The old Cleveland Municipal (now demolished), Jacobs Field (which I think has since been renamed but is still physically there), and whatever stadium it is the Phillies play in.
Fenway Park
Qualcomm Stadium
(Old) Yankee Stadium
Shea Stadium
The Skydome
Veteran’s Stadium
Camden Yards
Given that list, along with the note that the last time I was at Fenway was something like 2001, I don’t think it’ll be a huge surprise when I say that Camden was the nicest and it wasn’t particularly close.
16 Teams, 18 Stadiums (Stadia?). SD and Balt are the doubles.
I planned out a road trip last year that would have netted me 5 more in the midwest - but sadly I was unable to make it happen.
I clicked on “2-4” before realizing that I’ve been to both Old Yankee and New Yankee, and to both Shea and Citi Field. I guess I was thinking in terms of home teams, not of actual buildings. So my real count is 6, the other two being Camden Yards and Kauffman Stadium.
In non-game tours, I’ve also been to SkyDome (now called the Rogers Centre) and Olympic Stadium in Montreal.
Dammit. Note to self, click poll result before typing a response.
Seen games at:
Candlestick Park
Pacific Bell Park
Oakland Coliseum (before and after Mount Davis)
Dodger Stadium (for SF @ LA and for the 2008 WBC Final)
Angel Stadium
PNC Park
(Old) Yankee Stadium
Citi Field
I dunno; how old are you? Could be Crosley Field, but more likely it’s Riverfront. They moved in 1970.
With my ratings, updated, from a previous thread, with some additions:
9 - Pacific Bell Park, San Francisco Giants (or whatever its current corporate name is.) Fantastic stadium in every respect; beautiful location, lovely ballpark, kid-friendly, great walk-around value, and you have to adore the garlic fries. Does get very cold at night.
8 - Petco Park, San Diego Padres. As nice as you’ve heard.
7 - Comerica Park, Detroit Tigers. Very lovely park, and one thing I like about it is they took the idea of a park being built primarily for a particular team and really ran with it. Major disadvantage: it’s in Detroit.
7 - Turner Field, Atlanta Braves. A shockingly nice park; you would never, ever know it was once an Olympic coliseum. Has a Braves Hall of Fame, which is a great idea not used many other places. Easy to get good seats and a lovely park. Loses points for there being nothing of interest around it.
7- Wrigley Field, Chicago. Finally did see it last year and enjoyed it.
6 - Rogers Centre, Toronto Blue Jays. Significantly improved over the last five years due to a concerted refurbishment effort; would have earned a 4 in 2004. Still too much concrete and astroturf and not enough good food, but unique, great sightlines, and unquestionably the best LOCATED stadium in all of baseball.
6- Cellular Field, Chicago White Sox. Not as bad as I have been led to believe. Good looking park, good food, nice area in center field. Reasonably priced. Loses two points for being in the damned ghetto.
6 - Bank One Ballpark, Or Whatever It Is Now, Arizona Diamondbacks - A modern park with nice amenities, but a bit too vertical in construction and the structure of the outfield looks stupid in person. Well located.
5 - Fenway Park, Boston. A lot of points for history and an enthusiastic crowd; not actually a comfortable park, though. Very expensive and the food was surprisingly bad, though maybe my expectations were too high. Definitely not Wrigley. Location is an unfortunate combination of being in an area that’s hard to get to and yet simultaneously not near anything else you’re planning on seeing. Still, hey, there aren’t many ballparks with this kind of history.
5 - Angels Stadium, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Orange County California - Serviceable. Accessibly only by car, so far as I can tell. Not ugly, nice walkaround, but nothing special. Very good, enthusiastic fans, which I did not expect.
5 - Miller Park, Milwaukee. Serviceable. Actually, it’s above average inside, but very, very poorly located and getting from your car to the stadium is only a slightly shorter walk than if I’d just started walking from my house in Ontario.
5 - Old Yankee Stadium, New York Yankees. For all its glory and history it was in a lousy neighborhood and the place looked its age.
4 - Exhibition Stadium, Toronto - One of the more ill advised ballparks in recent baseball history, but ranks above the really bad ones by virtue of a very nice location, a good crowd, and being sort of goofy and charming.
