From USA Today online…
Summer odyssey: Fan biking to all 30 MLB parks
By Chelsea Janes, USA TODAY
Until this summer, perhaps the most remarkable thing about Darren O'Donnell was that he emerged a Cincinnatti Reds fan from a childhood spent in Idaho. Then he took two of his passions -- biking and baseball -- and formed another unlikely combination, attempting to ride his bike to every Major League Baseball stadium in a six-month summer odyssey.
More than 8,000 miles, countless flat tires and one HBC (hit-by-car) later, and O'Donnell, 24, has reached 18 of the 30 ballparks.
A resident of Bellingham, Wash., and graduate of Western Washington University, O'Donnell was working at a food co-op when he joined friends on a biking trip to Chico, Calif., last April. O'Donnell, who never owned a car, had only biked short distances within his community but enjoyed the road trip so much that he came up with the idea of a bicycle baseball pilgrimage.
"I've always wanted to see all the ballparks," O'Donnell says. "It seemed realistic as far as mileage per day goes, and the whole time leading up to it I just kept thinking 'I don't see why it can't be done.' So I decided to do it."
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