So I Sunday, April 10, 2022, I watched the Texas Rangers play the Toronto Blue Jays in the Rogers Centre. That in itself isn't a very special event. There have been literally millions of people that havev seen a baseball game in the ballpark that opened as the SkyDome back in 1989. Heck, the Blue Jays led the American League in attendance every year from 1989 through 1994 with numbers that regularly broke 3 million.
However, it was a very important milestone in my own personal life. After all, the Rogers Centre is the 34th stadium where I've seen a Major League Game. However, four of those ballparks are no longer in use, which means that it took until now when I completed the journey that I'm sure many baseball fans desire: I have seen a game in every active Major League Baseball stadium.
I'm not sure exactly how many people have completed this journey. I used to think it was a lot, but then I realized that teams are constantly changing their ballparks, most recently my hometown Texas Rangers. They opened up their brand new Globe Life Field in 2020, but thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic there were no fans in the stands until 2021. Sure, they led the league with 2,110,258 fans in 2021, but surely not every one of those 2,110,258 were missing only that one ballpark to complete their set.
Anyways, I should be proud of my own accomplishment, even though the only reason that I was able to make this trek was because my parents' middle-class upbringing allowed me to go into school and enter a reasonably well-paying profession, which gave me the means with which to travel to all these cities. And now to rub it in I am going to be sharing my story about my visits to each of these stadiums.
