Caches in the "Ball" series
Ball One: Sick's Seattle Stadium
Ball Two: Kingdome
Ball Three: Safeco Field
Ball Four
This cache owes its name to Ball Four, the brilliant exposé written by Jim Bouton, former Seattle Pilot. Though the book doesn't directly relate to the cache, I do wish to recommend it to anyone who loves baseball -- especially if you live in Seattle.
The listed coordinates will take you to a familiar place, though, chances are you've never been there before. You are looking for some information at this spot. Using the clue from the "Ball Three" cache should get you pretty close to a three-digit number on a small clear plastic sticker, that is located near the cache listing coordinates. Subtract .010 from that number, and use that value for YYY.
The actual cache is hidden at the coordinates:
N 47° 35.XXX
W 122° 19.YYY
The value for XXX? If you've found the "Ball One" and "Ball Two" caches, you've been given a clue in the form of a question. The answer to that question is the name of a former major league baseball player. All you have to do is determine how many home runs the mystery player hit in his career. Multiply that number by 158 and take the last three digits of the result. Those three digits are XXX.
The general location of the final cache affords a nice view of the stadium district. Once you have solved for the final coordinates, you can grab the final if, like a baseball player, you go to the warning track, and near the corner of the fence, just out of bounds, reach up into the foliage to make a spectacular catch!
The cache is a small black painted plastic container, with a log and some baseball trading cards and maybe some baseball related trading items inside. Please continue the theme if possible.
Please bring your own writing utensil.
Good luck!
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June 2012
The cache has been relocated multiple times throughout its life, due to frequent muggling by many transients passing through the area, and removal of elements that previously sheltered the cache location. The park has also undergone extensive renovation over the years which has required cache moves. Note that depending on when you did the math to solve the puzzle, the location may have changed!