Man Attends 10,000 Baseball Games in 61 Years

Mike Casiano stood in Section 515 at Citi Field as the video board flashed a simple message: "Congrats on MLB game 10K, King Mike Casiano!" The 73-year-old from Queens had just done something that seems mathematically impossible.

Ten thousand professional baseball games. If you attended every single game of an 162-game MLB season, it would take 62 years. If you only caught home games, you'd need 123 years.

Casiano's baseball journey started innocently enough. His father took him to Yankee Stadium on May 26, 1963, when he was 10 years old. Over the next 12 years, he only made it to 64 games total.

But in the late 1970s, something changed. At 23, single and living in New York, Casiano made a decision that would define his life. "I decided I wanted to see every Mets home game," he said.

He became a fixture in Section 1 at the top of Shea Stadium, earning the nickname "King" from legendary sports fan Donald "Fuzzy" Cohen. In 1977, he attended 68 games. By 1980, he hit 99 games in a season.

Casiano worked as a mail handler at the post office, taking overnight shifts from midnight to 8:30 am. "That was easy, I'd go to a ballgame and go to work from there," he explained. Some days he'd catch an afternoon game in Philly, then rush back for a doubleheader in New York.

He pulled off three games in one day 20 different times. He'd take 3:30 am buses to Boston, watch the Red Sox, then fly back for a doubleheader. Sleep became optional when baseball was available.

Sunny's Take

What makes Casiano's story special isn't just the number. It's the community he built along the way. Fellow superfans in the King's Court, ballpark hawks from Pittsburgh to Ottawa, and twenty-somethings from Queens all gathered to celebrate his milestone. They found more than baseball in those seats. They found home.

Ed "Tike" Narry meticulously tracked every game through Casiano's handwritten logs to verify the accomplishment. Friends joined him on Minor League road trips to 132 different stadiums across North America, from Zebulon, North Carolina to Vancouver.

"I've been overwhelmed by the support I've gotten from so many," Casiano said quietly, as if still processing six decades of memories. "I've been totally overwhelmed."

At 73, the King sits surrounded by friends who share his love for the game, proving that the best seats in any stadium are the ones filled with people who understand your passion.