 hours
Dell Diamond @ Round Rock, TX (1 point)
1414 miles, 28 hours.
Midland, TX Christensen Stadium (1 point)
1540 miles, 33 hours

22 points for Stadiums, 31 total points

Not a top 5 finish, but, if I rode each one separately, nearly 20,000 miles of riding in 6 or 7 months. Fortunately, I can group em a bit, hit all the Iowa / Illinois ones in one day and so on. Still it's going to make for a fun summer!

One of the reasons I'm not shooting for a top 5 finish is the new job - no vacation time, so all of these rides need to be able to be completed in less than a weekend.

Keep watching this page; I'll add subpages for each stadium that I hit with photos and ride reports. Assuming the bike holds together, that is.

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