By Jeremy Kahn

MIAMI-As I sit here in the pressbox at yet another baseball stadium, I cannot help reminisce on the first baseball I attended on this ritual I started back in 2007.

Yes I attended baseball games prior to 2007, as I went to my first ever baseball game on June 14, 1977 when the Los Angeles Dodgers played host to the Pittsburgh Pirates at Dodger Stadium.

Asides from going to Dodger Stadium as a child and a young adult, I also attended games at Angel Stadium, the now demolished Kingdome in Seattle, the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Candlestick Park and eventually AT&T Park.

It was on that Saturday in August of 2007, that I attended my one and only baseball game at the corner of East 161st and River Ave. in the Borough of the Bronx and Yankee Stadium.

Just one year later, the “House That Ruth Built” was closed forever and the Yankees into their new palace of a Stadium just across the street.

Roger Clemens took the mound that day for the New York Yankees against the reigning American League Champion Detroit Tigers.

Seeing that ballpark up close and personal was amazing, and going into Monument Park to see all those plaques was priceless.

Besides seeing Clemens pitch that day, I got to see Mariano Rivera enter the game to his usual entrance music of “Enter Sandman” by Metallica.

The Yankees won the game over the Tigers on that afternoon, but being at Yankee Stadium was a treat for anyone who went to a game there.

Three days after going to my one and only game ever at Yankee Stadium, I made a trek via the Number Seven train out to Queens and Shea Stadium, the soon to be former home of the New York Mets.

Like their American League counterparts in the Bronx, the Mets were also planning on leaving their current home after the 2008 season.old stadium

I received a Press Credential to the game between the Mets and the San Diego Padres, even though it was a 44-year on its last legs, the old stadium did have some pizazz to it.

The iconic Apple in Centerfield that rose when the Mets, and who can ever forget the planes that fly in and out of LaGuardia Airport, which is not that far away from Shea Stadium.

After going to the Mets game on a Tuesday night, I hopped on a bus the next afternoon and headed to Philadelphia and Citizens Bank Parkfor the second game of my three city tour.

The Philadelphia Phillies issued me a press credential for that evening’s game against the Dodgers and depsite the fact that the Dodgers absolutely crushed the Phillies by the final of 15-3, I was able to cross another stadium of my list.

After that summer, I would have to wait another three seasons to continue my trips around the country to different ballparks.

Beginning with the 2010 season, and continuing to this season, I have taken a road trip with the San Francisco Giants.

Even though, the Giants were not there, I have been to both of the new stadiums in New York, as I went to a game at Yankee Stadium, a 11-2 Yankees victory that saw the Yankees score all their runs in the bottom of the third inning.

Two nights later, I went to Citi Field, the new home of the Mets and saw the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Mets in a close game.

Just 24 hours after seeing the Mets and Reds at Citi Field, I went to the first of my two games at Citizens Bank Park for a series between the Phillies and the Atlanta Braves.

Following the two games in the City of Brotherly Love, I headed to Washington, D.C., where I finally got to see a baseball game our Nation’s Capitol.

The Washington Nationals issued me a press credential, and as fate would have it, the Nationals would be play the Giants.

After winning two out of three in the series, the Giants would go on to win their first World Series since 1954, when they defeated the Texas Rangers in five games.

Over the next three seasons, I would make road trips to Wrigley Field in Chicago, Comerica Park in Detroit, Petco Park in San Diego, Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Coors Field in Denver, Chase Field in Phoenix.

Tonight, my ballpark trip continues to Marlins Park in Miami, the home of the Miami Marlins. After arriving here, it dawned on me, man if this ground could talk, as this is former home of the Miami Dolphins and the University of Miami Hurricanes football teams.

Not only did the Dolphins and Hurricanes play in the Orange Bowl, but it was also the home of the annual Orange Bowl until it moved to Sun Life Stadium.