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For what it's worth, I spend a lot of time pursing baseball related activities.  Jim Caple wrote a great article for ESPN outling his personal opinion of what every baseball fan must do before they kick the bucket.

Then, there's the book, "The Baseball Fan's Bucket List: 162 Things You Must Do, See, Get, and Experience Before You Die" by Robert and Jenna Santelli. (No link, buy it where you want.)

These got me thinking about my own baseball bucket list.  Caple has 50 items, the Santelli's have 162, with a bit of crossover between the  two.  Here's mine, borrowing from those lists with a few items of my own.  It's really long and makes me wish I could focus my energy on anything else in my life the way I do baseball.  But that's another story.


 

 

 

 

 

 Completed items in blue

 

See the Mariners play in the World Series.

Attend a Fan Fest

Attend a fantasy camp

Attend a game in the Caribbean.

Attend a townball game in Minnesota

Attend AAA All-star game

Attend Annual Civil Rights game

Attend Cactus League games

Attend Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture

Attend Grapefruit league games

Attend Hall of Fame Classic weekend

Attend a Seattle Mariner Hall of Fame Induction

Attend Jackie Robinson Day

Attend performance of Bleacher Bums

Attend performance of Damn Yankees

Attend World Baseball Classic

Boo the Yankees in person.

Catch a foul ball. And then hand it to the nearest kid.

Coach a Little League team.

Collect baseball cards.

Create baseball reference library

Eat a hot-fudge sundae in a mini batting helmet.

Eat at a famous ballplayer’s restaurant

Sit in the bleachers at Wrigley Field on a sunny summer day.

Fix up a baseball field

Watch batting practice.

Get your favorite player's autograph.

Go to a batting cage

Go to an Old-Timers Day

Go to Japan's Koshien high school tournament

Hit a home run.

Go to Midnight Sun Classic

Go to Opening Day

Go to the MLB All-Star Game.

Host a minor league player

Join SABR.

Join the Baseball Reliquary

Kayak in McCovey Cove

Learn story behind Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Learn to figure important statistics

Learn to keep score.

Learn to throw a curveball.

Listen to Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech

Listen to the Great Baseball American Box

Listen to Vin Scully call an entire Dodgers game.

Oil your glove and stuff it under your mattress for the winter

Own a baseball antique

Own a classic baseball photograph

Own a piece of Baseball art

Own autograph baseball collection

Own Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

Own piece of vintage baseball clothing

Passionately argue in a bar over who belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Play Fantasy baseball in Rotisserie league

Play in a vintage base ball league

Play in Adult Baseball League

Play pepper.

Play Strat-O-Matic, APBA, or Dynasty League

Read "Ball Four"

Read "Nine Innings,"

Read "The Boys of Summer,"

Read "The Glory of Their Times"

Read "A False Spring"

Read "Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game"

Read "Baseball: A Literary Anthology"

Read "Moneyball"

Read "Only the Ball was White"

Read "Out of Left Field"

Read "Shoeless Joe"

Read the box scores religiously.

Read "The Science of Hitting"

Read "The Summer Game"

Read "The Teammates"

Read "The Universal Baseball Association"

Read the writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

Read "Veeck as in Wreck"

Read "You Know Me Al"

Recite "Casey at the Bat" and "Tinker to Evers to Chance."

Run around the bases after a big league game.

See a Cape Cod League game

See a Durham Bulls game

See a Single-A game

See AA game

See AAA International League game

See AAA Pacific Coast League game

Ongoing - See all MLB Ballparks

Ongoing - See as many Minor League Ballparks as possible

See an Independent League game

See an Interleague game

See Arizona Fall League game

See Cardinals play Cubs

See Dodgers play the Giants

See Rookie League game

See Short-season A game

See Yankees play the Red Sox

Shop for baseball memorabilia in Cooperstown

Spend a week at spring training.

Start a bobblehead collection

Subscribe to Baseball America

Take a baseball road trip

Take a baseball tour of Japan

Take a week-long road trip through the minors

Take in a local museum baseball exhibit

Take kid to his/her first major league game

Throw out First Pitch

Tour Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory

Tour the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Try to catch a knuckleball.

Try to throw a knuckleball.

Ump a Little League game.

Use a wood bat.

Visit Babe Ruth Birthplace and museum

Visit Bob Feller Museum

Visit Brave’s Museum

Visit Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame

Visit Cincinnati Reds Museum

Visit Durham Athletic Park (where "Bull Durham" takes place).

Visit Green-wood cemetery

Visit Legends of the Game Museum

Visit Rickwood Field

Visit the "Field of Dreams" site in Dyersville, Iowa

Visit the Barnstable Bat Company

Visit the Negro League Museum

Visit Ty Cobb Museum

Visit Yogi Berra Museum

Watch "61*"

Watch "A League of Their Own,"

Watch "Bang the Drum Slowly"

Watch "Bull Durham,"

Watch "Cobb"

Watch "Eight Men Out"

Watch "Fever Pitch"

Watch "Field of Dreams,"

Watch "For Love of the Game"

Watch "Major League"

Watch "Soul of the Game"

Watch "Sugar"

Watch "The Bad News Bears" (the original)

Watch "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg"

Watch "The Natural."

Watch "The Pride of the Yankees"

Watch "The Rookie"

Watch "The Sandlot"

Watch "Viva Baseball"

Watch "Who’s on First"

Watch Ken Burns’ "Baseball" Series

Work for a baseball team

Write a baseball song or poem

...On the Road to Who Knows Where