Bullitt, I’m surprised at how little you’ve seen of the SoCal stadiums with you being in California, but at least you’ve been!
I used to agree with you about AT&T until I went to PNC earlier this year. It’s my new favorite. A different but equally beautiful view, in my opinion, and with better food and MUCH better accessibility.
And for those counting stadiums where you never saw games, I’ll add that I once stood outside the gates of Coors Field on a non-game day. And I took a tour of Busch Stadium the First.
I’m intrigued by the list of answers and what it suggests about the audience; the Dodgers are well behind a lot of other teams despite being, in fact, the most attended professional sports team that has ever existed.
Cardinals - 1
Reds - 1
Cubs - 2
Red Sox - 1
Phillies - 1
Nationals - 1
Pirates - 1 (oops, left that out of my poll response by accident)
Yankees - 3 (all prior to 1997 - I haven’t made it into “new” Yankee Stadium yet)
Orioles - 7 or 8
Mets - lots. rough estimate, 200 at Citi Field and 75 at Shea.
Being a native Marylander, I’ve seen the O’s a ton of times, though I’ve only been to Camden Yards once. I’ve been to both Nats stadiums since they’ve come to town. I saw the Angels once when I was a young kid at I guess the old Anaheim stadium. There’s also the possibility that I’ve seen a Dodgers game, but that I don’t remember.
I’ve checked 14 teams. But only 5 of those are for the teams current stadiums, and that number is so large only because, the Red Sox, Cubs, Dodgers, and Yankees have been in their current stadiums for so long. But I’m not sure if I’d even count the current Yankee stadium as the one I was in in the 60s.
I know it’s been extensively remolded, but aren’t the outside walls the same structure? That’s quite a bit different from other changes where the stadium isn’t even in the same location.
Fenway Park is quite a bit different from when I was there as well. Then it had no monster seats or the upper boxes.
Blue Jays
Cubs
Mariners
Mets
Nationals
Orioles
Padres
Phillies
Red Sox
Yankees
I also saw games at the old stadiums for the Mets, Yankees, Padres, and Phillies. Most of those are one game apiece, with the exception of Baltimore and Boston (the two MLB cities in which I’ve lived for an extended period of time). I actually think Baltimore is still in the lead, even though I was only there for four years: discount week night and college night tickets made for a shockingly affordable night out, especially given that I couldn’t legally buy overpriced beer at the time.
Didn’t make any additions this year since our summer travel didn’t hit any baseball cities, but Pittsburgh and San Francisco are both on the possible list for next year.
A’s, Giants, Padres, Mariners, Mets. And I’m at best a fairly mild fan who all in all prefers watching on TV.
But four of those stadiums were with a baseball-crazy friend of mine, who I traveled with occasionally when we were both in college. The fifth was via a college job working at the stadium in question, which said baseball-crazy friend also essentially got me :). I’ve seen maybe 7-8 full games live and probably pieces of ~three hundred+ more when I was working( three full seasons, but I didn’t work every single game ).
Hmmm…maybe 200+ pieces of games - forgot to calculate in away games. Really it all blends together. An inning or three over two vs. three hundred games amounts to about the same to me at this point.
Cubs
White Sox
Cardinals
Mets
Yankees
Tigers
Blue Jays
Phillies
Twins
Brewers
Expos
Braves
Padres
Rockies
Reds
For the Sox, Cardinals, Jays, Mets, and Yankees there have been games at two different home fields. For several other teams, like the Tigers and Phillies, the ballpark where I saw the game(s) is now extinct.
Not sure when I’ll make it over the hump. Almost made it to a Red Sox game at Fenway last spring; I was at a conference, and was meeting some people for dinner on Thursday, which left Friday for a game. But before I bought my ticket, the dinner was changed to Friday. No game Thursday. Oh well. (I have seen a minor league game at Fenway.) I am planning to get to a Nationals game in late September, which would add a stadium but not a new home team under the OP’s definition (and mine as well). Maybe Pittsburgh or Baltimore some one of these days…
Because I am kind of compulsive and also kind of nuts, I have the scorecard I kept from every game I have seen, except six (three when I was either too young to score or neglected to save it for posterity, and three because the White Sox ran out of them that day and it didn’t occur to me to open up a popcorn box or something). As a result, I know the exact numbers for each team: they’re listed in order above from most games (Cubs, by a lot) to least (one apiece beginning with the Brewers). Best record with me in the park, outside of a couple of 1-0 and 2-0 teams: the Yankees. Worst record, outside of a few teams at 0-1 and 0-2: the Padres. Told you I was nuts…
Cubs: About 5, I would have gone more from 2012-2015, but I was working second and third shifts.
Marlins: About 8 in the Dolphins stadium, mostly with promotional tickets from buying beer.
Dodgers: About 5, they used to have cheap top deck tickets in the 1990s
Giants:Once, at Candlestick
Diamondbacks: About ten, my only opening day. Most of my others were from tickets given away at work or else promotional discounted tickets from grocery store rewards.
Padres: Twice, at Jack Murphy
White Sox: Once, for the next to last game of the season, honoring Paul Konerko
Rangers: About 4 times, would have gone more often, but expensive parking and ungodly heat.
Astros: Once, in the Astrodome
A’s: Once, at the Colosseum on one of the hottest days the Bay Area has ever seen.
Angels: About 8 times. Once at Anaheim Stadium prior to the remodeling and approximately 7 times after the Edison Field renovations. The late 90’s Angels had tickets for as low as $5 or so in the outfield when they weren’t great.
For anyone planning to eventually visit all teams’ home parks, I suggest the MLB Ballpark Passport as a fun way to track progress. I got one as a gift from my brother after I’d been to 10+ parks but I’ve been updating it as I go. It is a fun book of memories.
Yes we get to southern Cal often. My brother lives in Pasadena. But when we go we don’t do baseball. Maybe we should. He’s a fan and I’d like to see Dodger Stadium again.
As for PNC vs AT&T, my being a Giants fan probably is influencing my choice. But I try to be as objective as I can. Either way, the two best gems for ballparks are those two. And the two hallowed shrines are Fenway and Wrigley.
For my PNC Park visit my wife and I stayed in a downtown hotel and walked to the game across the Clemente Bridge. A nice and unique experience.
Orioles, many many times at Memorial Stadium, and sadly just a few times at Camden Yards.
Dodgers, I think 3 or 4 times.
Angels, I think around 7 or 8 times (I try to see the O’s when they do road trips out here).
Fenway, once, when I was in college in Boston. Wish I’d gone more.
Phillies, once. I grew up in Baltimore (obviously), and had a childhood friend who was a huge Phillies fan and his family took us to game there once, at the old Veterans Stadium.
I’ve seen the Padres play in five different parks: Westgate, San Diego Stadium, Jack Murphy Stadium, Qualcomm Stadium and Petco Park! Okay, okay, that’s only really three but that’s a little different, for what it’s worth. And a few of those games were seeing the Padres as a AAA team at San Diego Stadium.
Only ever the White Sox. With my Dad at old Comiskey, now at the new place. The new place was called Comiskey when it opened, and has changed names yet again, so Comiskey is good enough for me.
Cub fans: My Grandpa and my Dad called the Sox “The Good Guys”, and conditioned me to hate the Cubs, I couldn’t tell you why. I’m trying to let that go, and I’m making progress. I have been outside Wrigley, for example, when Hawkwind was playing at the Cubby Bear. I may make it in for a game yet. Baby steps.
Okay, okay, that’s only really three but that’s a little different, for what it’s worth. And a few of those games were seeing the Padres as a AAA team at San Diego Stadium.