Baseball Trekking

[billroper]

fleetfootmike mentioned his quest to visit all 30 Major League Baseball parks. This caused me to count on my fingers to figure out how many parks I'd been in.

That would be twenty two, if I've not forgotten any.

Boston: Fenway Park
Baltimore: Camden Yards
Montreal: Olympic Stadium
Toronto: The Skydome
Cleveland: Jacobs Field (but no game, as it was delayed by rain until we had to leave)
Detroit: Tiger Stadium
Milwaukee: County Stadium, Miller Park
Minneapolis: The Metrodome
Chicago: Wrigley Field, Comiskey Park, U.S. Cellular Field (yuk!)
St. Louis: Busch Stadium I, Busch Stadium II
Denver: Coors Field
Arlington: The Ballpark at Arlington
Phoenix: Bank One Ballpark
Los Angeles: Dodger Stadium, Anaheim Stadium
San Francisco: Pacific Bell Park, The Coliseum
Seattle: The Kingdome

I would have picked up PNC Park in Pittsburgh in 2001, but work asked very nicely for me to take fewer vacation days across Worldcon, so we punted those tickets. The company paid for them, at least, as well as airfare and shipping of product to the Dealers' Room at MilPhil.

Comments

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

And how many of them are still ACTIVE MLB parks. Metrodome, Kingdome, Olympic for three aren't... :D

[billroper]

Also not active: Comiskey Park I, County Stadium, Busch Stadium I, Busch Stadium II, Tiger Stadium.

So that would be eight. Six of which are very flat, as I recall.

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

So you never made Exhibition Stadium in the Jays' early years. Just as well really. :-)

[andpuff.livejournal.com]

I loved Exhibition Stadium! The ex had access to tickets just up from 1st base and I know we sat through at least two snow storms. When we couldn't get those, we used to sit in the Zoo and pretend to be Tigers fans for safety whenever Detroit was in town and Yankees fans when NY was playing.

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

I was probably there a dozen times per year while it was in use for baseball. I enjoyed a lot of the games but never had any love for the venue.

I sat in snow for the 2nd game of 1977 and the only good thing about the weather was that it was better than it had been for the opener. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ExhibitionStadium.jpg

[ericcoleman]

Wrigley, 3 Rivers Stadium and Forbes Field ... two of which no longer exist.

[madfilkentist]

My list is easy: Fenway Park. (The userpic is on topic, if visual puns are allowed.)

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Chicago: Wrigley Field, Comiskey Park*
Cincinnati: Riverfront Stadium*, Great American Ballpark
Cleveland: Cleveland Municipal Stadium*
Milwaukee: County Stadium*
Pittsburgh: Three Rivers Stadium*
St. Louis: Busch Stadium I*

*No longer in use

So me going to a ballpark seems to be on par with hotels no longer hosting Chicago cons (although one currently hosting a Chicago con is facing foreclosure).

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

Not all that surprising since I'm not a Baseball fan, so my count is 2, both from 1984

Kansas City (Royal Stadium) - Apparently still in use
San Diego (Jack Murphy Stadium, now known as Qualcomm Stadium) - no longer used for baseball.

When I was at Jack Murphy Stadium - twice in the same weekend - it was configured for football, and was after the Padres lost the World Series there that year.

I've walked around the outside of both Olympic Stadium in Montreal and The Skydome, but not entered either. And Olympic Stadium was last year, after The Expos had become the latest incarnation of The Senators.

If The Rockies played any pre-Coors field seasons at Mile High Stadium, I was in it also - but before The Rockies existed, and again configured for either football (1987) or a Drum Corps International competition (1980). FWIW that incarnation of Mile High Stadium is also gone.

I've been in two minor league parks: Kane County Stadium (my only other professional baseball game) and The Albuquerque Sports Stadium (now extensively remodeled into Isotopes Park).

[laurel-potter.livejournal.com]

Just Tiger Statium, but I think I was there twice. I've driven past it a lot.

Hmmm, baseball season, I need to get my Tiger's icon out.

[drawshad.livejournal.com]

Cleveland: Jacobs Field (front row seats!)
Kansas City: Kaufmann Stadium
Chicago: Wrigley (thanks so much!)
Milwaukee: Miller Park

I would love to visit them all... I have a long way to go!