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Las Cruces, New Mexico (The logistics of a quest to see all the ballparks)

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We’re off on the first trip of Year Two of our quest to visit all 30 of the MLB ballparks plus all 30 of the AAA minor league parks over a five-year period. Today’s trip was just a four-hour drive to get started on a tour of the Texas parks we haven’t seen. The image is of the appropriately-named Texas Canyon in southeastern Arizona, a very scenic area that we saw, as we see large swaths of the country, through the car window. Half the fun of planning a years-long ballpark odyssey is figuring out the logistics to make it work. As Kerry reminds me, I’m a person who loves spreadsheets (she was surprised when she found out I didn’t have a spreadsheet that listed all my spreadsheets), and trying to figure out how to get to all the parks with the least amount of doubling back and the fewest random airplane flights to places we don’t have any other reason to be. That’s not to say that neither of those will happen this year. Last year, we covered the Great Plains teams and a few Midwest t