3 - Shea Stadium, New York Mets - Bleah. Nothing, really, was good about this park.
2 - Whatevertheycallit Coliseum, Oakland. Hideous ballpark, terrible food, located nowhere.
0 - Stade Olympique, Montreal Expos - Hideous. An absolute dungheap and an embarassment to Major League Baseball. It was painful to attend games in this gigantic pile of merde.
The emphasis is mine. I hate the Angels and I’m not particularly fond of the stadium, but I want to be fair in case it changes your rating at all.
Angels Stadium is not just accessible by regular bus, but there is a Metrolink (local commuter rail line) / Amtrak station stop at the far end of the parking lot. Definitely a viable and comfortable way to get to a game from Downtown LA or Downtown San Diego and all points in between (not to mention rail and bus lines that connect with that Metrolink/Amtrak line).
Exhibition Stadium
Rogers Centre
Comerica Park
Olympic Stadium
Fenway Park (I was just over a year old so I’m not counting it.)
Gah…one of these days I’m finally going to make that road trip.
The only home team I’ve ever watched in person is the Seattle Mariners, and I’ve seen games in both the Kingdome and Safeco Field. Safeco Field is much, much better than the Kingdome 
Wow, I’m the only one who clicked “Over 30” so far. (Surely there are more of you out there!)
My MLB tally stands at 45, actually. Been going on a week-long trip every year with my best buddy since 1989. As of 2009, the only three current parks I have not been to are the two new ones in New York, and Coors Field (inexcusable, but scheduling and geography have conspired against it for years). The Twins get a new stadium this season, and we plan to notch that one pretty quickly. There’s a chance we’ll finally get Denver this year, too, but I’m not betting on it.
Defunct stadiums I’ve visited:
Memorial Stadium, Baltimore
Comiskey Park, Chicago
Cleveland Municipal Stadium
Tiger Stadium, Detroit
Kingdome, Seattle
Arlington (Texas) Stadium
Fulton County Stadium, Atlanta
Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia
Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnatti
Astrodome, Houston
County Stadium, Milwaukee
Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh
Busch Stadium, St. Louis
Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego
Candlestick Park, San Francisco
Olympic Stadium, Montreal
(Maybe I’ll start a similar thread about Minor League parks – 117 and counting!)
I just remembered I wrote the following about a year ago in a thread asking folks to rank their MLB stadium visits. This doesn’t include Nationals Stadium, which I liked but didn’t love. I’d probably stick it between Comerica and Safeco.
Re-posted:
- Wrigley Field, Chicago - Yeah, it does help that it’s home to my favorite team, but even if it weren’t I think I’d love it. There are some things wrong with the old girl (obstructed view seats, narrow walkways, crummy bathrooms), but there’s oh so much right about it. To me it is a shrine, and when I’m at Wrigley there is never anyplace else in the world I want to be.
- Fenway Park, Boston – Suffers from some of the same old age maladies as Wrigley, but there’s no place you’ll get closer to the game or its history. Looking out at the Green Monster is the closest you’ll ever come to Baseball Heaven (unless you’re looking at the ivy at Wrigley!).
- Yankee Stadium, New York – I’m a big Yankee-hater from way back, but even so, Yankee Stadium is hallowed ground to any baseball fan. I look forward to visiting the new place, but I doubt they’ll come close to recreating the aura of the House That Ruth Built.
- Camden yards, Baltimore – The best of the newer stadiums. The Eutaw street vending area gives it a cool old-timey feel, but it’s got great sightlines and all the modern amenities.
- Pac Bell Park (or whatever it’s being called these days), San Francisco – McCovey Cove, the giant baseball glove, garlic fries… what’s not to love?
- Old Comiskey Park, Chicago – Some great memories I’ve had there might have this higher on this list than it might otherwise be, but this old joint sure had character.
- Petco Park, San Diego - Great architecture, and it’s almost always baseball weather there! I especially like the incorporation of an old existing building into the ballpark.
- Jacobs Field, Cleveland – It’s a nice, comfortable, modern facility in a convenient location. But it’s the atmosphere that made it a great time, at least when I was there. Cleveland truly does rock, and the game felt more like a party.
- PNC Park, Pittsburgh – Another beautiful new facility, but with lots of homage to Pirates history. Great views of the rivers and surrounding areas too.
- Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati – A fine place to see a ball game, with nice architectural nods to its riverfront location. And Skyline Chili Dogs at the concession stands!!!
- New Busch Stadium, St. Louis – A really nice new park with lots of personality.
- Tiger Stadium, Detroit – Another old historic park, but by the time I got there it had become fairly run-down, and it was in a truly terrible neighborhood. Still, I’m glad I went.
- Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia – It really is a nice stadium. Just too bad it’s in the middle of nowhere…
- Miller Park, Milwaukee – My favorite of the retractable-roof stadiums. From tailgating in the parking lot to Bernie Brewer and his big slide, It’s a guaranteed fun time at the ol’ ball park.
- Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City – It’s stuck waaay out on the Interstate with nothing at all around it…. But it’s really a nice place. The fountains in the outfield are a nice unique feature.
- County Stadium, Milwaukee – I always thought of County Stadium as Wrigley’s little sister. It was nowhere near as beautiful or historic, but the game day atmosphere was similar. And again, the tailgates were always a fun time!
- New Comiskey Park, Chicago – I never bought into the complaints about the steep upper deck. The sightlines are good, the food is great, it’s a good place to watch baseball. Just doesn’t inspire much passion in me. The overall look is dull and sterile.
- Comerica Park, Detroit – It’s a nice, comfortable, new place. Aside from the big Tiger sculptures, though, there’s just nothing all that interesting about it.
- Safeco Field, Seattle – The same architects who built New Comiskey are responsible for Safeco as well, and it kind of reminded me of Comiskey with a sliding roof. Nice enough place. Fun neighborhood around it.
- The Ballpark @ Arlington, Arlington TX – Big and square, it’s like they built an old-style city stadium in the middle of a massive parking lot.
- Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles – Not bad, but it actually has much less charm than it appears to on TV. Ridiculous traffic and parking nightmare.
- Turner Field, Atlanta – Much like Comerica, it’s a nice but not all that exciting place. Went there on a chilly, rainy evening though, so maybe I’m not giving it a fair shake.
- Bank One Ballpark (now Chase Field), Phoenix – A huge warehouse of a place, innovative when it was built but already a bit dated.
- Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim CA – It tries hard, but it ultimately has a mall/theme park kind of feel, in the land of malls and theme parks.
- Alameda County Stadium, Oakland – A multi-use park that nevertheless works pretty well for baseball. Clean and comfortable, not much of an atmosphere.
- Skydome, Toronto – The first retractable-roof stadium was a technical marvel in its time, but it’s a white elephant now. Too big for its own good, and it still has artificial turf!
- Candlestick Park, San Francisco – Not the best place for baseball, but what a unique old joint that was.
- Minute Maid Park, Houston – Way too many bells and (train) whistles. Sensory overload from the relentless turned-up-to-11 music and 43 different scoreboards made it tough to enjoy the game.
- Memorial Stadium, Baltimore – A decent, stately old place, but not a lot to recommend about it. It lived past its prime.
- Arlington Stadium, Arlington TX – It was a minor league stadium before the Rangers moved in, and it looked and felt every bit the part. A field surrounded by some bleachers. Yawn.
- Old Busch Stadium, St. Louis – Very similar to other cookie-cutter round stadiums of its era, Busch gets some extra points for the Gateway Arch-inspired design elements and good downtown neighborhood.
- Shea Stadium, New York – Also similar to the round buildings but open to the outfield to break up the monotony a bit. The upper deck is so high you can almost touch the planes flying over from LaGuardia, and you get 200 chances a game to do it.
33 – 36. Fulton County Stadium, Atlanta; Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh; Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati; Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia – Here’s those cookie cutter circles I was talking about. Devoid of all personality, they might all have been built from the same blueprint. Fulton is first on the list because it had real grass. But still.
37-38. Pro Player Stadium, Miami; Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego - At least the round parks were built for baseball. These are first and foremost football stadiums where they play(ed) baseball. Doesn’t really work. - Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Cleveland – Another football stadium, but a gargantuan, monstrous, cavernous one. Baseball had no business anywhere near this building.
