We have spent the past few weeks moving BaseCrawl.com to this new, WordPress-powered site. The content of our documentary series, our original road updates and our blogs have become more interactive. This new site is easier than ever to navigate.

This project has been in the works for a long time. We hit all 30 ballparks in one road trip, and last year we released an hour and 20 minutes of content in 10 installments. Each video spotlighted a ballpark and presented a theme or idea with it.

Right now, we are trying to find a new home for BaseCrawl, and planning the re-release of our original material in a different format, with a higher production quality.

Stay tuned.

After a long break, we are back with fresh installments of the BaseCrawl documentary series. Last year, we released 1 hour and 20 minutes of material in 10 installments. This series resumes one-third of the way through the basecrawl.

As this baseball road trip steers toward Minneapolis and a date with the Minnesota Twins, our basecrawlers stop at a cornfield in Iowa to check out the Field of Dreams. This detour to the site of the storied baseball film begs a great question: Is this the greatest baseball movie ever? And if not, what is?

Armed with these questions, our travelers hit Minneapolis and turn to Twins fans to end this debate.

One summer, three friends set out to do what many baseball fans only dream of. They went on a mission to attend one game at each Major League ballpark, using their journey as a platform for journalism, storytelling and a series of documentary shorts. It’s an adventure best described as a “basecrawl.”

Last season, we released 1 hour and 20 minutes of material in 10 installments, covering our journey from Seattle’s Safeco Field to St. Louis’ Busch Stadium. With Opening Day upon us, the series resumes with new installments from our baseball road trip. These short-docs profile characters, present ideas and explore themes related to America’s Pastime. They are linked together by one epic journey.

We’ve been busy updating our Facebook page in recent days, adding our best photos from Oakland Coliseum, Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium, San Diego’s Petco Park and all the rest. If you enjoy following updates on the BaseCrawl series, you can follow our updates on Twitter, too.

We saw a lot of street musicians during our baseball road trip across America, but Busch Stadium produced something we hadn’t seen: four men playing the same instrument.

These competing saxophone players presented a clear opportunity to satisfy our curiosity. What inspires a street musician to perform for baseball fans? How much do they make? What’s their story?

Each of the 30 ballparks we visited had a distinct personality, and the saxophone players we spoke to helped tell the story of Busch Stadium, as well as highlight the rhythm and blues scene of St. Louis.

Take a look at Brad and Kyle. These guys are among a distinct group of college baseball fans who love the College World Series, so long as they don’t have to watch any baseball. They’d just as well play Beat the Meat.

The College World Series draws a strange mix of fans like Kyle and Brad to see the eight remaining teams in NCAA baseball duke it out for a national championship. Aside from the stereotypical beer-drinking college boys, the event draws thousands of Nebraskans and Iowans who are plenty interested in watching the games. They just love baseball more than they do any particular team.

Our journey to Omaha’s Rosenblatt Stadium was a nostalgic visit for Troy. This is where he rekindled his love for baseball watching his alma mater win national championships in 2006 and 2007. Although the Beavers had been eliminated at the time of our visit, their storied three-year run left a lasting imprint on Omaha.

Nolan’s gone, but the basecrawl continues …

We were certainly surprised by what we found in Kansas City. The woebegone Royals were circling the drain as usual, yet you wouldn’t know it looking around from your seat at Kauffman Stadium. The fans had more life and enthusiasm than Billy Mays.

If we hadn’t known any better, we’d have thought we were watching a team in the pennant race. Royals fans stick by their team with a strange mixture of pride and embarrassment.

Stop No. 8 on our baseball road trip also presented a unique opportunity to visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Located in the historic 18th & Vine district of Kansas City, the NLBM showcases a rich part of American history, but also reminds us of baseball’s segregated past.

Planning a 10-week, 17,000-mile road trip through 40 states is a massive undertaking. This basecrawl — a quest to see one game at every Major League ballpark — happens to be framed around three weddings, one for each of our travelers.

No sooner has the game in San Diego ended when our basecrawlers begin an all-night push to Denver so Nolan isn’t late to a rehearsal dinner and a reunion with his girlfriend. Game No. 7 takes our team to Coors Field and a battle of the beers. Everyone appears to be riding a “mile high,” but stunning news is about to completely alter the nature of this baseball road trip.

Ever wonder why certain people root for certain ball clubs? Or why a baseball fan’s sex drive fluctuates with the ups and downs of his favorite team?

As the quest to hit all 30 ballparks in one season continues, our basecrawlers use their stop at Petco Park to take a look at the science of fan behavior — both psychologically and physiologically.

The San Diego Padres are playing Daren’s beloved Mets, and our native New Yorker sees his mood swing like a batter taking a hack at a Jake Peavy fastball.

The Dodger Dog is one of baseball’s most notorious franks, and our basecrawl connoisseur is eager to sample this and rank it against the other hot dogs he’s devoured.

Nolan is famous for his gargantuan appetite, and as he and his friends tackle game No. 5 on their baseball road trip Nolan takes on the entire Dodger Stadium menu with a comical — and critical — look at the cost of ballpark food.

This video features an appearance by Bryan Mansell, a lifelong friend of Troy’s who hosted us for two nights in Los Angeles. Mansell, a musician who performs under the name Milking Gecko, wrote and recorded the song “Happy Go Lucky,” which we adopted as our BaseCrawl theme.

“Happy Go Lucky” plays in most of our videos, often as the outro but sometimes in its entirety (see also: Angel Stadium). “Happy Go Lucky” can be downloaded by following this link to Beta Records.

Pushing down the California coast, the next stop is Angel Stadium where a monkey rules supreme and our travelers drift back to a time when baseball was a child’s game.

Feeling nostalgic, our basecrawlers — all former card collectors — head to a modern-day baseball card show in an attempt to reconnect with the past. They’re surprised to learn just how much the trading card industry has changed since the Tom Seavers gave way to the Tim Lincecums, and boys grew up to be men.

Troy writes more about the baseball card show in a blog titled, “What Happened to my Baseball Cards?” Daren touches on the Rally Monkey in: “It’s not just a monkey; it’s the Rally Monkey.”