It's official. It's happening. And here's my (likely final) schedule of games...
Friday July 22
AA Birmingham (CWS) @ Rocket City (LAA), 6:30 pm
Saturday July 23
AAA St. Paul (MIN) @ Indianapolis (PIT), 7 pm
Sunday July 24
AAA Columbus (CLE) @ Toledo (DET), 4 pm
Tuesday July 26
AA Harrisburg (WSH) at Akron (CLE), 12 pm
Wednesday July 27 through Sunday July 31
National Sports Collectors Convention, Atlantic City
Thursday July 28
DL Williamsport @ Trenton, 7 pm**
Friday July 29
Hi-A Jersey Shore (PHI) @ Wilmington (WSH), 6:30 pm
Saturday July 30
AtL Lancaster @ Staten Island, Time TBA**
Tuesday August 2
AA Erie (DET) @ Portland (BOS), 6 pm
Wednesday August 3
AAA Durham (TBR) @ Worcester (BOS), 12 pm
AA Richmond (SFG) @ New Hampshire (TOR), 7 pm
Thursday August 4
AA Bowie (BAL) @ Harrisburg (WSH), 6:30 pm
Friday August 5
MLB Pittsburgh @ Baltimore, 7 pm**
Saturday August 6
AA Hartford (COL) @ Reading (PHI), 6:45 pm
Sunday August 7
AAA Buffalo (TOR) @ Scranton Wilkes-Barre (NYY), 1 pm**
AAA Syracuse (NYM) @ Lehigh Valley (PHI), 5:30 pm
Tuesday August 9
Low-A Lynchburg (CLE) @ Charleston (TBR), 7 pm
Wednesday August 10
Hi-A Jersey Shore (PHI) @ Greensboro (PIT), 12 pm**
Low-A Salem (BOS) @ Kannapolis (CWS), 7 pm**
Thursday August 11
AA Montgomery (TBR) @ Chattanooga (CIN), 7:15 pm
Friday August 12
AA Northwest Arkansas (KCR) @ Arkansas (SEA), 7 pm
Saturday August 13
AA San Antonio (SDP) @ Frisco (TEX), 7 pm**
Okay, it's not final, but it's pretty close. Anything with a double asterisk (**) is subject to change.
Draft League and Atlantic League may not be worth the time when I could spend it just relaxing in Atlantic City.
The MLB lockout is still a thing right now. If it is in August, then we'll go to Aberdeen instead.
It may not be worth the scramble to have to zip from Scranton to Allentown and miss a few late innings and/or postgame in Scranton or pregame and some early innings in Allentown.
I may not want to be getting on the road at 6:30 am to get to Greensboro.
There's a possibility that High-A Winston-Salem is playing at the same time as Low-A Kannapolis, and I'll gladly take the higher level.
And I'll be seeing San Antonio in Frisco in May so I may not want to do it again when I can just spend Saturday arriving and recovering.
There are only two teams we'll see twice (Harrisburg and Jersey Shore) and nine organizations where we won't see one of their teams at all. If you go across my whole life, after this the Marlins will be the only team where I have not seen them or one of their minor league affiliates live and in-person.
I don't know what all I will do on here related to it, but I do plan on doing video as much as possible at each stop.
21 games, 6500 miles on the road. I'm thinking 500 autographs is a pretty solid goal for it, not including what I purchase at the National-- just IP graphs. In 2018, I set a goal of 300 and got 343 across 12 games (and 574 including purchases). 500 is doable across 16 to 21 games, especially if I do some custom 4x6 photos and grab team sets.


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