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The S.T.A.T. Sheet The latest Sports Travel and Tours news - The company that gets you to Any Game...Any Place...Any Time!SM VOLUME 15 ISSUE 1 AUTUMN 2014 Steve and Nancy In Only 5 Minutes You Can Steven Yoho of Long Beach, California and his wife, Nancy, cel- ebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in a very unique way – a Baseball Road Trip! These LA Angels’ fans enjoyed major league SAVE UP TO $500 games in six different ballparks, stadium tours of Camden Yards On Your Next Baseball Road Trip! and Yankee Stadium, the Babe Ruth Birthplace, the Sports Legend Museum, and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, along with city tours and historic sites. Reserve Your Baseball Road Lifelong baseball fans, Steven and Nancy didn’t even know such * a trip existed until a few months before they signed up. “The Trip Today and Save 10% great thing about this trip was we didn’t have to do anything – we just packed and went.” No hoops to jump through. Just great savings! Take advantage of this special offer today! Be one of the first ten parties to pay the pre- liminary rate listed on the Baseball Road Trip of your choice, no later than 5:00pm (EST) on December 12, 2014. We will contact you with final pricing and itineraries once complete, and you will have until February 1, 2015 to confirm your reservation. This special pricing is always the best deal of the Steve and Nancy Yoho aboard the motorcoach on their anniversary Baseball year. Call and reserve your Baseball Road Trip Road Trip. Everyone on the trip autographed a baseball as a keepsake. today! 800-662-4424 or go online to make your reservation at sportstravelandtours.com While each of the baseball games were a highlight of the trip, Steven enjoyed the baseball “enrichments” that he wouldn’t *Maximum discount of $250 per person. Offer good on full have planned on his own, including the Yankee Stadium pre-packaged Baseball Road Trips listed on the enclosed insert only. Not combinable with any other offer. Monument Park between the bullpens. Steven says, “When you go in the back of the stadium, you feel as though you’re in the game itself.” Steven’s favorite ballpark to visit was the historic Fenway Park with its Green Monster. “And we loved the variety of foods at each different park.” Travel Tuesdays Although the couple had been to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum previously, they preferred their experience We launched a free webinar series this past year that has been a this time, which occurred on their actual anniversary day. great success. Our consumer Travel Tuesday series focuses on a “We didn’t feel rushed, trying to see everything in the short different event each month throughout the year. It’s a great amount of time we had before,” said Steven. “On this trip, we forum to learn about travel pro- took our time enjoying the Nolan Ryan exhibit, the many grams and ask questions of a plaques, and the Abbott and Costello ‘Who’s on First?’ travel expert without any high- exhibit twice.” pressure sales. Check Facebook, our website and watch for Steven grew up in Long Beach, and attended 20 games or more emails for dates and times of a year with his brother and dad, a Dodger’s fan, who would get upcoming webinars. Michael Coldesina - Webinar Host tickets from work, pick up his sons, Continued on Page 3... We’re Giving Back! PhotoVision To Be Mon, June 8 to Sun, June 14, 2014 Join us on a Baseball Road Trip with a purpose. The Going Yard Featured on Select (A Give Back to Baseball) Road Trip features East Coast favorites New York City, Yankee Stadium, Citi Field, Boston, Fenway Park 2015 Baseball AND a great opportunity to give back to our National Pastime. On Friday, June 12, Sports Travel and Tours, in association with Road Trips Tourism Cares, will invite guests, local volunteers and STAT Staff to volunteer on Historic DoubleDay Field in Cooperstown, NY. We are very excited about a new partnership that we featured Volunteers will participate in a number of light maintenance proj- on two of our Baseball Road Trips last season. PhotoVision is ects throughout the property (e.g., painting the outfield fence), an innovative company with a great crowd-sourcing app. The followed by a wiffle ball game and BBQ*. Through cooperation PhotoVision App is used by people who take pictures with with the Village of Cooperstown, NY, Cooperstown Chamber of their smartphones on our road trips. It is an easy way to share Commerce, and National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, we their photos with us and everyone else on the trip. A unique