Man sets what probably is a record - attends 10,000 professional (most major some minor)

baseball games!

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The man who's been to 10,000 baseball games
12:22 AM EDT
Matt Monagan

NEW YORK -- The message flashed quickly in the sixth inning on the Citi Field video board during the first game of a doubleheader between the Mets and Rockies. If you went for a bathroom break, if you were staring down at your phone, if you blinked, you probably missed it.

“Congrats on MLB game 10K, King Mike Casiano!”

But nobody, not any of the superfans in Section 515 – up in the King’s Court – missed it. They all had their cameras up to capture the honor for their great friend. Ballpark hawks from Pittsburgh all the way up to Ottawa, whom Casiano has met and impressed and kept in touch with along the way. Ed “Tike” Narry, the official 10,000-game tracker from the Bay Area, who has meticulously scoured through the King’s handwritten game logs to calculate his impossible accomplishment. Twenty-somethings from Queens who gravitated toward the high-and tight area way above home plate. A spot they found community and, most importantly, a home.

They all cheered and shouted and pointed excitedly in the King’s direction.

Casiano, himself, is pretty quiet, seemingly going through the decades and decades of baseball games he’s seen in his 73 years. Almost like he can hardly believe it himself. “I’ve been overwhelmed by the support I’ve gotten from so many,” Casiano said, leaning back in his seat. “I’ve been totally overwhelmed.”

Ten thousand professional baseball games. When you hear someone say they’ve been to that many, it’s hard to imagine it.

It would take about 62 years if you did 162 MLB games every season. A much more manageable 81 home games, for your hometown team, would take 123 years. The oldest verified person to ever live only made it to age 122, and I don’t think Jeanne Calment, the French socialite, was attending many baseball games.

And if you hear about Mike Casiano's first foray into the pro baseball world, it probably doesn't sound too dissimilar to many other ballpark experiences from early childhood. It's pretty innocent.

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