American Family Field, Milwaukee (The highs and lows of the third season of trips)
Some of the best and worst of our 2025 travels: Best name for a ballpark food kiosk: B éi sbowl, in Miami. It’s a double play on words, since 1) they sell bowls (with quinoa or something like that as a base), and 2) the bowls have a distinct Latin flavor to them, and “baseball” translates as “b éi sbol” in Spanish. Best ballpark food (tie): B éi sbowl (the food is the other thing to like about the place, which is why we ate there both times we went to the stadium), and the Philly cheesesteaks in Philadelphia (we ate one or two in town, and the ballpark ones were just as good). Most disappointing ballpark food: Loonie Dogs in Toronto. On Tuesday nights, they sell “loonie dogs” for $1 Canadian (the Canadian dollar coin is known as a “loonie” because of the picture of the loon on it), and keep a count of the number they sell on the scoreboard. The night we were there, it was more than 60,000, roughly two per attendee. I love the promotion. However, the dogs themselves w...