Margaret Engel | Bruce Adams

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Not surprisingly, this is a great book for the family that loves baseball. The authors set out with their 8-year-old daughter, 5-year-old son, and a worthy goal: "to help families plan realistic trips that include baseball." To that end, they traveled over 50,000 miles and cheered on over 110 major- and minor-league teams, from the Durham Bulls to the Bronx Bombers. They then divided the best stadiums they saw, as well as the best hotels, restaurants, and attractions that surround them, into 30 long-weekend trips spanning the entire country.

The book is also a great resource for any family that doesn't want to spend their vacation trudging a well-worn path from monument to state park to fast-food restaurant. The authors have high standards for what a family vacation should be, and for what kids should see and do when they travel. Fortunately, they also have a reasonable understanding of what you can expect your kids to sit through. The supplementary attractions and restaurants that accompany the ballpark listings reveal this--they favor down-home diners over chains, living history over moribund museums, the authentic over the synthetic. If you don't know much about baseball, or haven't traveled much with children, the book makes an excellent cribsheet. But even if you've taken the brood to Cooperstown and back a dozen times, you're likely to learn something new.

Like a trip to the ballpark, the family vacation isn't so much about where you go or what you do, but the people you do it with. Traveling, or going to a game, can bring families together in a special way--why else would we put up with the hassle? This guide reflects a wonderful awareness of that fact, and a willingness to make the most of it. Not just a digest of ballparks, the book is a celebration of that other national pastime, the family vacation. As both, it is a stirring success. --Andrew Nieland

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1 Okay for minor leagues, limited for major leagues.
I found this book to be extremely limited for someone interested in visiting major league ballparks. Many of them have been left out (Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Montreal to name a few). Areas in which there are more than one team, only one team is mentioned (the book mentions that Chicago is one of the cities that has two teams, but neglects to mention the White Sox at all; and Shea stadium in New York is listed in the "Other New York Baseball" section, but it is listed after Ebbett's Field and the Polo Grounds which don't exist anymore). The book does seem to have a great deal of information on minor league baseball teams, however. I found Fields of Dreams, (the new, revised edition) to be more helpful in planning my trips.

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2 A Must Read for any baseball fan!
If you are planning a trip or even if you just want a little insight into the wonderful world of minor league baseball then this is the book for you. Packed with information on minor league ballparks and the teams that occupy them. Tips on where to stay, what to eat, and what to do. Don't miss this great book.

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Florence Flask was ... dressing for the opera when she turned to her

husband and screamed, "Erlenmeyer!  My joules!  Someone has stolen my

joules!"



"Now, now, my dear," replied her husband, "keep your balance and reflux

a moment.  Perhaps they're mislead."



"No, I know they're stolen," cried Florence.  "I remember putting them

in my burette ... We must call a copper."



Erlenmeyer did so, and the flatfoot who turned up, one Sherlock Ohms,

said the outrage looked like the work of an arch-criminal by the name

of Lawrence Ium.



"We must be careful -- he's a free radical, ultraviolet, and

dangerous.  His girlfriend is a chlorine at the Palladium.  Maybe I can

catch him there."  With that, he jumped on his carbon cycle in an

activated state and sped off along the reaction pathway ...

		-- Daniel B. Murphy, "Precipitations"





A Severe Strain on the Credulity

	As a method of sending a missile to the higher, and even to the

highest parts of the earth's atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard's rocket

is a practicable and therefore promising device. It is when one considers the

multiple-charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that one begins to doubt...

for after the rocket quits our air and really starts on its journey, its

flight would be neither accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the

charges it then might have left.  Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in

Clark College and countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not

know the relation of action to re-action, and of the need to have something

better than a vacuum against which to react... Of course he only seems to

lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.

		-- New York Times Editorial, 1920