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Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

Criss Crossing America to Visit Every Baseball Stadium

Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.4636 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Tiffany Mathias, a self-confessed baseball stadium chaser (and, incidentally, Lale’s sister-in-law), recounts her quest to visit every ballpark in the US, touring the stadiums, chatting to ushers and fans, and sampling the often eccentric local concessions—often as a solo traveler. To watch a game in a new stadium, says Tiffany, is “to be in her happy place.”

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0:00.0

Hi there, I'm Lale Arakoglu, and this is women who travel.

0:09.3

This week, I'm chatting to my very own sister-in-law.

0:13.4

She's Tiffany Matthias, who is a self-described baseball stadium chaser.

0:18.1

I'm fascinated, and it's not anything that's familiar to me. So here we go.

0:31.0

Scoping the ballpark, chatting to fans, sampling the different hot dogs and of course

0:37.0

crisscrossing the country on the most

0:38.8

amazing road trips.

0:44.0

You can get to the stadium and make up your mind and talk to some ushers.

0:49.5

There's just so much that's involved.

0:52.3

There's customer service will actually stamp a passport

0:56.0

that says you've been at the stadium and so people collect passport stamps. You can obviously

1:02.8

like I did in Texas get an usher to take you around and check out the whole stadium. And then

1:07.7

there's times where I've just walked in and just watched a game and left. I think the

1:13.5

brewers gave out hoodies one year that were pretty phenomenal. Like some of the giveaways are pretty

1:18.5

great. People get really passionate about like what details a greater stadium than you get into the

1:24.5

mix of the culture and the food and the atmosphere and the outside of the stadium going into the stadium.

1:30.5

The only reason we went to Kansas City was because of the stadium. So, I mean, it does bring in people to the area because of the team.

1:39.8

I know that for, you know, X amount of hours, I'm going to be sitting there and just enjoying the game.

1:44.9

Just alive but happy.

1:46.4

Like the adrenaline and the peaceful calmness, it just happens like when you're in a good atmosphere.

2:00.0

Tiff, you're my sister-in-law. We've known each other for many years. We spend holidays together,

2:04.6

many summer weekends together. I know that baseball is a big passion of yours. Visiting stadiums all

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