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Victory Field, Indianapolis (AAA #21 - Will baseball be one of the Big Four sports in 2125?)

Indianapolis is a city that doesn’t have major league baseball, but it does have other “major league” teams (the NFL Colts and the NBA Pacers), as well as the event that draws, as far as I can tell, the largest single-day paid attendance of any sporting event in the U.S., year after year, the Indianapolis 500. Plus, Indy hosted the NCAA Final Four last weekend, another huge sporting event. So baseball is not the biggest sporting event in town here, but major league baseball is clearly one of the “Big Four” professional sports in the U.S., and has been for a hundred years. Will it stay that way? Defining the Big Four Most references at the moment, including the Wikipedia article , refer to a “Big Four” of professional sports leagues in the U.S. and Canada, MLB, the National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the National Hockey League (NHL). Although I love the NHL (the only sport other than baseball where I’ve ever had a season ticket to a profe...
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AutoZone Park, Memphis (AAA #20 - The Joy of Logistics, The Trouble with Weather)

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           A part of the fun of this quest is the planning, at least for me. Kerry just stays away from it, except for answering questions about preferences. This is a fairly short trip, two games, three nights, but there were plenty of decisions that went into the logistics we ended up with. And one of the factors that goes into all the planning is the weather, which you don't really know until it happens.      There are three choices that we’ve made throughout the quest, and which, in fact, we make for virtually all of our travel. 1) We fly on American Airlines, 2) we stay at Marriott hotels, and 3) we rent cars from Enterprise. I won’t claim that any of those are the best at what they do, but they are all options for every MLB or AAA city, and building up “miles” or “points” leads to perks that are worthwhile. We get the occasional free night’s stay or airline trip with miles, and even an occasional free upgrade to First Class (which hap...
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