- Olympic Stadium, Montreal – Kind of cool looking from the outside, but ugly and boring as hell inside. I give it a few points for having a roof that was designed to be opened – except that it was broken for about the last decade of its use as the Expos’ stadium and stayed permanently closed. It was like being in a giant tent.
- Astrodome, Houston – I hate, hate, HATE permanent-dome stadiums. The Astrodome was less horrific than some others, but it was still awful. This is they place they invented Astroturf for, for Cripes sake.
- Kingdome, Seattle – Ugly inside and out. Went there on a beautiful sunny afternoon and it was grey and dreary inside. Yuk.
- Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, FL – Ditto everything about the Kingdome, but it’s lower on the list because the playing surface is in terrible shape and because they still freaking play there! I hope the recent success the Rays have had will renew interest in a new stadium there.
- Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis – Truly an abomination. A domed warehouse-like football stadium with fake grass, and folded-in football grandstands showing behind that stupid Hefty-bag outfield wall when they play baseball there. Which they shouldn’t. Ever.
I’ve only been to two:
Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati (I live here), which I absolutely love. It helps that the owner of the business I work for is a minority owner of the Reds and a Diamond club seat ticket holder, and is generous about giving me tickets to about 2-3 games a year. Those seats are behind home plate, off-center to the right so you can see the pitches cross the plate, and within normal speaking voice distance of the Reds dugout and the on-deck circle. I’ve chatted up Ken Griffey Jr, Adam Dunn, etc a few times. These tickets are freaking $225 each per game. He has four seats and gets tickets to all the games. Its unbelievable how expensive that is. He spends more on season tickets to the Reds than he pays me in a year!
I’ve also been to Camden Yards once when I lived in the DC area, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Its a really cool place.
50’s and 60’s
Municipal Stadium in Cleveland
Forbes Field in Pittsburgh
Tiger Stadium (I think it was called that at the time 60s in Detroit)
Fenway Park
Old Yankee Stadium
Polo Grounds in NY
Shea Stadium in NY
Shibe Park in Philly
Chavez Ravine in LA
Candlestick Park in SF
Griffith Stadium in Washington
I saw Crosley Field, Ebbets Field, Sportsman Park in Cincinnati, Brooklyn, and St Louis, but never saw a game there.
70’s (some of the above again) plus
Old Comiskey
Wrigley Field both in Cicago
Busch in St/ Louis
Riverfront in Cincinnati
Three Rivers in Pittsburgh
Veteran Stadium in Philly
Milwaukee County Stadium
Metrodome in Minnesota
Oakland’s Stadium
later
Jacobs Field in Cleveland
Sorry, it wasn’t the Metrodome in Minnesota. It was whatever filed preceded that one. But the count is still 21
Whatever you think about this stadium, it was definitely not a football Stadium. It was horribly suited for football. There were almost no seats that were close to the field of play. One of the end zones was about at second base. The other end zone was close to the bleachers and those end zone seats were the closest seats to the field of play It was reasonably well suited for baseball though seating 70+ thousand, it was much too big and many seats were too far away. I was at one double header however, where it was virtually filled.
It was originally built in an attempt to lure the 32 Olympics to Cleveland.
in order:
Wrigley Field (various times since 1988)
Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego (1998)
RFK (2007)
Nationals Park (2008–saw the Cubs on two consecutive days)
US Cellular (2008)
Seven Ballparks - But six of them are no longer used.
RFK Stadium - Senators
Jarry Parc - Old Montreal Expo Stadium
Yankee Stadium - Yankees (Duh)
Busch Stadium (old) - Cardinals
Atlanta Fulton County Stadium - Braves
Shea Stadium - Mets
Plus Fenway Park - Red Sox
ETA - Abner Doubleday Field Cooperstown NY
Oops I forgot that I attended a game at the Skydome in Toronto. I actually stayed at the Skydome hotel and had a room overlooking the ballpark.
I haven’t seen a football game there, so I’ll take your word on its unsuitability for football. I still maintain that the place wasn’t fit for baseball either, though. It was just too damn big, with more obstructed views than I’ve seen any place else.
Quick anecdote: I went there once in the early 1990s (when the Indians were terrible) on an absolutely gorgeous sunny Saturday afternoon, and was one of just 1,644 in attendance. This would be a small crowd almost anywhere - imagine what it looked like in this 70,000-seat behemoth!