On Aug. 3, 2011, Mark Berg was poised to celebrate a remarkable
personal accomplishment. He would be visiting his 1,000th venue
as a sports fan, an achievement few mortals can claim.  To
celebrate, he would attend a collegiate summer baseball game at
the Wareham Gatemen's stadium in Wareham, Mass. Since previous
venues ranged from Wimbledon to Wrigley Field to the River Plate
soccer stadium in Buenos Aires, it was natural to ask why he had
chosen such a modest venue for this landmark event.  "When
you've been to as many sporting events as I have, you start to
run out of venues," the 61-year-old Berg explains. "I was
visiting a friend; there was a game on that night. Believe it or
not, the Cape Cod League is very competitive."  Sportswriters
attend thousands of games over the course of their lives, but
few will visit a thousand venues. And while there are ordinary
people who have attended, say, every Dodgers home game since
1965, those events all take place in a single stadium.  Mark
Berg poses at one of the 1