I did this in another thread and have some updates:
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. Every bit as charming as you’ve been told.
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 had 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.
5 - Angels Stadium - 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.