422. That’s the total number of possible matchups, home and away, in Major League Baseball (not including interleague). And on Friday night, John Salvo will have seem them all. Salvo, now 62, saw his first game when he just six years old, and he hasn’t stopped since.
Fan Nears End of Lifelong Baseball Quest
↵↵Salvo has managed to squeeze in far more baseball than the 422 possible combinations required to see all possible match-ups. In all, he has seen 959 games at 57 different stadiums. He has seen World Series games, playoff games, no-hitters (two of them), a triple play, a Roger Maris home run, a Mark McGwire home run and a Barry Bonds home run splash into McCovey Cove in San Francisco.
↵He has the ticket stubs to prove it. And there’s plenty of scorebooks in the basement.
↵“To say this is a compulsion would be accurate,” Salvo said. “I like to complete lists of things.”
↵↵The unfortunate part in of all of this, of course, as Jimmy Traina points out, is that he saved the worst for last: Friday night’s game in New York is the Astros against the Mets.
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