Father-daughter duo spends summer visiting every MLB ballpark

Wrigley Field in Chicago.
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Emily Thompson may not be the world's biggest baseball fan, but she does love her dad, and that's why she spent the summer with him traveling 13,000 miles in order to visit all 30 Major League Baseball parks.

Danny Thompson has always been into baseball, and his daughter told KGO-TV that throughout her life, he's talked about going to all of the different ballparks. He recently had a heart attack, and Emily Thompson knew she wanted to take him on some sort of an adventure. "I was trying to find a way to connect with him and we didn't have much, but baseball I could do," she said. "My main goal was to spend time with him."

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.