Usually a prescribed number of fans (such as the first 1000) receive a gifts such as t-shirts, posters, autographs, road game vacation packages, and other free paraphernalia.
The men tailor their work and social schedules around the Tuesday night games, including vacations and work trips.
Three times during a mostly prosperous decade, Connecticut voters elected to the governor's office the political equivalent of a star varsity quarterback -- cocky, quick with a quip, drawn to poker games, unpaid vacations and sharp suits.
The men - aged 30 to 71, though most fall towards the later end of the spectrum - tailor their work and social schedules around the Tuesday night games, including vacations and work trips.
They relented, with the caveat that if the Series ended after four games "his vacation will be cut short".
If you joined a team, you were expected to be available for every game; summer vacations or camps were not an acceptable excuse.
Kenya lost its dominance in the African safari trade, according to American travel agents, as many travelers opted for game-drive vacations in Botswana, South Africa and Tanzania.
But the coaches have agreed that since today's showdown is the last game of vacation it "counts for everything".
And Mr Rodríguez was clobbered with an unprecedented 211-game unpaid vacation, which would cover the remainder of this season and all of 2014.
A 51-year-old man returned from a 14-day game-viewing vacation in the Luangwa Valley of southern Zambia on October 11, 2000.
