# What MLB stadiums, present and past, have you been to? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 8, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mlb-stadiums-present-and-past-have-you-been-to/634112 "2012-09-08T18:38:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mlb-stadiums-present-and-past-have-you-been-to/634112/41 "2012-09-11T14:43:25Z")
Current: Wrigley Field Turner Field Fenway Park (for a tour - haven’t seen a game) Past Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Astrodome Municipal Stadium (Cleveland - The Mistake By The Lake) ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mlb-stadiums-present-and-past-have-you-been-to/634112/42 "2012-09-11T15:58:19Z")
Current: Fenway Park Camden Yards Rogers Centre (SkyDome at the time) Safeco Field Wrigley Field Past: Old Yankee Stadium Shea Stadium Veteran’s Stadium Qualcomm Stadium RFK Stadium Camden Yards is probably my favorite, but there’s definitely bias there, as I went to college in B’more and have been there far more times than any of the others. Safeco and Wrigley were both great. The others were all kind of crappy in one way or another; Fenway is probably fourth, but even as a Sox fan, there’s so much I hate about going to games there. I clearly need to make a trip to NYC while I’m still relatively close and hit the two new stadiums there, to make my list a little more respectable. ---
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\*\*Past \*\*Seattle Kingdome **Current** Wrigley Field - Chicago Cellular Field - Chicago Safeco Field - Seattle Miller Park - Milwaukee ---
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Old: Comiskey Tiger Stadium Yankee Stadium Riverfront (Cincy) Cleveland Municipal Busch Current: Comerica Wrigley US Cellular Fenway Dodger Stadium Anaheim Stadium (about 20 years ago, nothing like it is now) Camden Yards PNC Park Great American Progressive (Jacob’s Field) Turner Field ---
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Of the parks I’ve been to [(see post #37)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15475138#post15475138), the nicest ones are AT&T Park (SF Giants) first, followed by PNC Park (Pirates). I haven’t been to Miller Park (Brewers) yet and I hear that is nice. But nothing beats AT&T. The most classic one is Fenway. ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mlb-stadiums-present-and-past-have-you-been-to/634112/46 "2012-09-13T15:46:23Z")
Current, for an MLB game: Dodger Stadium Angel Stadium of Anaheim Former, for an MLB game: Arlington Stadium Houston Astrodome Kingdome (apparently officially named _King County Multipurpose Domed Stadium_) Current, for some other purpose: Rangers Ballpark in Arlington Former, for some other purpose: Qualcomm Stadium Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (home of the Dodgers from 1958-1961) ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mlb-stadiums-present-and-past-have-you-been-to/634112/47 "2012-09-13T15:47:18Z")
Current: Oakland Coliseum Dodger Stadium Angels Stadium Shea Stadium Past: Candlestick Park Qualcomm Stadium I have also been to the outside of Camden Yards, Yankee Stadium (the current one), and Fenway Park, but didn’t actually see games played there. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mlb-stadiums-present-and-past-have-you-been-to/634112/48 "2012-09-13T16:05:15Z")
Current: Nats Park Camden Yards (O’s) Fenway Park Dodger Stadium Past: RFK (Senators, Nats) Memorial Stadium (O’s) Yankee Stadium Che Stadium (Mets) Not sure: Took in a Braves game in Atlanta in 2001. Comments: 1. I love Nats Park. Really great place to watch a ballgame. 2. I thought the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore was great. I’m sure Camden Yards is better in a lot of ways, but the couple times I’ve been there (and this was in the late '90s before the O’s descended into awfulness), the crowd just didn’t seem to be into it the way the Memorial Stadium fans used to be. I’d often go there [ETA: Memorial Stadium, that is] by myself, and get into great, knowledgeable baseball conversations with total strangers sitting nearby; maybe that happens nowadays at Camden Yards, but I was just there at the wrong time, or on the wrong days. 3. I haven’t been to Fenway since the 1980s, but it was a great place to watch a ballgame then. I’ve been in a few different vantage points in the ballpark, and they’ve all been good. Yes, I know, there are some obstructed-view seats; do your homework before buying. ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mlb-stadiums-present-and-past-have-you-been-to/634112/49 "2012-09-13T16:39:56Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Miller Park - I like to think of it as Wrigley North, not because it shares any of it’s charms but because it houses almost as many Cubs fans for 8-10 games a year. Never made it to old County Stadium but by all accounts this is a huge improvement. The location kinda sucks, it’s easy to drive to but it lives in the middle of a cloverleaf, so the charm factor is pretty much nil. The food is solid, and the sightlines are good. It’s infected with a insane amount of marketing, gimmicks and distractions from baseball though. The best part about Miller Park is the NFL style tailgating that occurs every game, never seen that at a baseball game before. I’m glad to read this. I can’t stand Miller Park (the Millerdome, since the roof is closed far more often than necessary). It’s not that it’s a bad stadum per se, just that it’s a complete embarrassment compared to most of the other stadiums built in the recent boom. Its exteriro is beyond ugly once you’re more than 50’ away. Watching a game is nothing special (ooh, seats are wider than at County Stadium, just like at every other new stadium), and it so often seems to take a backseat to the gimmic of the minute. I recently went to games in Minnesota and Colorado, and of course there were ads and contests, but they didn’t seem to be so constant and overbearing there. The absolute worst part, though, is that no matter where you’re sitting, you feel like you’re inside, even with the roof open. When it’s 70° and sunny, you shouldn’t feel like you’re in a warehouse watching the game, but that’s the Millerdome experience. It was so great to get truly outdoor baseball at Target and Coors Fields. I won’t bother getting into the funding of the stadium or the argument of whether it should have been built downtown or where County Stadium was located. Last thing - I watched Major League a couple weeks ago, and the baseball scenes for that were filmed at County Stadium. Yes, the stadium was old and needed replacing or major renovations. But once you were out of the concourse and in the seats, it was just a great place to watch a game. I wish they’d renovated instead of replaced it. ---
