Here is an interesting weblog, dedicated to one man’s tour of all the baseball parks in the country. He determiones that PNC Park, home of my beloved Pirates, is the #1 park in the country.
Of course it is.
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bartelson
He determines that my beloved A’s play in the worst park in baseball.
Of course they do.
Scott
Major league park- minor league payroll…
Don’t mind me- I’m still bitter about Francisco (Forkin’) Cabrera! :o)
Justin Ogren
I think SBC would prolly be in the top 5, never been there since they opened there, NEEDA GO!
Gary Farber
John, it weighed on me after I woke up that I’d been unkind and excessive in a comment I’d made to you the other night. I’d like to find it and modify or withdraw it specifically, but, goshdarn, you are sufficiently prolific I’m not succeeding at that. If you point me at the spot I was a jerk, I’ll withdraw it, with appropirate apologies.
Just saying.
Sometimes you’re wrong, sometimes I’m wrong, but I should never over-characterize your wrongness. best wishes, me.
krj
That’s cool. I wonder where the old Three Rivers would rank. I know it wasn’t elegant in some ways, but the overhead shot of it next to the rivers always looked nice. I didn’t realize PNC had done quite so well for itself. One small tip: pay players.
CadillaqJaq
Sisnce moving back from the west coast I haven’t visited any of the newer parks but as a kid I grew up in Michigan and visited then Detroit’s old green enameled Briggs Stadium, later renamed Tiger Stadium, now retired, decaying and replaced. But some of my best memories as a kid were fashioned there.
Tiger Stadium had a fascination for me in knowing that Ty Cobb, Harry Heilmann, Charley Gehringer and loads of more modern day super stars played there. It’s confines were especially friendly to the fans because of their close proximity to the playng field, and more friendly to the hitters because of the short 325′ right field fence and overhanging 2nd deck “porch” facade with an upper deck roof that many heavy hitters cleared on a good day.
That was inside the stadium. If you ventured back under the stands into the darkened concourses for a hot-dog, that was a sadder story: you were met with a mixture of stale beer, urine and cigar smoke odors wafting through the crowded alleyways.
But maybe that was part of the old appeal. Today’s sanitized ball parks are as much a part of real baseball as multi-million dollar salaries to medicore (or worse) pansy-assed performers.
it ain’t the same… will it ever be? Probably not.
BigFire
Re: CadillaqJaq
Don’t tell me you missed the seat behind the steel beam? One of the many charm of stadiums build in the 1910’s.