2019: California - 15 ballparks
2021: Carolinas - 16
2022: Pacific Northwest - 16
2023: Mid-Atlantic - 20
2024: Eastern Midwest- 23
2025: Western Midwest - 20
2026: The South - 19 in 22 days, starts May 3!
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Just a 116-page document full of research on the teams, ballparks, cities, sights, routes, and restaurants we'll experience on our Southern Baseball Road Trip, starting May 3.
Normal vacation planning.
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We finished our journey with a drive back to Kansas City, indulging in one last BBQ platter before visiting the excellent Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Chapter 42 (the last!) of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
www.mappingthepath.com/negro-league...
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Dad and I traveled across Iowa for the final ballpark of our road trip and the biggest venue of them all — Charles Schwab Field, home of the @CWSOmaha
Chapter 41 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️⚾️ www.mappingthepath.com/college-worl...
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Into every road trip, a little rain must fall. Our game was postponed, but we made a brief visit to Community Field, home of the Prospect League Burlington Bees
Chapter 40 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️ mappingthepath.com/burlington-b...
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Heading down the homestretch of our journey, we visited Burlington, Iowa, where we drove down the crookedest street in the world before a tour of the town
Chapter 39 of the 2025 Western Midwest baseball Road trip:
➡️ www.mappingthepath.com/burlington-i...
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Where can you ride a 110-foot-high Ferris wheel during a ballgame? At Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, Iowa, home of the Quad Cities River Bandits
Chapter 38 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️ ⚾️ mappingthepath.com/quad-cities-...
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We toured downtown Davenport, Iowa, visiting the Figge Art Museum and learning a bit about the region’s German heritage.
Chapter 37 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️ mappingthepath.com/davenport-iowa
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It's striking for a ballpark
Looks fun!
We visited NelsonCorp Field, another historic ballpark in Iowa, to see the Prospect League Clinton LumberKings battle the Danville Dans
Chapter 36 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
mappingthepath.com/clinton-lumb...
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Dad and I got a chance to tour the Field of Dreams Movie Site before heading to Clinton, Iowa, to have Chicken George and learn about lumber.
Chapter 35 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️ mappingthepath.com/clinton-iowa
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👕 The shirts are in! 👕
The Southern Baseball Road Trip starts May 3!
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It was a HUGE night with the Minor League Cedar Rapids Kernels: a first pitch, live and taped interviews, incredible ballpark food, and a walk-off win for the home team
Chapter 34 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️⚾️ mappingthepath.com/cedar-rapids...
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Our tour of Cedar Rapids began with Czech Village and its excellent museum and finished with a bounty of Midwestern art
Chapter 33 of the Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️ mappingthepath.com/cedar-rapids...
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I know where this year's hats will go, but after that, I'm going to need to get creative. The hats are advancing on my family photos like an army!
We went back to the collegiate Northwoods League to see the Waterloo Bucks take on the Rochester Honkers in a doubleheader at Riverfront Stadium in Waterloo, Iowa.
Chapter 32 of the Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
⚾️➡️ www.mappingthepath.com/waterloo-bucks
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I have hats from 102 ballparks across Minor League, independent, and collegiate summer leagues. That scope means I have hundreds more to go. 😀
I'll get ONE hat when Dad and I visit the Minor League Biloxi Shuckers (Brewers Double-A affiliate) on May 24 for the grand finale of our 19-game Southern Baseball Road Trip.
Your pick? (Poll in Comments)
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Here’s what I have so far!
We spend more time in Omaha before driving to Waterloo, Iowa, where we learn about one of the most dominant competitors in any sport
Chapter 31 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️ www.mappingthepath.com/waterloo-iowa
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Dad and I visited Haymarket Park, home of the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers and the independent Lincoln Saltdogs, for a wet Sunday ballgame
Chapter 30 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️⚾️ www.mappingthepath.com/lincoln-salt...
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We make the short drive from Omaha to Lincoln, Nebraska, stopping at a Vietnam Veterans Memorial before exploring the Nebraska state capital
Chapter 29 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️ www.mappingthepath.com/omaha-to-lin...
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It was Runza Night at Werner Park near Omaha, where Dad and I saw45-year-old Rich Hill lead the Triple-A Omaha StormChasers to victory over the Iowa Cubs
Chapter 28 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️⚾️ mappingthepath.com/omaha-storm-...
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We continued south to Omaha, learning a little history and exploring the origins of the Reuben sandwich before taking in an outstanding art museum
Chapter 27 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️ www.mappingthepath.com/omaha-nebraska
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I like 2 and 4 the best. I don't have a color scheme quite like 4, but 2 is awfully hard to resist!
Glad you're enjoying it! I'm doing this across multiple platforms to avoid staring with indecision and a wall of hats for 20 minutes. 🙂
We made a trip to The Birdcage to see the independent Sioux Falls Canaries and a celebration of the greatest home run hitter in American Association history
Chapter 26 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️ mappingthepath.com/sioux-falls-...
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I'll get ONE hat when Dad and I visit the Minor League Rocket City Trash Pandas (Angels Double-A affiliate) on May 23 for Game 18 of our 19-game Southern Baseball Road Trip.
I'm going with the main logo. Your pick?
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We got lost in a maze of cornfields, then returned to South Dakota to see Sioux Falls, visiting its eponymous water feature
Chapter 25 of the 2025 Western Midwest Baseball Road Trip:
➡️ mappingthepath.com/sioux-falls-...
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I got the one on the left. The selection was small, and they didn’t have the two-color hat the players wore that night
