Traveling Baseball
 

At which ballparks have you watched a major league, regular season game?

I'll start:

Fenway Park, not enough times, against Yankees and others (when I was a kid, we'd go to see Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle hit home runs)
Yankee Stadium, 4 times, Yanks - Red Sox
Oakland - Alameda County Colleseum (sp?), twice, A's - Red Sox

Fenway - many, many times
Wrigley - once and I'll never forget it
Dodger Stadium - Very cool views of city
Jacobs Field - bandBox but nice sitelines
Tropicana Field - Ugh inside baseball

Yankee Stadium - which REALLY does need to be replaced (so long as I'm not paying for part of it.)

Shea - which except for the occassional 1986 type year is eerily quiet most nights. I also have had the pleasure of playing on the Shea field twice.

Camden Yards - Made me realize how bad Yankee Stadium is.

Dodger Stadium - Like Shea, only cleaner.

PacBell or whatever it is called now. - Awesome place to watch a game.

Oakland Coliseum - Better than I expected. Food was way cheaper than Yankee Stadium.

I've had tickets for games at Coors Field, Safeco and Wrigley Field. But, missed the game every time because of work issues.

Fenway - at least 5 times a year for the past 20 years or so. While the new owners have done a lot to improve the experience of being at Fenway, it still is not comfortable. At least the bathrooms don't runneth over anymore. Love to sit in the monster seats some day.

Exhibition Stadium - where the Blue Jays played before the SkyDome.

SkyDome - Sox vs. Jays - nice, clean, somewhat sterile

Safeco - Mariners vs. A's - now this is a ballpark. Love the views from the concourse, love the beer gardens before you get into the park, love being able to stand right next to the bullpen and watch the pitchers warm up. Our seats were lousy but you could still see the game well enough.

Camden Yards - Sox v. Orioles - another beautiful park.

Do minor league parks count too?

Portland, Maine - home of the SeaDogs, nice enough
Lowell MAss - home of the Spinners - very nice for a small park.
Pawtucket, RI - home of the PawSox - not bad since the renovations.
Memphis TN - home of the Redbirds - best of the bunch.

Shea Stadium - Go Mets!
Yankee Stadium
Fenway Park
Dodger Stadium
Skydome
Wrigley Field
Camden Yards

Yankees, Shea, Coors Field, Comiskey...
also Philadelphia, Pittsburgh (can't remember the names of these parks). Next week I'll attend my 1st Padres game in San Diego, and hope to go to games in Houston and Washington this summer. I've been to around 50-100 major league games.

I think I'll be glued to baseball on TV all weekend after all these threads!

Atlanta Fulton County – many times
Turner Field – twice
Astrodome – many times
Yankee Stadium – once
Dodger Stadium – once last year when they won the NL West (WOW! Awesome memory!)
San Diego – pre-Petco – once in ‘85?


This year:

Wrigley – I HOPE!!!
Tropicana – Was not high on my list, but since we’re going to the beach “right there”, we must go!


Some have implied today that baseball is not travel related - I completely disagree! As far as I'm concerned, everything but a trip to the beach or overseas includes a ballpark!

Yankee Stadium
Fenway Park
Shea
The Vet
Skydome
Olympic Stadium
Camden Yard
Safeco
Pacbell
Oakland Coliseum
Edison
Dodger
Quaalcomm
BankOne
Coors
Wrigley
Comiskey (new)
County (Milwaukee)
Metrodome
Cinergy (Cincy)
Jake

This summer adding: new Philly, RFK, PNC...

Fenway, lots of times. Even got to sit in the Monster seats the first season they were open (bennie, it was awesome, hope you can win the lottery one of these seasons)

Dodger stadium
Safeco (even with the roof closed, it has a great skyline view. Nice park)
Yankee stadium

Loki - I want to be your friend. ;;)

Accompany with an asterisk if you must, but how 'bout Dodger Town in Vero Beach, FL?

Jacobs Field
Whatever the Angels call their park
Dodger Stadium
Safeco
The Stick

Wish I could say I'd been to more.

Ooooh, forgot the Kingdome. On second thought, that doesn't really count anyway.

Angels Stadium several times a year
Dodger Stadium a couple of times
Padres pre-Petco days

I know. I need to add to the list. One of my dreams would be to go on a baseball odessey.

