# Long-Gone Ball Parks - Any With Historical Markers, etc.? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 14, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-gone-ball-parks-any-with-historical-markers-etc/449342 "2008-05-14T21:39:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-gone-ball-parks-any-with-historical-markers-etc/449342/21 "2008-05-15T14:53:20Z")
[QUOTE=Philster] Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia is now a parking lot for Citizens Bank Park and the rest of the Philadelphia, PA, USA sports complex, but it is marked with the field layout of the old stadium. [/QUOTE] Why would anyone want to commemorate Veterans Stadium? By far the worst, ugliest stadium I have ever been in. I can still picture the seams and stains on the artifical turf. And the heat bouncing off it that you could feel in the stands. Haven’t been in the new one but it looks nice from 95. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-gone-ball-parks-any-with-historical-markers-etc/449342/22 "2008-05-15T15:40:52Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] There’s a marker in the parking lot of the new Comiskey Park (well, Cellular One Park) that shows where home plate was in the old Comiskey Park. Can’t link to a photo right now, sorry! 🙂 [/QUOTE] [Here ya go, sweetie!](http://www.mlbroadtrip.com/images/photos/june/week3/comiskyparkinghome.jpg) I’ve consumed many many frosty cold beverages at Old Comiskey - I miss it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-gone-ball-parks-any-with-historical-markers-etc/449342/23 "2008-05-15T16:01:43Z")
[QUOTE=Missy2U] [Here ya go, sweetie!](http://www.mlbroadtrip.com/images/photos/june/week3/comiskyparkinghome.jpg) I’ve consumed many many frosty cold beverages at Old Comiskey - I miss it! 😃 [/QUOTE] I couldn’t get your link to work. ☹ [Here, close up is the batters circle and home plate in the lot north of the new park.](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=us+cellular+field&ie=UTF8&ll=41.831503,-87.634318&spn=0.000377,0.000912&t=h&z=20) Zoom back out to see everything. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-gone-ball-parks-any-with-historical-markers-etc/449342/24 "2008-05-15T16:25:42Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] There is a marker in the middle of the Mall of America where the home plate of Metropolitan Stadium used to be. [/QUOTE] In addition to that they have a red stadium chair mounted on the wall in the exact spot it exsisted in the stadium showing where Harmon Killebrew hit his 520 foot home-run (longest hit in the history of the ballpark). ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-gone-ball-parks-any-with-historical-markers-etc/449342/25 "2008-05-15T19:10:55Z")
[QUOTE=Missy2U] [Here ya go, sweetie!](http://www.mlbroadtrip.com/images/photos/june/week3/comiskyparkinghome.jpg) I’ve consumed many many frosty cold beverages at Old Comiskey - I miss it! 😃 [/QUOTE] Now if they could only set Hawk Harrelson in cement somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-gone-ball-parks-any-with-historical-markers-etc/449342/26 "2008-05-15T19:29:14Z")
[Helfaer Field](http://gohlkusmaximus.com/last11months/last11months-Thumbnails/62.jpg) is a little leauge baseball diamond that sits adjacent to Miller Park. It’s infield and home plate sits where it exsisted in the old County Stadium the Milwaukee Brewers and Braves played in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-gone-ball-parks-any-with-historical-markers-etc/449342.md?page=1)