Ken Jennings is taking his son Dylan on a trip through Major League Baseball ballparks, and the Jeopardy! host says the visits are already turning into a fast-moving trivia project. In a recent PEOPLE interview, Jennings said he is trying to see all the major league ballparks with Dylan and that many of the stadiums are places he had never been before.
That has left him with fresh material for the kind of knowledge he has built a career around. Jennings said he can now talk about Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, including the fountains and waterfalls, and said he is accumulating Major League ballpark trivia at an alarming rate. He also posted a photo of himself and Dylan at a Seattle Mariners game last May, a rare glimpse into a family outing from a man who does not often share much about his children online.
Jennings and his wife, Mindy, are the parents of Dylan, born in 2002, and Caitlin, born in 2006. He has said before that parenting never stays fixed for long. In 2021, Jennings said it was always a moving target and compared being a dad to being a cruise director, with the job often requiring him to set the tone, keep the family moving and stay upbeat even when that is not his natural style.
That same instinct seems to carry into the ballpark trips. The visits are about baseball, but they are also about time with his son and the easy way Jennings has folded his worklife into home life. In a recent interview, he said his children believe him when he tries to parent because he is the host of Jeopardy!, a small but telling advantage that even Mindy, he said, finds irritating. For Jennings, the result is a season of family travel and a growing stockpile of stadium facts, with Kauffman Stadium now firmly in the mix.
The trip adds a new chapter to the public image Jennings has built as the face of Jeopardy!, a role that has made him one of television’s most recognizable quiz masters. For readers who remember his long run on the show, the Ken Jennings Jeopardy Streak: Host Rejects He Ended 74-Game Run piece explored his past on the program, while Jeopardy Records: Ken Jennings jokes about successors after podcast question looked at how he keeps engaging with the franchise. This time, though, the story is less about buzzer battles than about a father and son collecting ballparks one stop at a time — and Jennings has made clear that he is not just along for the ride, he is keeping score in trivia along the way.
