BaseCrawl

About me:

Check out our main Web page at BaseCrawl.com

We're three friends who found a way to pull off every baseball fan's ultimate fantasy: In May 2008 we set out to attend one game at every Major League ballpark. It took us 75 days, 17,000 miles and several cases of beer.

Our basecrawl went through many incarnations before it became a reality. At first it was just a wild idea for a vacation. At some point, though, we decided spending the time and money necessary to pull it off deserved a legacy beyond a colorful scrapbook.

We decided to make this journey a platform for journalism, storytelling and a series of documentary shorts — the ultimate mixture of business and pleasure. Troy Foster, a former print journalist, formed a media company to be the vehicle for BaseCrawl. Daren Many, an ecologist between jobs, planned the logistics and Nolan Rice, a math professor, provided the humor. Each of us were able to delay adulthood one more summer.

We used our basecrawl as the backdrop for a bigger story — a story that's not so much about baseball as it is people. From a storytelling standpoint, our interest was never the games we saw, the pennant race or the players on the field. It was the characters who bring America's pastime to life — people like the four saxophone players we met outside Busch Stadium, the The Little Pumas in Houston or The Guy we found watching the Indians from a rooftop across from Progressive Field.

From a journalistic standpoint, we originally chose to do this project in a format compatible with Current TV, the pioneering network that continues to empower aspiring documentary filmmakers. It's our intention to bring you BaseCrawl in a short-form documentary format, with three- to eight-minute videos that showcase the people and places of America's pastime.

You can watch all of our videos by following this link: BaseCrawl Videos