are honored to host this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity–Join us in username and password is shared so only those attending the helping to preserve baseball’s legacy. event can include their pictures. After the event, a storytelling video will be made for you using all the pictures that have been shared. You and your guests can watch it conveniently right on your phone, tablet, or computer. We have been given tremendous feedback on the app and DVDs received by all participants and will feature this program on select Baseball Road Trips in 2015. Don’t forget your camera phone! Tourism Cares preserves and enhances the travel experience for future generations. They channel the philanthropic passion and commitment of the travel industry to protect and restore valuable destinations we all care about - and to support those destinations as engines for prosperity, civil society, and pride in their communities.Check them out at tourismcares.org *Activities will be determined based on number of volunteers. New Relaxed Arrival Day Our Baseball Road Trips are full of sights, sounds and experiences that will fill your tour with memories for a long time. But one thing we have always heard from our travelers is that it can be stressful to make it to the city where the tour begins at exactly the right time. Too early and you may have to wait at the hotel for your room. And too late, you might miss check-in, the reception or be late to a game! After much research, we have decided to add a stress-free arrival day to the majority of our 2015 Baseball Road Trips. Stress-free arrival days allow greater flexibility when you schedule your flights. We can have a later check-in with the tour host and if you decide to visit with your fellow travelers after the reception, you are free to do so. It also allows our guests to have more leisure time in the first city on their Baseball Road Trip. Our continued pursuit of the perfect baseball trip drives us to incorporate feedback from you, our valued customer. If you have A few of the great photos taken by travelers and hosts on some of our any thoughts on ways to improve trips, just let us know. 2014 Baseball Road Trips. Each party on the trip receives a photo DVD. 2 | The STAT Sheet | AUTUMN 2014 sportstravelandtours.com | 800-662-4424 NORTHERNER Baseball Road Trips begin in Sat 7/4 San Francisco Arrival, Check-In, Trip Reception the first city listed and include: Sun 7/5 Oakland O.co Coliseum: SEA @ OAK • All Game Tickets and Admissions Mon 7/6 San Francisco • Hotel accommodations AT&T Park: NYM @ SFG Tue 7/7 Seattle • Deluxe Motorcoach Transportation Flight to Seattle v to games and between cities Safeco Field: DET @ SEA (unless noted) Wed 7/8 Seattle a Safeco Field: DET @ SEA • City and/or stadium tours PRELIMINARY RATE PER PERSON • Sports Travel and Tours’ host, Trip $1995/pp double occ. $2725/pp single occ. reception, Souvenir, and lots more! ALL-STAR PLUS ROAD TRIP Fri 7/10 Pittsburgh INDUCTION PLUS MAJOR/MINOR: T.O.C. Arrival, Check-In, Trip Reception Wed 7/22 New York Thu 5/28 Houston Sat 7/11 Pittsburgh Arrival, Check-In, Trip Reception PNC Park: STL @ PIT Arrival, Check-In, Trip Reception Thu 7/23 New York City Fri 5/29 Houston Sun 7/12 Cleveland Yankee Stadium: BAL @ NYY Progressive Field: OAK @ CLE Stadium Tour: Minute Maid Park, Fri 7/24 New York City Mon 7/13 Cincinnati City Tour: Houston, All-Star FanFest, Home Run Derby City Tour: New York City, Minute Maid Park: CHW @ HOU Stadium Tour: Yankee Stadium, Tue 7/14 Cincinnati Sat 5/30 Arlington Great American Ball Park: All-Star Game Citi Field: LAD @ NYM Sat 7/25 Cooperstown Stadium Tour: AT&T Stadium, Wed 7/15 Cincinnati Globe Life Park: BOS @ TEX Depart at Leisure from Cincinnati National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Hall of Fame Awards Presentation, Sun 5/31 Frisco PRELIMINARY RATE PER PERSON Hall of Fame Parade of Legends City Tour: Fort Worth, $2695/pp double occ. $3140/pp single occ. Sun 7/26 Cooperstown Dr. Pepper Ballpark (AA): Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Tulsa Drillers @ Frisco Rough Riders EAST COAST CLASSIC Mon 7/27 Boston Mon 6/1 Oklahoma City Mon 7/20 Washington, DC Stadium Tour: Fenway Park, Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark (AAA): Arrival, Check-In, Trip Reception Fenway Park: CHW @ BOS Fresno Grizzlies @ Oklahoma City Redhawks Tue 7/21 Washington, DC Tue 7/28 Boston Tue 6/2 Denver City Tour: Washington, DC Depart at Leisure from Boston v Nationals Park: NYM @ WSH Flight to Denver Wed 7/22 Philadelphia PRELIMINARY RATE PER PERSON Coors Field: LAD @ COL Citizens Bank Park: TB @ PHI $2195/pp double occ.