ken jennings is turning ballparks into a father-son project, saying he and his son Dylan are trying to visit every Major League Baseball stadium together. He made the remarks on April 30 at the opening night of the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, Calif., a rare public glimpse into family life from the Jeopardy! host.
“I'm trying to see all the Major League ballparks with my son,” Jennings said. The trips have already fed his trivia stash, and he joked that he is “accumulating Major League ballpark trivia at an alarming rate.”
Jennings Adds Kauffman Stadium Facts
Jennings said many of the parks are new to him, which is why the trip is producing fresh details instead of routine repeat visits. He pointed to Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, saying, “Hey, I have trivia about Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. I know about the fountains and the waterfalls now,” a comment that shows how the schedule is doubling as a personal research tour through MLB venues.
The 51-year-old host has occasionally posted photos of himself and Dylan at sporting events, including a 2022 X post from an MLB game. In that post, he wrote, “The last time his team made it to the playoffs, this guy wasn't born yet. He just started his sophomore year of college. Congrats @Mariners!”
Dylan Keeps His Own Lane
Jennings said Dylan has no interest in competing in his father’s field: “He doesn't want to compete in his dad's domain, and that's fine by me,” he said. That leaves the stadium project as a shared activity rather than a duel over trivia, and it fits with the looser parenting style Jennings described in 2021, when he said, “Parenting is always a moving target,” and added that listening is central because “the kid will tell you what you need.”
For Jennings, the real value is the crossover between travel and memory. He and Mindy Jennings share two children, Dylan and Caitlin, born in 2002 and 2006, and the ballpark chase gives one of them a built-in reason to keep showing up for another city, another stadium, and another entry in the family record book.
April 30 at TCM Festival
The public appeal here is straightforward: Jennings is not packaging the trips as nostalgia, but as an ongoing plan with a clear endpoint. If he and Dylan keep moving park to park, the story is not the destination alone; it is the growing pile of specific ballpark memories that turns a season of travel into something both of them can carry long after the final stadium is checked off.
