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...

We friends who have set a goal to go to every major league baseball park - only a few more to go. She is unable to answer the question - if a team builds a new park and you have been to the old one, does it still count? If you have been to Montreal, does that count for the Nationals, or do you need to go to DC as well?

Gail,
The old parks are on my list first just in case they get torn down, but I hope this is a lifetime of travel for me. So, I would say it sort-of &quot;counts&quot; but I wouldn't stop going to them!

Each stadium really does have an individual feel. So I am trying to get to the newer one also. I'm redoing Detroit and redid Milwaukee etc.

MikeCT, where have you been all my life?

Probably married and going to ball games.

And I find some tickets are so much harder to get than others. PacBell were the hardest for me to get. You can't always plan these kind of getaways way ahead. I have to wait for airfare specials. The Anaheim deal is $79 each way from Midway right now.

I love Petco Park in San Diego, what a huge improvement over the ol' Murph.

We went to RFK last week. No personality, just a big concrete blob.

Dodger Stadium is always a fave with me.

JJ5,
I knocked off many of them 25 years ago when as a graduate student, I did a trip with a friend to all the ballparks one summer. Growing up my Dad was a big baseball fan and tried to take my brother and I to ballparks on vacation, and now I do it with my kids (in fact when my son was looking at colleges two yrs ago, we planned our visits around trips to Fenway and Camden Yards - it was the only way he'd go look at the schools)... last year we added SBC in SF to the list... hoping to add the new Philly stadium this year (at minimum)

St. Louis Cardinals: Sportsman's Park
Busch Stadium
Chicago Cubs: Wrigley Field
Chicago White Sox: Old Comiskey Park
Cellular Field
Colorado Rockies: Coors Field
Kane County Cougars: Elfstrom Stadium
Milwaukee Brewers: County Stadium
Miller Park
Montreal Expos: Olympic Park
Toledo Mudhens: Don't remember the name of their old stadium
New York Yankees: Yankee Stadium
Boston Red Sox: Fenway Park

Kingdom...

Safeco Field

Yankee Sta.

Turner Field

Bank One Ballpark (Phx.)

lots of the spring training fields in ?Arizona and Fla.(around Tampa/Orlando areas)

Holy Cow! you guys! am I jealous. Sadly the only place I have been is Atlanta Fulton County Stadium and the current Ted. But boy have I seen some games! First started going in '66 and have since been to hundreds of games. I almost got my beautiful wife convinced for Chicago July 4th weekend. And then I have to decide between the White Sox or Cubs! (man, those White Sox look good!) Anybody got some available tix? Is scalpers at game time easy?

Pittsburgh, Three Rivers Stadium
Pittsburgh, PNC Park
Philadelphia, Vet Stadium
Baltimore, Memorial Stadium?
Baltimore, Camden Yards
Atlanta, Fulton County Stadium
Houston, Astrodome
St. Louis, Busch Stadium
Milwaukee, an old stadium there
Phoenix, BOB
Seattle, Safeco Field
San Diego, Jack Murphy Stadium
Los Angeles, Dodger Stadium
Anaheim, the stadium
Oakland, Coliseum
San Francisco, Candlestick Park

Nippon Professional Baseball:
Fukuoka, Hawk Dome
Hiroshima, at the Carp stadium
Tokyo, the Dome
next: Koshien for Hanshin Tigers

Smokyboy, July 4th itself is a Monday and starts the White Sox /Tampa Bay home stand.

This normally would not be a hard ticket to get if it was just a normal Monday. But it is a holiday AND the Sox may be doing very well. It would definitely not be a 1/2 price Monday- Holidays never are.

And I would think that the Cubs tickets will be way/way more money with scalpers and legal re-sellers. Maybe not, but being a Holiday- I do think so.

One of things that is so odd to us every time we play &quot;good&quot; is that tickets get harder to get. We are so used to walking up to the window and having sections to choose from. So rarely do any of us buy 1/2 ticket plans etc. unless we are having a patio party or company sky box event.

If I were you I would order tickets by mail, you have time and choices now. Yes, there is always people selling them all over the place in the streets around and in front of the Cell. But there are too many forgers now (happens with the Bears CONSTANTLY) who can duplicate the ticket almost perfectly.

We are the &quot;city that works&quot; you know.

But if you want to decide that weekend, you will be able to buy tickets at the ticket window most likely at the Sox, not at the Cubs. Your choices will be less. I think we only sold out about 5 or 6 home games all last year. A good friend went to one of them and couldn't get a ticket and was stunned. This was not a Sox/Cubs series either. Those you can seldom buy on the street, if at all.

That's one think I love about the Sox as a fan, even the neighborhood kids get let in for nothing or next to nothing.

FACT: One of the kids I used to bring to the games on the park district bus from our suburb is now working as the White Sox PR etc. man. Shades of George Costanza exactly. He and my youngest son tailgating are now appearing in the center fold picture on the heavy brochure ticket plan they may send out to you on request. Don't know if they have a more limited edition now or a newer brochure. They might.

Two years ago this same son's dog was also featured on DOG DAY (tv news show). We have a Dog Day in the park when you can bring your dog to the game (sections are reserved for this) and it a riot.

Wrigley Field -- as a college student

The Vet and Citizens -- too easy, we live here, but we also saw Phillies' spring training at Jack Russell Stadium when they were still there

Fenway Park -- an overnight stop on the way to Maine

Yankee Stadium -- a Father's Day gift to my husband

Camden Yards -- to sit in a decent ballpark before the Vet was demolished

And, if minor league parks count . . .

Reading Phillies in Reading, PA
Vermont Expos in Winooski, VT
Albuquerque Isotopes in Albuquerque, NM