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 "counts" 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 "good" 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 "city that works" 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