This work follows the journey Peter Taylor undertook during the summer of 2007 (and a bit of 2009), when he set out to achieve a long held ambition and see a baseball game in every major league ballpark, a minor league game in those states without a major league franchise, plus the All-Star game and the post-season. His adventures along the way include throwing out a first pitch in Connecticut, becoming a TV reporter for the post-season, and undergoing an eye operation. It also looks whimsically at America’s pastime, and America, through the eyes of an Englishman, and how we are, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, “two nations separated by a common language.”

A former teacher, Peter Taylor works for the Office of National Statistics and lives in Byfield, England.

Peter Taylor
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 215
Bibliographic Info: 16 photos, index
Copyright Date: 2011
pISBN: 978-0-7864-6460-9
eISBN: 978-0-7864-8647-2
Imprint: McFarland

Preface      1

Virginia      5
North Carolina      9
South Carolina      11
Georgia      13
Florida      17
Alabama      23
Mississippi      24
Tennessee      26
Illinois      28
Missouri (Part One)      35
Kansas      37
Missouri (Part Two)      38
Arkansas      41
Oklahoma      42
Texas (Part One)      44
Louisiana      46
Texas (Part Two)      48
New Mexico      51
California (Part One)      61
Alaska      64
Washington      69
Montana      71
Wyoming      73
Utah      75
Idaho      77
Oregon      79
All-Star Week      80
California (Part Two)      87
Nevada      89
North Dakota      90
Minnesota      94
Nebraska      95
South Dakota      97
Iowa      98
Wisconsin      102
Indiana      104
Kentucky      106
Ohio      109
Michigan      112
Canada      114
New York      116
West Virginia      122
Vermont      125
Maine      126
Rhode Island      128
New Hampshire      130
Delaware      131
Connecticut      133
Pennsylvania      136
New Jersey      141
Cooperstown      143
D.C.      146
Maryland      150
Massachusetts      151
Hawaii      153
Divisional Series, Chicago      158
Divisional Series, Cleveland      162
Championship Series      164
The World Series      173
An Interlude      179
Spring Training, 2009      181
Arizona      184
California (Part Three)      188
California (Part Four)      191
California (Part Five)      193
Colorado      197

Conclusion      199
Index      201