Amanda Lippert earned a B.A. in History from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY and Master's degree in Education with a concentration in Special Education from Western Connecticut State University. Amanda has been a 7th grade Social Studies teacher at a middle school in New York for 8 years. She has also coached track and softball.

Back in January 2008, Amanda began exchanging e-mails with someone she met online through Yahoo Personals. After a few e-mails, she found out that she was talking to Brian Merzbach (of www.ballparkreviews.com). Not only was it a coincidence that Brian also had a stadium website, but that Amanda had been using Brian's site to help her decide which stadiums to visit.......and that Brian only lived about a half hour away. Neither Amanda nor Brian had mentioned in their profile their love of baseball stadiums. Talk about a coincidence.

On February 14th 2009, Brian proposed to Amanda in Cooperstown, NY after a day at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Despite the fact that Brian is a Red Sox fan and Amanda is a Yankee fan, she still said "yes".

And for anyone who is curious, we will still be maintaining our separate websites.

If you'd like to contact Amanda: amanda@baseballstadiumreviews.com