Incomplete: 100 Games in a Calendar Year
aggiemacI want to see 100 baseball games in person over the course of a year. This is at any level.
**Edited in January 2025 – My wife and I decided to complete this together. Our rule went from 1-inning to 3-inning minimum. It also needs to include first pitch plus innings 1-3 (in case of rain-out or previous commitment which required our early leaving) or late arrival and getting at least the final 3-innings. We have a leather-bound scorebook that my wife keeps score with and we get a picture of the 2 of us, usually with the scoreboard in the background, for each game. If we can get a picture with the mascot, procure ice cream helmets, caps, or other souvenirs, and/or meet and play catch with interesting individuals, those are added benefits.
Don’t know that I’ll ever have 100, but I’ve got 37 this year – and I might have hit my upper limit. Haven’t seen a game in three weeks! Saw a lot of high school games at fields that I hadn’t been to before around the southeast Texas area.
I didn’t get to any HS games this spring but we do have a new collegiate wood bat team here this year. That has made up most of the games I’ve been to.
My record is somewhere around 75 in 2007. 100 is a lofty goal! Completely agree with you on the 1 inning rule. So many people say you have to stay for the entire game, or until the game is official after the 5th, but with all the parks I’ve been to and now having kids I just don’t subscribe to that. Certainly not advocating to leave a game early if you can help it, but if you’re there for at least an inning and there is proof you were there, that counts as a game and as a stadium visit.
I certainly don’t plan to only see an inning or 2 of most games but I think if I’m there to see both teams field and bat, that is enough to count for being at the game.