Baseball Bucket list tag from dad

With thanks to ESPN.com's Jim Caple, here's a list of 50 baseball related things to do before you die.

How many of them have you done?

Here are 50 things all baseball fans should do while they still have the chance:
• Spend a week at spring training.
Oh yeah!! saw Garth Brooks play! (he sucked)
• Learn to keep score.
I think that's how i learned to read....or why i learned.
• Learn about Tommy John surgery by throwing out your arm at the stadium speed pitch station.
I've tried the speed pitch and been embarrassed, i throw like a girl!!
• Watch "Field of Dreams," "Bull Durham," "A League of Their Own," "The Bad News Bears" (the original) and "The Natural."
Of course!
• Use a wood bat.
the thunk of the wood is way better than the ting of metal!!
• Enjoy a beer in the bleachers at Wrigley Field on a sunny summer day.
Nope, never been to wrigley
• Listen to Vin Scully call an entire Dodgers game.
Nope, but a whole game called by Dave Neihaus comes close.
• Read "Ball Four," "The Boys of Summer," "Nine Innings," "The Glory of Their Times" and any (preferably all) of Roger Angell's collections.
Nope
• Go to Japan's Koshien high school tournament (i.e., where Dice K threw his famous no-hitter).
Nope
• Hit a home run.
Nope, those who can play, those who can't, watch!
• Coach a Little League team.
Not yet. but i will.
• Ump a Little League game.
see last answer
• Boo the Yankees in person.
Every chance I get, as well as on TV or when i see someone with a Yankee cap!
• Play Strat-O-Matic, APBA, Dynasty League or a similar computer-simulation game.
Nope, not my thing
•Attend a fantasy camp and have more fun than you can imagine feeling old and young at the same time.
No
• Tour the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Yes. a couple of times
• Oil your glove and stuff it under your mattress for the winter, then play catch the first day of spring with your parent/child.
No, sounds like a good idea.
• Get to a game early enough to watch batting practice.
As far as I'm concerned, anything else is getting there late.
• Go to the College World Series.
no
• Play pepper.
i don't think so.
• Go to a batting cage and see what it's like to hit a 90 mph fastball. Or, more likely, fail to hit a 90 mph fastball.
yes, it hurts
• Attend a townball game in Minnesota (the smaller the town the better).
nope
• Visit the "Field of Dreams site in Dyersville, Iowa and the old Durham Athletic Park (where "Bull Durham" takes place).
Nope
• Take your kids to see The Chicken or The Phanatic.
Yes, i have an autographed picture of the chicken!!
• Run around the bases after a big league game.
not after a game, but during a kids clinic at the king dome
• See Derek Jeter, Albert Pujols and Ichiro play in person and chant their names with a stadium packed with fans.
Yes to Ichiro, no to Pujols--but I'd do it--, and see the above about Yankees regarding Jeter. I was also there to chant "EDDDDDGAAAARRRR" and to hear people chant "DAAAAARYYYLL".
• Buy a fitted cap to replace the cheap stadium giveaway you got with the plastic adjustable strap in the back and the Piggly Wiggly logo on the side.
Never with a Piggly Wiggly logo, but many other chintzy caps.
• Sing "Sweet Caroline" at Fenway Park.
Yes.
• Recite "Casey at the Bat" and "Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Yes, to Casey, no to Tinker.
• Read the box scores religiously.
at times
• Join SABR.
No
• Get your favorite player's autograph.
I've tried but Jay Buhner always avoided me
• Learn to throw a curveball.
no way!
• Take a week-long road trip through the minors, the lower the league the better, and make sure to include a team owned by Mike Veeck (that's Veeck, as in "wreck", his dad used to say).
no
• Cheer the Rally Monkey.
No, and why on earth would I?
• Eat at Boog's barbecue pit at Camden Yards, enjoy a Primanti Brothers sandwich at Pittsburgh's ballpark, the fish tacos in San Diego, a Dodger Dog at Dodger Stadium and garlic fries while circling the concourse in Seattle.
Just the garlic fries, and BBQ outside of Fenway
• Attend a game in the Caribbean.
Not yet, but sounds fun
• Buy a bleacher ticket and sneak into a box seat.
Oh yeah.
• Passionately argue in a bar over who belongs in the Hall of Fame.
not in a bar, but mike can tell you i've almost started fights a few games (i think i get that from my dad!)
• Collect baseball cards. Get your favorite player's rookie card and store it in a plastic sleeve. Treat all others the way God intended: by clothes-pinning them to the spokes of your bicycle in a pathetic attempt to make an engine noise.
Yep! i also used cards to decorate my doll house!
• Rub the Babe's nose in Monument Park.
Yep, being in the house of evil was kinda cool, so much history.
• Camp out in front of the stadium for tickets to see your favorite team in the postseason.
I did skip school to see the M's play the angels in a do or die game in 1995, and have been to a few post-season games.
• Try to throw a knuckleball.
no
• Try to catch a knuckleball.
No
• Catch a foul ball. And then hand it to the nearest kid.
I've been the kid, (thanks dad) and i have had a ball thrown to me by a Red Sox.
• Disobey your parents by staying up late to listen to a game with your transistor radio/iPhone tucked under your pillow.
Have you met my dad, he would have gotten mad if i went to bed rather than watched the game!!
• Go to the All-Star Game.
I'm a little bitter about this one, i was in Massachusetts when the all star game was in Seattle.
• Kayak in McCovey Cove (yeah, Barry Bonds is gone, but San Francisco Bay is still there).
Looks like fun.
• Eat a hot-fudge sundae in a mini batting helmet.
Many times! yum!
And finally …
• See your team play in the World Series. (Sorry, this might not be applicable to Cubs, Mariners, Rangers and Nationals fans.)
I've held in my hand M's World Series tickets, but they didn't make it.

I tag you Marjorie!