We get it: You love baseball, but you also love to stuff your face with the greatest, tastiest and most outrageous foodstuffs out there. One of the great things about going to a ballgame these days is that while you can still get your hot dog and Cracker Jack, you...
Where baseball meets food.
- MLB Life, popular spots celebrate Japanese culture in baseball at EEEEEATSCON LA
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. -- For two days, June 8-9, the Barker Hangar adjacent to the Santa Monica Airport hosted The Infatuation’s EEEEEATSCON, a gathering of some of the region's best and most popular local restaurants and eateries. There was a palpable buzz in the air throughout the event, as influencers...
- Thomson, Phillies find slice of home in London pub
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- Joey Chestnut crushes ice cream and fried walleye at MiLB game -- for a cause
When you go out to a Minor League Baseball game, it's a good idea to show up hungry. Maybe nobody is more familiar with this wisdom than Joey Chestnut, the 16-time champion of the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. On Saturday night, Chestnut brought his appetite to a Toledo...
- The top 5 mouthwatering MLB World Tour: London Series 2024 menu items
Think of baseball and it’s hard not imagine the incredible ballpark food. Fans at this year’s London Series can expect to be served a treat at London Stadium when the New York Mets take on the Philadelphia Phillies on June 8-9. While stars like Bryce Harper, Trea Turner, Pete Alonso...
- 8 new Minor League concessions items you'll want to try
Baseball develops some of its best elements in the Minor Leagues, from the talent of players, to ballpark promotions to rule changes. That also extends to food. Of course, you can get all your favorites -- Cracker Jacks, hot dogs, cotton candy, beer, cola and all the rest -- at...
- Who really won London Series: The Cubs' brisket sandwich or the Cards' donut burger?
When the London Series took place last month, the Cubs and Cardinals weren't the only things brought over from the United States for fans -- there was the food, too. Among the bevy of food options there was a downright smorgasbord of American ballpark-style foodstuffs including nachos, pizzas, and giant...
- The Cubs and Cardinals are taking over London's food scene, too
Forget the pies and the puddings: When the Cubs and Cardinals head to England for the London Series next week, there will be a full baseball food takeover, too. And the options won't just be restricted to London Stadium, home of West Ham United and host for the Cubs and...
- New ballpark food coming to GABP in 2023
When it comes to baseball and sports in general, the debates among fans are endless. But there is no debate when it comes to fans’ love for ballpark food. Eating at a baseball game is an essential part of the gameday experience. And at Great American Ball Park, that experience...
- Baseball's underground cheesesteak-eating contest
It didn't even start as a contest. It all began because Dmitri Young simply wanted some food. "It wasn't even a dare," Young told me in a recent call. "I was just hungry." But after eating 11 cheesesteaks over a three-game series in Philadelphia some time in the early 2000s,...
- Lining up the best of the Mets' 2022 food options
They pulled back the curtain, allowing the mouth-watering odors to come through unobstructed. There, just a few feet beyond us, was a spread unlike one we had ever seen. Dishes stacked upon dishes, glowing under orange-and-golden lights, all plated in little snack trays and lovingly nestled inside Mets-themed tissue paper....
- Foodie Canha comfy with full count, full plate
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Through risotto, Mark Canha met the world. The Mets’ new right fielder was only 6 or 7 when it happened, when he first pressed creamy rice to his tongue and experienced revelation. Canha grew up in the Bay Area with a dad who traveled internationally...
- How the '86 Red Sox helped create a mustard museum
The dream came to him from a nightmare -- at least, the kind of nightmare that every baseball fanatic has at least once in their life. Barry Levenson -- who originally hails from Worcester, Mass., but was the assistant attorney general at the Wisconsin Department of Justice -- had just...
- Boggs became 'Chicken Man' for a cookbook
We'd only just begun our conversation when Wade Boggs reveals the scoop of scoops: The man affectionately known as "Chicken Man," whose fame for eating chicken before every game may rival what he accomplished during his Hall of Fame career, did it all because he wanted to write a chicken...
- Celebrate 'Field of Dreams' with great food
Are you a big "Field of Dreams" fan, but couldn't make it out to Iowa for Thursday's big game between the Yankees and White Sox? Do you regularly dress like a baseball ghost emerging from a corn field, but you never have the appropriate meal to pair with the outfit?...
- Ballpark food goes gourmet on Home Plate
Food should be fun. That's the ethos that Will Hughes, the young internet sensation better known on Instagram as "What Willy Cook," seems to live by. "'What am I gonna cook?'" Hughes, who has a devilish smile permanently attached to his lips, asked himself. "There's only a billion things that...
- It's the last week to vote in MLB Food Fight
There's still a long way to go in the baseball season and every team -- no matter how quickly they got out of the gate or how poorly they started the year -- has at least the mathematic possibility of winning the World Series. But when it comes to which...
- Cast your vote for MLB's best food
Ever since Chris Von der Ahe, the owner of the St. Louis Browns of the American Association (who, confusingly enough, became the Cardinals of today) started selling hot dogs at the ballpark in the 1880s, stuffing your face has been just as big a part of going to the game...
- MLB stars with unbelievably weird diets
There are two things we know to be true about Major League ballplayers. First: Their bodies are their temples, well-oiled machines, the product of years of work in back fields and batting cages and weight rooms -- all with the goal of leaping tall buildings in a single bound and...