Friends, two of my passions are trains and baseball. (Others include opera, animals, and Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope; but those aren't relevant...except to my screen name.)
A friend regularly goes on Buckley's Baseball Tours, which sure makes the logistics of a multi-city ballpark tour easy, but chugging around in an air-conditioned coach doesn't appeal to me.
Has anyone tried a do-it-yourself baseball tour on Amtrak? The two cities I know best, DC and Pittsburgh, have ballparks in easy walking or transit distance from the train station. I'm wondering about other cities: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Kansas City, Boston, NY, Baltimore, etc.? Goal is to avoid having to rent a car. Ideally, train schedule would permit one city, one ballpark, per day, but that may be delusional.
A friend regularly goes on Buckley's Baseball Tours, which sure makes the logistics of a multi-city ballpark tour easy, but chugging around in an air-conditioned coach doesn't appeal to me.
Has anyone tried a do-it-yourself baseball tour on Amtrak? The two cities I know best, DC and Pittsburgh, have ballparks in easy walking or transit distance from the train station. I'm wondering about other cities: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Kansas City, Boston, NY, Baltimore, etc.? Goal is to avoid having to rent a car. Ideally, train schedule would permit one city, one ballpark, per day, but that may be delusional.