Number of MLB stadium you've seen

The home plate from Forbes Field is still in its original location, which is now inside one of the University of Pittsburgh's academic buildings. Part of the outfield wall is also preserved outside next to a parking lot.

I visited the site of Kansas City Municipal Stadium, where the Monarchs, early Royals and early Chiefs played, when I was in KC last summer. They had a marker and some signage, but it has not been maintained and was badly faded, unfortunately.

 

While Moses was an ass, one of the reasons (or excuses) was he didn't want to give O'Malley the Brooklyn site because it was private property and he didn't feel eminent domain should be used to benefit a private business. Unlike today, when we've seen people lose houses and businesses because an owner wants their site for a new taxpayer-funded stadium.

Giants would have moved, but more likely to Minnesota, where they had a minor league team, and plus NL owners were concerned about travel costs to the West Coast with only one team there. This also means the Twins wouldn't have existed, and the Senatorz would have either stayed in Washington or moved elsewhere.

Plus, the first MLB team out West may well have been the Los Angeles Browns, who were set to be approved by the AL owners to move on December 8, 1941. We know what happened the day before.

 

Moses had used Title 1 funds on similar projects to what O'Malley wanted elsewhere in the city. There just had to be some aspect of public good associated with slum-clearance projects, and certainly a new stadium for the Dodgers as a small part of the project would have fit the bill.

Moses did not like O'Malley. He wanted the Flushing Meadow site developed. He stonewalled every Brooklyn location suggested by O'Malley, John Cashmore, Abe Stark, Robert Wagner or other public officials associated with the borough, and personally submarined the three-member commission set up to find a solution to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn..

The Giants had cooled on Minneapolis by 1956-57. They would have needed to buy the territorial rights to St. Paul from Boston and did not have the funds. And at some point, MSP was going to get a major-league team, either through expansion or relocation. It lucked out in getting the old Senators at a time when that team had young talent ready to blossom, like Killebrew, Jim Kaat, Jim Allison, etc.

 

If the Dodgers had put a stadium at Atlantic Ave, I wonder where the Nets would be today?

 

Teaneck or Commack. Back to their roots.

 

Maybe. I was thinking Louisville or KC.

 

I went to college near Pittsburgh and I really regret not going to PNC. I only ever went to one sporting event in the city--at the Igloo. I grew up near Philly and my first game was at the very uncool Vet.

 

I want to see PNC really badly. It might be the only park of the new yards that I'll admit to being better than AT&T.

The best seats I had at AT&T were upperdeck behind home plate. You see the action and a great view of the Bay. Make sure you take a walk around the park when you get in and make sure you get some garlic fries.

 

Dodger Stadium is really nice, but the parking is a disaster. They don't open the lots until 2 hours before first pitch, so it's a traffic jam on the side of the hill waiting for them to open the gates. Then when they do open the gates, it's the Indy 500 to get a good spot.

Really regret I haven't been to AT&T Park yet. Of those I've been to, PNC & Coors are the most picturesque. I appreciate the history of Wrigley & Fenway, but they're not the most comfortable places to see a game.

 

I've said this before here, but there are about 25,000 seats at Fenway that are the best places around to watch a ballgame and another 10,000 that are the worst. Also, if you're of above average height or breadth, there are too many seats where you'll suffer physically.
The main plus besides picturesqueness is the good public transit access. Even if you're coming from way out of town, you can park at one of the subway end point stations in the burbs and take the T from there.

 

That’s when the T cooperates, which is less and less frequently.

-Fenway
-Yankee Stadium II
-Skydome
-Camden Yards
-Progressive/the Jake
-Safeco
-Citi Field
-Nats Park
-RFK
-Citizens Bank Park
-the Vet
-Olympic Stadium (after the Expos left, during one of the Blue Jay exhibitions)
-Turner Field
-PNC

 

Stadiums where I have seen a game:
Dodger Stadium
Anaheim Stadium
Jack Murphy Stadium
Kingdome
Coors Field
Kauffman Stadium
Busch Stadium (former)
Wrigley Field
New Comiskey
Tiger Stadium
Riverfront Stadium
The Vet
Camden Yards
Yankee Stadium (new)
Fenway Park

Due to a job relocation, I expect to cross Miller Park and Target Field off the list this year.

I have also toured Pac Bell Park (or whatever San Fran is called now).