Don't know all the stadiums names, they change too much and I'm too old to keep track:

Sox- Old Comiskey Park & U.S. Cell
countless numbers since 1952 aprox.
Cubs - can't remember it's name.
KS- Kaufman with the water fall (2)
Baltimore- Camden Yds. (2)
Boston- Fenway (2)won one /lost one
NYC- both Yankee and Shea both (we won
Yankee games I attended-2 each)
SF- PacBell
Milwaukee- old one & new one(we won)
Detroit- the old one and Comerica is in
June this year
Anaheim- May this year
Philadelphia- one game
SD- one game
TB- one game
Toronto- one game
Minnesota- Twinkies beat us
AZ- with Diamondback fans
St.Louis- 2 games (lost both to Cards)

Next year I will try to get to Texas or Oakland. Some of the dates are impossible for me as they occur when semester conflicts. With interleague play I now have more options. Yet, I have attended a couple of these above against teams not the W.Sox.

Boston – Fenway
NY – Shea and Yankee
Montreal – Jarry Park & the dome
Toronto - Exposition Park as well as SkyDome
Pittsburgh – Three Rivers
Cincinnati _ Riverfront
Washington – RFK for the Senators
Baltimore – Memorial and Camden Yards
Philly – the old stadium (pre-Vet) and the Vet
Chicago – Wrigley & Comiskey
Detroit – Tiger Stadium
Cleveland – the field pre-the Jake
Milwaukee – County stadium
St. Louis – Busch
Minneapolis – Municipal
KC – Royals Stadium
Houston –Astrodome
Texas - the old stadium
San Diego – Jack Murphy Stadium
LA - Dodger Stadium
Anaheim-Stadium
SF – Candlestick, SBC
Seattle- the Kingdome
Oakland – Oak. Alamedia ballpark
Atlanta- Fulton County

This is one of those list things that makes me feel really inadequate. <i>Oh shut up, honey - this is a family website...</i>

Most recent first

Yankee Stadium. How can one be a traveler and wait until one is offered (wrongly) senior discounts at the Golden Fork before getting to the HTRB? Last month, watched the Mariners - er, Yankees - beat the Orioles.

Safeco. Not trying to be a homer but boy it's a nice stadium. Most recent visit was as a guest in the Owners Suite. Now <i>that's</i> how to watch a game...

Kingdome. Of course we have to count it. Spent many a night there with a few dozen of my best friends. Also some pretty cool days back in '95.

Oakland. Before they tarted it up, it made the Kingdome look luxurious.

Candlestick. On earthquake day. Giants 0, Athletics 0, Mother Earth 1.

Cincinatti (Riverfront). Nice park, awful green A-turf at the time, interesting when the tornado sirens went off in the 4th inning.

Anaheim - Before, during and after the big A rose and fell.

Dodger Stadium - still my second fave field - been there for the Series, and before that when Sandy K and Don D were throwing and Vin Scully was under 80.

Wrigley Field - no, not the one in Chicago, the one in <i>Los Angeles</i> where the Angels played their first year, fitting because it was where the Pacific Coast League Angels played before the Dodgers came to town.

And first experience goes to the <i>LA Coliseum</i> where the Dodgers played when they first came west. Because it was track-and-field/football shaped, left field was something like 200 feet deep, so they erected a fence twice as tall as the Green Monster. If Duke Snider had batted right-handed (he threw RH but batted LH) his many popups would have been homers. To compensate, right center field was something like 425 to the fence; the only HR I saw there was by Frank Howard. I think it was still climbing when it went over the fence into the shadows down by the other endzone. Wonderful place to watch baseball, probably hellish place to play the game.

I hope I get to Fenway and the other Wrigley field before one of us gets torn down.

I'm jealous of my fellow baseball fans who are so well-travelled. Here's my sorry little list:

Busch Stadium. Where I learned baseball, with straight-A free tickets every year!
Wrigley Field
Comiskey Park
Royals Stadium
Candlestick Park
Pac Bell Park (charter season ticket holder but moved)
Angels Stadium (Three-year season ticket holder since moving from SF)

My list is really short...Safeco Field, lol! At least I have been lucky and get to go there often.

Gardyloo--My father was at Candlestick on earthquake day also!

Wrigley Field
US Cellular Field (and Comiskey before it)
Miller Park
Yankee Stadium
Shea Stadium
Dodger Stadium
Edison Field (I think it was called Angels Stadium back then)

We were supposed to go to a game at Busch Stadium last year but had to cancel. And I was at Turner Field recently, but not for a game.

So not that many, I guess...