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Ballparks that no longer stand - Which have you been too?
I was talking to a NET54-er and he has been to an amazing list of ballparks in general and it got me thinking about parks I have been to that no longer exist, just curious if we have any old timers here who have been to others.
I saw games at: -County Stadium Milwaukee -Three Rivers in Pitt -Riverfront - Cincy - saw Bench, Foster and Perez all hit home runs and I want to say they went back to back to back - was a die hard Big Red Machine fan so that was awesome. -Old Comiskey Park - White Sox, saw many games there - miss the trofts : ) |
Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.
Tiger Stadium. Yankee Stadium. |
Exhibition Stadium in Toronto
Yankee Stadium Tiger Stadium Kingdome |
Tiger stadium:loved it
Yankee stadium: meh Milwaukee : loved it Forgot Shea. Yeah. |
1. My beloved Shea Stadium
2. Enemy territory Yankee Stadium 3. Memorial Stadium Baltimore 4. Veterans Stadium Philadelphia 5. Riverfront Stadium Cincinnati |
Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego
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Some others
Arlington Stadium Astrodome (although I don't think it has been torn down yet) Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Old Busch Stadium |
Metrodome in Minneapolis. I really miss that place. It was the closest place for me to watch a game, a short 600 mile round trip. I could buy tickets to any game and I knew it was going to get played and it would the 70 degrees and beautiful.
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Three Rivers
Veterans Yankee Shea Tom C |
Arlington
Busch Astrodome Ray Winder Field-Little Rock Tim McCarver- Memphis |
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Comiskey Park
Tiger Stadium Sportsman Park Busch Memorial Stadium Crosley Field Riverfront Stadium Astrodome |
Candlestick Park
Anaheim Stadium (before all of the remodels) Jack Murphy Stadium (The Murph) The Kingdome The Astrodome (Went to last game and many others) Jarry Park The Ballpark at Arlington (Went to last game and many others) Milwaukee County Stadium Bush Stadium I Bush Memorial Stadium Tiger Stadium (Went to last game as well as many others) Cleveland Municipal Stadium Yankee Stadium Shea Stadium Fulton County Stadium (Went to last game and others) Joe Robbie Stadium RFK Stadium Lucas County Stadium (Former home of the Toledo Mud Hens) Also: Chicago Stadium (Bulls and Blackhawks) Boston Garden |
I was at the final game for these stadiums...
Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta) Tiger Stadium (Detroit) Yankee Stadium (New York) was also at these stadiums before they closed County Stadium (Milwaukee) Riverfromt Stadium (Cincinnati) Veterans Stadium (Philadelphia) Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Cleveland) Shea Stadium (New York) Busch Stadium II (St Louis) |
Polo Grounds
Shea Stadium - was in attendance at last game Yankee Stadium Arlington |
Just Kingdome and Jack Murphy for me.
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Old Comiskey
Cleveland Municipal Astrodome Arlington Riverfront Candlestick Shea Fulton County Veterans Mile High |
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I'm too lazy to figure out which ones no longer stand, but MLB doesn't play there anymore :
Cashman Field Astrodome Fulton County Stadium County Stadium Busch Stadium Olympic Stadium RFK Candlestick Park Cleveland Stadium Joe Robie Pro Player Stad. Kingdome Shea Stadium Old Jack Murphy Stad Three Rivers Stad Arlington Stadium Riverfront Stadium Mile High Stadium Tiger Stadium Metrodome Comiskey Park Old Yankee Stadium Old |
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Yankee Sadium
Shea Connie Mack Stadium Vet Stadium Baltimore Memorial Forbes Field Three Rivers Old Comisky Tiger Stadium Cleveland Municpal Busch AND PLAYED in Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City NJ where the Dodgers played some big league games in the 50's. Don't know if it counts that I played there in college and did not see a game in person. Fred |
Forbes Field & Three Rivers
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Candlestick
Metrodome Milwaukee County I also will throw in: Mile High (though I didn't see the Rockies play there - just the Broncos a couple times) and the old Boston Garden (because I also got to walk out on the parquet.) Oh yeah, McNichols Arena in Denver to see the Avs play. |
Shea Stadium - My beloved Mets
Yankee Stadium - My arch nemesis Joe Robbie/Pro-Player - Who cares about the Marlins!?!?!? |
Three Rivers
Shea Metrodome Good riddance to those three! Yankee Stadium |
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Besides the Metrodome, Crosley Cleveland Municipal Candlestick Riverfront Shea and wasn't Jack Murphy just renamed? :confused: |
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Polo Grounds (Giants and Mets) As I remember the club house was behind CF. When a pitcher got pulled, he did not walk to the dugout but all the way to CF and out through a gate.
