Guest Feature: Rick and Marjie W.
Each time we get to celebrate guests visiting their 30th stadium, it makes the tour extra special. This past summer we got to celebrate Rick and Marjie W. and their accomplishment! Here's what they said about their experiences with Big League Tours: 
"We began our MLB Stadium Quest in 2015. As Seattle Mariners fans, our first stadium visits were on the West Coast. We knew where to go and it was relatively easy to get there. Since we both were still teachers at the time, we had to wait for summer and long weekends so we usually only managed to get to one or two stadiums per year. We were excited when we managed to get to 4 stadiums on a road trip! By 2019, we had managed a total of 15 stadiums - everything but Texas and Houston west of the Mississippi. We began thinking about what to do next and then COVID19 hit.
We were on hold with a total of 15 stadiums for a year. During that time, Rick found several baseball tour companies online. Since we had a lot of time to research, Rick began to check all of them out, spending hours looking at every aspect of each company. It became very clear that Big League Tours would be a fabulous choice for our adventures. He began communication
with BLT and we made plans for our first tour.
We signed up for the 2023 East Coast /Hall of Fame Tour. We loved the idea of having someone
else guide us through New York, DC and Boston instead of navigating it ourselves. We arrived in DC a day early. Bronte had added on our hotel the night before so we did not have to worry about anything other than getting from the airport to the hotel. From the minute we arrived, we knew we had made the right choice! The hotels were fabulous - better than we would choose ourselves. Most of them were walking distance to the stadiums and it was easy to explore the cities during our free time. On this trip we traveled between cities via charter bus which gave us the opportunity to get to know the others on the trip. We chatted about baseball and families and made new friends. Our travel on this trip was led by Tia, who made sure we all got to every stop at the right time. She went above and beyond in every way and by the end of the week, she seemed to be part of our family! Before leaving to go home at the end of the trip, several of us had decided we wanted to do the Mideast Tour in 2024 while begging Tia to lead that trip too!
So, we signed up for the 2024 MidEast Tour! At this point, we had 9 stadiums
left and completing this trip would leave us with the 2 Texas teams and 2 Florida teams. Since we were now retired we started thinking about doing those 2 trips on our own. As we planned for those, we realized very quickly that getting everything to fall into place would not be so easy. We would have spent at least as much, if not more, but would not have had the top-notch hotels or amazing seats at the games that we had available with Big League Tours. So, we gave Glenn and Bronte a call, and they helped us tag onto a trip to Florida in April with Bronte and a trip to Texas in May with Nathan.
In July, we joined the Mideast Tour in Toronto for our last 5 stadiums. Excited to meet up with friends again, we traveled from Toronto to Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Detroit. Tia was our leader once again–yay! We all picked up where we left off from earlier times and also met new people who joined us. Celebrating our 30th stadium in Detroit was a special day we won’t forget. We arrived early enough to explore the stadium and food options and get our last photos together with old and new friends and we all celebrated the milestone together.
We highly recommend Big League Tours to all of our friends who love baseball. Everything is so well organized and planned. We still keep in touch with the amazing people we have met. Everyone with BLT knows how to make baseball fans into baseball friends by bringing them together to enjoy America’s Pastime in a classy way. We already are booked for more tour fun for the upcoming 2025 season to revisit stadiums, but more importantly, hang with awesome friends we have made through BLT and the great game called BASEBALL!"
Congratulations, Rick and Marjie!! We are honored to have been a small part of your large accomplishment. Thank you for choosing Big League Tours.
