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Number of MLB stadium you've seen

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by RonClements, Apr 12, 2018.

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  1. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    Had less energy than most hockey arenas when I 've been to, would think Huggy would agree. That was 03 and we sat in the right-center field seats for a Friday night game vs the Yankees.
    It was quiet, the dome with the catwalks was odd. The Saturday and Sunday games we sat up the right-field line right by the Rays bullpen. Got tickets from John Flaherty, at the time my buddy had coached his cousin in hs and the dad called Flaherty and got four of his tickets. It was about the third week in June and the attendance was 32k, guy we talked to who had season tix said it was the first crowd over 30 since Opening Day.

    Other stadiums
    Yankee old and new
    Shea and Citi Field
    Olympic
    Exhibtion (Went during vacation as a kid early 80s, was picture day, very cool, got a pic on the field with Jim Clancy. My dad asked him about
    playing minor league ball in Jersey City. There couldn't have been 200 kids on the field, as a Yankee fan was thinking how cool it was to
    have a picture day with players and how could there not be more kids there).

    New Comiskey or whatever it was called in 98 or 99
    San Fran in 07, think it was Pac Bell then
    Fenway Park
     
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  2. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Fenway
    Rogers Centre
    Camden Yards
    Yankee Stadium (old)
    RFK
    Comiskey (new)
    Kauffman
     
  3. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    I liked the Trop because it used to be a 20-minute drive, there was always plenty of parking and I never had to worry about being too hot, too cold or too wet. I could just sit back and watch baseball (or a reasonable facsimile).
     
  4. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Fenway
    Yankee Stadium (old)
    Shea Stadium
    Skydome
    Camden Yards
    Nats Park
    Wrigley
    Comiskey (new).
     
  5. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    Been inside, or seen games at:
    Astrodome
    Turnpike/Arlington Stadium
    Oakland Coliseum
    Old Candlestick
    Enron/Minute Maid
    Fulton County
    Turner Field (pre-baseball!)
    Metrodome
     
  6. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I have been to all three Yankee Stadiums, including the last year of the original in 1973.
    Current parks:
    Fenway Park
    Wrigley Field
    Anaheim
    Safeco
    new Busch
    new White Sox (have no idea what it's called now)
    Camden Yards
    Minute Maid
    The Trop
    Rogers Centre
    Whatever they're calling the Indians ballpark, it was Jacobs Field when I went.
    Oakland Coliseum
    Dodger Stadium
    Defunct parks.
    Old Comiskey
    Almost all the dual use atrocities of the '70s. The Vet, Metrodome, Three Rivers, Riverfront, old Busch, Kingdome, Astrodome and Fulton County.
    Turner Field, while we're on the subject of Atlanta.
    Memorial Stadium, Baltimore
    Memorial Stadium, Cleveland
    Shea Stadium
    Connie Mack Stadium (nee Shibe Park) in Philadelphia
    Griffith Stadium, Washington
    Candlestick Park
    Tiger Stadium
    The old Rangers field in Arlington, worst hovel of them all.
    These are all parks where I actually saw baseball games. I am so very, very, very old.
     
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  7. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    From east to west:

    Fenway
    Wrigley
    Commiskey
    Busch II
    Busch III
    Royals
    Rockies
    Angels
    Giants
    Mariners
     
  8. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Coors
    new Philly
    PacBell
    Anaheim
    Oakland
    old Vet Stadium
    Three Rivers
    Dodger stadium
    old Cleveland

    I might be missing one or two.
    Funny, I grew up in NJ and a Yankee fan (although we lived much, much closer to Philly), but I've never been to an NYC baseball stadium.
     
  9. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    I prefer to think of it as "teams I have seen at home" rather than individual parks, because I have seen the Yankees and Mets play at home, but not in their current parks.

    I'm up to 22 teams I've seen at home (current park unless noted):

    NL East (5/5): Braves (current park, but also at Fulton County and Turner), Mets (at Shea), Nationals, Marlins, Phillies
    AL East (5/5): Red Sox, Yankees (at Yankee Stadium II), Rays, Orioles, Blue Jays
    NL Central (5/5): Cardinals, Cubs, Pirates, Reds, Brewers
    AL Central (3/5): White Sox, Royals, Tigers
    NL West (2/5): Dodgers, Rockies
    AL West (2/5): Astros, Rangers

    I have seen all 30 teams play in person at least once, plus the Expos a few times. Also saw the Rays in Houston when they were the Devil Rays.

    Have not been to Cleveland, Minnesota, Anaheim, Seattle, Oakland, Arizona, San Diego or San Francisco.

    Need to make a West Coast swing at some point. Was planning on hitting either Cleveland or Minnesota this summer, but the wife will be extremely pregnant by then, so it's not going to happen.
     
  10. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Was Exhibition as bad as they say?
     
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  11. lakefront

    lakefront Well-Known Member

    Yankee old
    Shea old
    Fenway
    Expos--forgot the name.
     
  12. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

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