The Met in Minneapolis. I recall they had some sort of marker in the LF bleachers where one of Killebrew's HRs landed. Same thing in Memorial Stadium with a marker for a Frank Robinson HR. My all-time favorite for "enter at your own risk" was Municipal Stadium in KC. I sat in the upper deck. They had wooden seats. ALL the seats in the upper deck had splinters. I remember the seat in the row directly in front of me had an up-turned splinter about eight inches in length. If you needed some rectal surgery, it would be your seat of choice. |
Arlington
Astrodome Municipal Stadium KC Sportsman's Park (Old Busch) Busch Memorial Old Comisky Milwaukee County |
Three Stadiums
1. Candlestick Park.......home of my Giants.....attended there with my Grandfather from boyhood in the mid-1960's to 1994 (last game with Grandfather and my son together in 1993 on a trip out to visit him.)
2. Three Rivers Stadium......1992 National League Championship Series Was working in Gettysburg,PA and was able to snag a ticket. Saw future Giant Barry Bonds play in person for the first time and my former high school history student Pitcher Doug Drabek. Then drove to Cooperstown the next day to spend the weekend at the Hall. 3. Astrodome.......moved to Texas in 1972.....saw many a game at the old "coldest foam in the dome". I have a great collection of photos , programs, etc and wonderful memories of these parks. Great thread! Mike |
Old Comiskey
Tiger Stadium Busch Stadium County Stadium |
Shea Stadium
Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Dolphins/Sun Life Stadium there (unless the A's make the World Series) will never be a full 70000 plus stadium again for the world series. I remember 2003 against the Yankees which was a scene that can never be copied again |
Old Comiskey Park
Milwaukee County Stadium Busch Stadium |
Tiger Stadium
Cleveland Municipal Stadium Milwaukee County Stadium Old Yankee Stadium Candlestick Park Veterans Stadium Philadelphia (didn't see a baseball game, just one Army vs. Navy football game) |
Polo Grounds
"Old" Yankee Stadium--1923-1973 version Refurbished Yankee Stadium--first game, and last game Shea Stadium--yeeech! Metrodome |
Kingdome
Yankee Stadium |
County Stadium in Milwaukee
Riverfront in Cincy Old Comiskey in Chicago Old Wrigley Field in Chicago......:) |
Exhibition Stadium
Tiger Stadium |
1. Arlington Stadium - saw a ton of games there, especially in the 1970s prior to the addition of the upper deck behind home plate. Nothing really special about it other than it was hot and you went there to watch BASEBALL, not be entertained with loud music between innings and for batter walk-ups, dot races, etc.
2. Jack Murphy Stadium - still there, but fully enclosed. I got to see games in it when the right field area was open, and the ambience was better for baseball. I thought it one of the nicer post-1965 "donut" or semi-donut stadiums 3. Astrodome - saw a lot of SWC Houston football in there, but only two baseball games, and both were very weird indoors, from the crack of the bat to the lighting, etc. Not my favorite place by any means. 4. LaGrave Field/Ft. Worth - former home of the now defunct Ft. Worth Cats minor league team. Really nice baseball ambience and historical site as well, built on the same footprint as the old LaGrave field, complete with the same dugouts (now field level suites), etc. Shame that the team went bankrupt and the stadium may be bulldozed for the sake of "progress." |
Ballparks
I've seen baseball games at:
Forbes Field - Pittsburgh Three Rivers - Pittsburgh, 1972 All Star Game |
Municipal Stadium - Cleveland
Fulton County Stasium Old Comisky Park Sportsmans Park Old Busch Stadium Astrodome Candlestick Park John |
I have seen games in 47 parks so far - 27 of the 30 current parks (all but Minnesota, Oakland and Tampa) and these 20 older parks listed below. I basically grew up in Old Comiskey and always loved Tiger Stadium too. My favorite current ballparks are Fenway, Philly, San Francisco and Colorado.
Comiskey Park – Chicago Old Busch Stadium – St. Louis Arlington Stadium – Texas Old Yankee Stadium – NYY County Stadium – Milwaukee Candlestick Park – San Fran Jack Murphy Stadium – San Diego Astrodome – Houston Fulton County Stadium – Atlanta Pro Player Stadium – Miami Shea Stadium – NYM Olympic Stadium – Montreal Metrodome – Minnesota Tiger Stadium – Detroit Veterans Stadium – Philly Three Rivers Stadium – Pitt Riverfront Stadium – Cincy RFK Stadium – Washington Cleveland Municipal Stadium Hiram Bithorn Stadium – San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Kingdome listed several times so far (me too) but no Sicks Stadium yet? Or are you all too young for that one?
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County Stadium - Milwaukee
Comiskey Cleveland |
Comiskey Park – Chicago
Arlington Stadium – Texas Astrodome – Houston Fulton County Stadium – Atlanta Tiger Stadium – Detroit Kingdom - Seattle Memorial Stadium - Baltimore I just checked and the first stadium I ever went to, Oakland Coliseum in 1968, is still around ... surprisingly. I've only been to 2 major league games since 1994 (yeah, I'm still boycotting because of the strike - I'll have them on their knees soon :rolleyes:) and they were both in Houston. Tickets were given to me. |
Briggs Stadium, later know as Tiger Stadium
Fulton Stadium in Atlanta Joe |
Korakuen- home of the Yomiyuri Giants in Tokyo
Candlestick I wish I could put the Oakland Coliseum on the list haha |
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