Plan a Baseball Road Trip

Killing a couple hours at the office during this time of year can be harder than it sounds. There’s a limit to the amount of boring spring training news a person can handle in one day.

As long as you’re just sitting there not working, why not take a little bit of time now to start planning your summer baseball road trip. Even if you’re not actually planning on going, a guy still needs a dream.

From my experience, trying to put a schedule together and scouring every team’s on-line ticket office takes time. As a service, I’d like to pass along a couple nice sites I stumbled across that might save you some work.

The first thing you’ll to need to do is make a game plan. Head on over to Baseball-RoadTrip and enter the cities you want to visit and the amount of time you have to take. The site will search each team’s calendar and return a schedule that fits your needs.

Warning: This could become addicting. My list:

Now you need tickets. FanSnap works with most of the top providers, even eBay, to bring you nearly every ticket being offered to your game that’s available on the Internet. Though, for you more trusting folks, it doesn’t return results from Craigslist.

You’ve probably seen some of these ticket aggregators before, and been less than impressed. FanSnap though, brings something I haven’t seen before.

It offers stadium seating charts that allow you to zoom in on the available seats, giving you a better idea of the individual seat location.  This could prevent any sadness caused by having a ticket in row one, only to find that you’re really 27 steps up, behind row Z.

I don't know that you'll find any extraordinary deals here, but at least it offers a good idea about the local market.

Hopefully, this saves you some time and gets you back to your real job as soon as possible.  We don’t want the boss to catch you wasting too much time or you’ll wind up with the whole summer free to watch as much baseball as you want.

Let us know about your road trip and where you get your tickets.