Personal

General

• I go by my middle name, Bailey.  My full name is Jason Bailey Heath; hence, the URL 🙂.

  • My dad is the REAL Jason Heath!

• I've lived in many different cities and states!

  • I was born in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

  • I briefly lived in Atlanta, GA as a toddler.

  • I lived in Hilton Head Island, SC throughout elementary school and the first half of middle school.

  • I lived in Ponte Vedra, FL from January 2010 until June 2011 .

  • I then moved to Hummelstown, PA, where I attended Lower Dauphin High School.

  • I attended Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA for my undergraduate career.

  • I lived in Columbia, SC during my PhD program, where I was a third generation University of South Carolina (the REAL USC 😉) Gamecock!

  • I have lived in New Haven, CT since July 2024.

• I got married on August 6, 2022 to Meagan Cobb (now Dr. Meagan Heath), who earned her PhD in Spanish at USC in May 2024.

Baseball

My biggest non-academic interest is baseball!

• I played baseball from the time I was four years old through the end of high school.

  • In high school I mostly played second base, shortstop, and third base, although I also played pitcher and catcher when I was younger.

• My favorite Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox.

• I'm a big fan of sabermetrics and would love to continue learning more about them.

• I dream of visiting all 30 MLB stadiums; currently, I've been to 17 and have 13 more to go.  Here are the ones that I've been to, along with the corresponding team for each (in alphabetical order by team name).

  • Truist Park (Atlanta Braves) (I also went to a game at their former stadium, Turner Field, as a child!)

  • Oriole Park at Camden Yards (Baltimore Orioles)

  • Fenway Park (Boston Red Sox)

  • Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs)

  • Guaranteed Rate Field (Chicago White Sox)

  • Progressive Field (Cleveland Guardians)

  • Coors Field (Colorado Rockies)

  • loanDepot Park (Miami Marlins) (This was actually a World Baseball Classic game in 2023 between the Dominican Republic and Venezuela!)

  • Citizens Bank Park (Philadelphia Phillies)

  • PNC Park (Pittsburgh Pirates)

  • Citi Field (New York Mets)

  • Yankee Stadium (New York Yankees)

  • Petco Park (San Diego Padres)

  • Oracle Park (San Francisco Giants)  (Haven't been to a game yet, but I did take a tour.)

  • Tropicana Field (Tampa Bay Rays)

  • Rogers Centre (Toronto Blue Jays) (I also went to a game played at TD Ballpark in Dunedin, FL when the Blue Jays briefly called it home in 2021!)

  • Nationals Park (Washington Nationals)

Music

I love listening to music!  You can usually find me with headphones on.  Here are some of my favorite artists (in alphabetical order) along with a link to a song of theirs that I enjoy and that you might not know.