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| L-R: The 2007, 2010 and 2005 editions of the Baseball Travel Map |
Hedberg Map's Baseball Travel Map is an indispensable tool for planning baseball road trips, or finding baseball when traveling for other reasons. Sure, Minor League Baseball has a Google Map on its website, but it's not remotely the same.
Speaking practically, the Google Map is too small to allow a viewer to scan the breadth of the country, from the San Francisco Giants to the Portland (Maine) Sea Dogs. (Not to mention, who wants to balance a laptop on their knees while they're on the crapper.)
Less practically, the online map lacks magic. When I unfold the five panels of the Baseball Travel Map, I see the trips Melvin and I have taken in the past, and I project us into the future, imagining the trips we might take.
So, I was understandably saddened when I learned Hedberg does not plan to publish a 2013 edition of the map, justifiably billed as "Essential information for the roving fan."
