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Until this summer, perhaps the most remarkable thing about Darren O'Donnell was that he emerged a Cincinnatti Reds fan from a childhood spent in Idaho. Then he took two of his passions -- biking and baseball -- and formed another unlikely combination, attempting to ride his bike to every Major League Baseball stadium in a six-month summer odyssey.

More than 8,000 miles, countless flat tires and one HBC (hit-by-car) later, and O'Donnell, 24, has reached 18 of the 30 ballparks.

A resident of Bellingham, Wash., and graduate of Western Washington University, O'Donnell was working at a food co-op when he joined friends on a biking trip to Chico, Calif., last April. O'Donnell, who never owned a car, had only biked short distances within his community but enjoyed the road trip so much that he came up with the idea of a bicycle baseball pilgrimage.