Gonna try and revive this as I loved it on the previous site.

What is your favorite ball park and why? It can be majors or minors.


Mine is Camden Yards. I've only been to a few parks(5 to be exact) but this one is my favorite. I love the atmosphere. I recently took at trip and hit Philly, Baltimore and DC. All relatively new stadiums. Baltimore is the only one that I walked into and kind of had my breath taken away. Just such a beautiful park.

Only been to a few. Old Anaheim Stadium was the first, great memories. Wrigley was a great experience also. But my fave is Bank One Ballpark (guess it's Chase now). I lived there for the first five years of the D-Bax, just a great place to watch a game, and what a great atmosphere. Also the club had an allotment of dollar seats which me and my buds took advantage of. Saw several games there the year they won the WS, lots of fun...

Only been to a few major-league stadiums as well (Camden, Yankee, Shea, Fenway, Dodger) and would have to agree with BC that Camden is just gorgeous. The atmosphere both inside and outside the stadium are great. The only other time I've really had my breathe taken away at a game was in Boston. The fans and old-time feel of the stadium are truly great in Beantown and an experience that everyone should have. Either get seats on the Green Monster or in the outfield.

To step outside of the "ball park" box, I also really like Gillette Stadium (although I hate the Pats) and it's right up there in my favorite stadiums I've been to. The current Giants Stadium is a dump and boring but I'm more than pumped about the new construction. I'll be checking up on it later today as I'm headed over to the Red Bull/Dallas soccer game at the Meadowlands tonight.

The new Prudential Center in Newark, NJ for the Devils is also a phenomenal arena. MSG is great for it's history but the on-court product is AWFUL! The IZOD Center is just about as plain-jane as it gets and has given the Nets all the reason in the world to move on to Brooklyn.

fulton county stadium. it was the old school home of the braves until turner field took its place. it was plain but spacious. you could sit up top in the cheap seats for a couple of dollars or spring for 9 bucks and sit club level. i used to go there to watch my favorite brave, dale murphy. turner field packs people in like sardines and relies on glitz and effects to try to keep the online generation interested in the game. the $7.50 beer and the $6 hot dogs are nowhere near as good as the old draft beer and polish sausages at fulton county. (is that sentimentality?)

Wrigley Field
Yankee Stadium
Fenway Park

In that order, for the history/nostalgia, not that I've been to any of them. It
is ridiculous to think that this is the last year for Yankee Stadium. The Steinbrenners absolutely suck - no class jerks.

I've only been to Wrigley, Old Comiskey, US Cellular, Old Tiger Stadium, Shea, and Fenway. Shea is by far the worst. I'm biased but I'll go with Wrigley as my favorite.

Can't say I've been to a lot - Anaheim/Angel Stadium, Dodger Stadium, Oakland's stadium (whatever they're calling it now), Jack Murphy Stadium (now Qualcomm) and Petco Park. I prefer going to games at Angel Stadium, since the Angels are my team, but Petco is by far the nicest stadium - I've sat all over the stadium and never felt like I had a bad seat. Too bad the team is terrible and the tickets and concessions are way overpriced.

gotta say Wrigley

been to Wrigley twice, Fenway once, old Comiskey, Candlestick (awful but cool in its own way), old Fulton Co. Stadium/Turner Field for at least 100 Braves games since the late 80s in addition to many spring training sites in Florida in the 70s, some of which don't exist anymore (McKechnie in Bradenton, spring home of the Pirates, is my fave). Turner Field just tries too hard. For the most pure experience, Wrigley wins a close battle w/Fenway in my book.

Nothing can beat being at Fulton Co. as a college student or 20-something w/ lots of room to roam & having to chase a foul ball into the empty seats for a souvenir b/c there were so few people there. Good times. As were every year in the early 90s 'til winning the series versus Cleveland in '95. I was lucky enough to be at that game & lots of the early 90s milestones. I actually bought a 20-game season ticket package in '91 w/the first ever tax return I received (section 112, row 7, seats 109 & 110) and ended up being there for some exciting games & the 2nd to last home game when they clinched the old NL West. Priceless. But those memories are much more about the good times & the company than the stadium. So yes, dna, sentimentality rules. My favorite quote about old FCS was in Sports Illustrated I think, about a year before they closed it. It made the list of one of the five worst parks in the majors & included this "...muggy and buggy and smells like a urinal."

Parks in which I'd like to see a game, in no particular order: Camden, PETCO, whatever they're calling where the Giants play, Chase, Dodger Stadium, Yankee stadium this year (prob not going to make it unless the Yanks make the playoffs - won't be in NY this year 'til October).

Been to a bunch
Rogers Centre - very cool park, get a hotel room and watch from there, it's a hoot.
Olympic stadium, when the Expos were there - what a dump!
Shea - another dump
Yankee stadium - a classic, though it's ready for replacement
PNC - Maybe the nicest of them all, too bad the team sucks
Jacobs - Another beauty of a ballpark
Citizens - Great place to watch a game - especially from the bridge in right center
Fenway - the most uncomfortable seats I have ever sat in. Love the atmosphere, hate the seats with a passion

After all that it's a tossup between PNC in Pittsburgh and Rogers Center.