California: Fans bring picnic blankets for open seating on Home Run Hill ($1 tickets on Sundays!) and watch as players try to smack long balls into the water, à la San Francisco’s AT&T Park ( stocktonports.com ).
Indiana: Opened in 1915, Bosse Field hosted Geena Davis, Madonna and the rest of the Rockford Peaches during the filming of “A League of Their Own” ( evansvilleotters.com ).
New Mexico: After Homer saved his beloved Isotopes from leaving Springfield for Albuquerque in “The Simpsons,” Albuquerque residents overwhelmingly voted to name its team the ‘Topes. Not too many mascots compare with Orbit, a fuzzy electron prankster ( albuquerquebaseball.com ).
New York: Decades after the Dodgers left for L.A., pro baseball is back in Brooklyn–at the end of the D, F and Q trains and just steps from Nathan’s Famous and the boardwalk of Coney Island ( brooklyncyclones.com ).
North Carolina: Durham Bulls Athletic Park isn’t where Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins suited up in their classic baseball flick. But the park does have the mechanical bull used in the movie, and fireworks after Friday games ( dbulls.com ).