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> [@Wheelz](#): > > Current: > > All of them except the new Miami Marlins stadium (Hope to get there next year!) > > Past: > > Memorial Stadium (Orioles) > Old Yankee Stadium (Yankees) > Old Comiskey Park (White Sox) > Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians) > Tiger Stadium (Tigers) > HHH Metrodome (Twins) > Kingdome (Mariners) > Arlington Stadium (Rangers) > Fulton County Stadium (Braves) > Pro Player Stadium (Marlins) > Shea Stadium (Mets) > Veterans Stadium (Phillies) > Olympic Stadium (Expos) > Riverfront Stadium (Reds) > Astrodome (Astros) > County Stadium (Brewers) > 3 Rivers Stadium (Pirates) > Old Busch Stadium (Cardinals) > Jack Murphy Stadium (San Diego) > Candlestick Park (Giants) > > …For a grand total of 49. I’ll be impressed if anybody here can beat that. 🙂 Dude, how old are you?! 😃 Seriously, that’s quite the collection. Not to hijack this thread, but do you collect anything from the stadiums? I collect a souvenir baseball and the team’s media guide. I have the baseballs in a nice display case, and the media guides on a book shelf. I’ve collected SF Giants media guides for every year since 1996. ---
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> [@mkecane](#): > > The absolute worst part, though, is that no matter where you’re sitting, you feel like you’re inside, even with the roof open. Interesting comment. I visited the Rogers Centre once, earlier this season. Now that you mention that and now that I reflect back, with the roof open it felt like I was indoors. ---
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> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > Current: > Shea Stadium The Mets played their last game at Shea Stadium in 2008, and the place has been demolished. They now play at Citi Field, next to where Shea used to be. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mlb-stadiums-present-and-past-have-you-been-to/634112/53 "2012-09-13T18:29:52Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > Dude, how old are you?! 😃 > > Seriously, that’s quite the collection. Not to hijack this thread, but do you collect anything from the stadiums? I collect a souvenir baseball and the team’s media guide. I have the baseballs in a nice display case, and the media guides on a book shelf. I’ve collected SF Giants media guides for every year since 1996. Still a bit shy of the half-century mark. 😉 In 1989, a friend and I decided to take a road trip from Chicago to Boston because we both wanted to see Fenway. While planning, we figured we might as well make a few other stops along the way, and ended up with Fenway, Memorial Stadium, Veterans Stadium, and Tiger Stadium under our belts. We had so much fun we decided to do it again the next year, and we haven’t missed a year since. Over the years we’ve been to 49 Major League and 132 Minor League parks. I do have a cap from every Major League park I’ve visited. Used to have them on a wall in my old apartment, but that went away when I got married. One of these days I plan to photograph myself wearing each one and post them all somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mlb-stadiums-present-and-past-have-you-been-to/634112/54 "2012-09-13T18:34:20Z")
Past: Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) Cleveland’s Mistake on the Lake (Cleveland) RFK (Washington DC) Shea Stadium (New York Mets) Qualcomm (San Diego) Anaheim Stadium (Anaheim) Milwaukee County Stadium (Milwaukee) Tiger Stadium (Detroit) Current: Jacobs Field (Cleveland) Nationals Park (Washington DC) PNC Field (Pittsburgh) Fenway (Boston) Miller Field (Milwaukee) Turner Field (Atlanta) Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs) New Comiskey/whatever-the-hell-they-call-it-now (Chicago White Sox) Great American Ballpark (Cincinnati) I think that’s it. Next year I may add Petco (SD) or Dodgers Stadium or KC. ---
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:smack: forgot Camden Yards, which is a great place to see a game. ---
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My parents took me to see the Pirates at Three Rivers once, when I was a kid. I’ve also been IN the Metrodome in Minneapolis, but not for a game. ---
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**Current** Citizens Bank Park Oriole Park at Camden Yards Miller Park Rogers Centre PNC Park AT&T Park Nationals Park Coors Field **Past** Veterans Stadium RFK Stadium Pretty much all the parks outside of Philadelphia (with the exception of a few games in Baltimore) were to see the Phillies play. For the past seven or eight years, I’ve tried to attend one Phillies road series per season. Wasn’t able to make it to any this season, but could be doing Comerica Park next summer. ---
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Dodger Stadium Angels Stadium (including The Big A) Riverfront Coliseum (former home of the Reds) I’m out. ---
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Past; Astrodome Old Cominskey Park Kingdome Current: Kauffman Stadium Tiger Stadium(or has it been replaced?) ---
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> [@Wheelz](#): > > Still a bit shy of the half-century mark. 😉 > > In 1989, a friend and I decided to take a road trip from Chicago to Boston because we both wanted to see Fenway. While planning, we figured we might as well make a few other stops along the way, and ended up with Fenway, Memorial Stadium, Veterans Stadium, and Tiger Stadium under our belts. > > We had so much fun we decided to do it again the next year, and we haven’t missed a year since. Over the years we’ve been to 49 Major League and 132 Minor League parks. > > I do have a cap from every Major League park I’ve visited. Used to have them on a wall in my old apartment, but that went away when I got married. One of these days I plan to photograph myself wearing each one and post them all somewhere… Is MCcoy one of the minor league parks you’ve seen? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mlb-stadiums-present-and-past-have-you-been-to/634112.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mlb-stadiums-present-and-past-have-you-been-to/634112.md?page=4)