Check out our main Web page at BaseCrawl.com
Now, about this project: We don't know exactly when we decided to do this BaseCrawl, but it's an idea that's been tossed around the pullpen for more than a year. The three of us are best friends and former roommates on what might be our last great adventure. Fate and timing have aligned to allow us the opportunity to delay adulthood for one more summer and attempt our ultimate fantasy: attend one game in every Major League Baseball stadium. We're not so arrogant to believe that we're the first three jerks to attempt this, nor are we so naive to think that it won't be done by countless fans in the future. So to immortalize this adventure and throw in a new twist to the ultimate baseball road trip, we're attempting to do something a bit different.
We've decided to combine our backgrounds in journalism, mathematics, plant sciences and bartending to do a series of short-form documentaries that you'll be able to find here on MySpace and on our main page at www.BaseCrawl.com beginning in August 2008. We formed an independent media company to be the vehicle for this project and we'll be submitting our work to Current TV. Current is a young network founded by Al Gore that has helped democratize video journalism. More than 40 percent of its content is user-generated from folks like you and me (it airs on Dish Network channel 196, Direct TV 366 and Comcast 107).
Following the Current TV format, we're creating roughly 30 three- to seven-minute video "pods" about America's fascination with baseball. With one pod set in each Major League Baseball city, we're pursuing human-interest stories that uncover baseball's lesser-known characters, the culture of fandom and the quirks that make each city unique. From the kayakers outside AT&T Park in San Francisco to the saxophone players that work the crowds at Busch Stadium, we're attempting to showcase a side of baseball most people have never seen.
We're using our 2 1/2-month journey as the template for this project. Our attempt to attend one game in all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums is the platform for our journalism, but it's not the story. Neither are the actual games being played on the field. This isn't a series on Major League Baseball's mega stars or an ESPN-style analysis on the pennant race. It's a human tale about America's pastime and the people whose lives are inextricably tied to it.
