Number of MLB stadium you've seen

My one trip to a Sox game came in 2006, and there was literally nothing but parking lots around the ballpark. It was get off the train, go to the game, get back on the train. They'd even torn down the Robert Taylor Homes by then, so there weren't even very many locals lurking.

 

--County Stadium (Milwaukee)
--Busch Stadium (old)
—New Comiskey Park
--Royals Stadium
--Astrodome
--Joe Robbie Stadium
--Candlestick Park
--Oakland Coliseum
—Wrigley Field
--Bank One Ballpark (Diamondbacks)
--AT&T Park
—Busch Stadium (new)
—Miller Park
—Fenway Park

Still haven’t been to Dodger Stadium (or Angels) despite 20+ trips to LA. Checking those off soon though.

 

I thought I read or heard somewhere that when they tore down the old old Busch Stadium (nee Sportsman's Park) in St. Louis that they left the home plate in place and it was/is still in use for Little League games.

 

Chronologically:

• Cleveland Municipal (1992)
• Tiger Stadium (1994)
• "Pro Player" *for the Orange Bowl (2004)
• Nationals Park (2010)
• AT&T Park (2015)
• Kauffman Stadium (2013 - as recently as tonight)

Spring Training:

• Space Coast Stadium (Viera, Florida)

Minor League/prominent college

• Dodgertown for A ball in Vero Beach
• The Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville (Double A, plus lots of college)
• Community America Ballpark (independent league; Kansas City, Kan.)
• Dick Howser Stadium (Florida State)
• Baum Stadium (Arkansas)
• TD Ameritrade Park (CWS)
• USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium (WCWS)

 

Mile High Stadium
Coors Field
Riverfront Stadium
Kauffman
Chase Field
Been to the museum in Great American Ballpark but not for a game
Going to a concert at Safeco this summer

Wish I had many more on this list.

 

Current

Sun Trust Park
AT&T Park
Camden Yards
Busch Stadium
Wrigley Field
Tropicana Field
Kauffman Stadium
U.S Cellular

RIP

Yankee Stadium
Tiger Stadium
Comiskey Park
Fulton County Stadium
Turner Field
Busch Stadium
Veterans Stadium

I do think my favorite was Comiskey Park: the huge expanse of grandstand seats, the arches--I don't know why, but it just felt like this was a place that Ruth and Gehrig had played in.

Fenway has been the top of the list for ones I would like to go to, but thinking that may be supplanted by a visit to Chavez Ravine.

 

Fulton County Stadium (older Braves stadium)
Turner Field (old Braves stadium)
SunTrust Park (current Braves stadium)
Fenway Park
Wrigley Field
Old Yankee Stadium
Citi Field
Camden Yards
Coors Field
Busch Stadium
RFK Stadium
Nationals Park

Sidenote: I can't believe my team has had three different stadiums in my life, and I'm not even that old compared to some of you geezers.

 

I have a buddy who has been to more than 50 MLB stadiums and 50+ NHL arenas.

He's late 6os and a lifetime bachelor who loves to travel to ballparks/arenas. I'm pretty sure he had all active buildings at one time.

 

Traveled the NL in the early '80s, so all of those. Plus, Anaheim, Cleveland, Yankee Stadium, Oakland. Saw Minnesota from the outside in the offseason.

 

My son went to Dodger Stadium several weeks ago. He said it was beautiful. I've never been there. Hard to believe it is the third-oldest ballpark in MLB. Had Robert Moses not been such an obstinate, power-hungry asshole, O'Malley would have built that park, or something quite like it, at the Flatbush Avenue/Atlantic Avenue area of Brooklyn, the first MLB team in LA would have been called the Angels (the transplanted original Senators, or some other existing franchise) and the New York Mets would have never existed.

 

I went to Dodger Stadium on a Sunday afternoon in July a few years back and it was stunning...amazing to look into the outfield and not see condos, office towers etc., probably looks much the way it did the day it opened.

 

They have maintained it nicely. The area behind home plate where the rich-guy seats are has changed considerably since the 60s-70s, when there were no seats and that scout with the hat used to stand back there with a radar gun.

O'Malley may be still reviled in Brooklyn, but the more the facts are revealed over time by deeper research he really had no choice. He didn't want to move to Queens, he had no options in Brooklyn because Moses stopped him at every turn.

The Giants had no options either; the Polo Grounds was a dump, Moses had no interest in helping them build in Manhattan, he wanted the Dodgers in Flushing Meadow, not the Giants, and they were the least-popular team in NYC by a considerable margin and had been for decades. They were the obvious odd-man out. They got hornswaggled into a terrible stadium in SF because Stoneham wasn't anywhere near as smart, or devious, as O'Malley.