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september
october 201 3
By David Valone
Inspired by a book and a lifetime love of baseball, a father and daughter set out
to see all 30major league baseball parks’Äîand a fewother things along theway.
I
n families in which the children
have reached college age, summer
often is a season for resuming reg-
ular home life and traditions with
the parents. Mothers and fathers
accept the days are dwindling when
the place where they live will be the
same house their children (occasion-
ally) call home. As a result, parents try
tomake each of those last few family
summers significant andmemorable.
My daughter, Mary Anne’Äîor Kit, as
her mother and I call her’Äîhas been
a Chicago Cubs baseball fan since
girlhood, and that has helped create
many summer memories for the
two of us, beginning long before she
enteredAuburn University in 2011.
When Kit was small, she enjoyed
Chicago’Äôs channelWGN on cable
for its daytime kids’Äô programming.
Back then, the Cubs’Äô Wrigley Field
had no lights, so home games
were scheduled during the day and
commun i t y re source gu i de
The Parks
of Summer