All 30 MLB stadiums ranked

[romeo212000]

Really enjoyed Coors field last summer. Kauffman was great too. Rangers park is beautiful, especially from the outside, but is hell for a day game during the summer. Thank god they're getting a new stadium with a roof.

 

[Destroydacre]

Interesting list, persobally I'd have Rogers Centre higher than 27. No surprise to see Oakland's at 30.

I'd always put Tampa's last. At least Oakland plays outdoors on real turf. With no catwalks.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I missed out on old Yankee Stadium. But Tiger Stadium was the best place I've ever been to see a game. Unless you were behind a pole.

I think Fenway was designed for Hobbits.

Like I said maybe it was because of the occasion but it was the first of the "old" stadiums I had ever been to and it was fantastic. I liked Fenway but I wasn't as blown away as I thought I'd be. Also, that was for a Jays game and they lost so maybe I was a little bitter.

Maybe the pee stench at Wrigley will do it for me.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

It's awesome.

Jacobs Field, also cool. People should go there...

What is the deal with Cleveland's attendance? Why aren't people going to the games when the club is playing so well?

 

[Wamu]

Really enjoyed Coors field last summer.

There's really not a bad seat in the house. I go to 3 or 4 Rockies games every year. I'd go to more but Denver's a pain in the ass to get around due to the traffic.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

It's awesome.

Jacobs Field, also cool. People should go there...

The Jake is pretty sweet and I think underrated (particularly in this list). I realize that I may be biased, but on the other hand, most people that go there from other places usually say they didn't realize how nice it is.

They've also made some really cool improvements -- particularly in the right field corner -- over the last couple years. The pic in this list is at least three years old.

The Corner is a two story bar and they've added concessions from a some of the top restaurants in Cleveland (and before you laugh, I'm a foodie and will tell you that Cleveland is a food town, we've got some world class restaurants and chefs).

 

[BigKen]

I've been to the baseball parks in the following cities....

San Francisco
San Diego
Baltimore
Miami
Toronto
Boston

Basically 1/5 of the fields. I love Fenway for all of the quirky stuff. I'm 6'2" 265 lbs and the seats were build for the typical male in 1912 who was 5'6" 140 lbs, Seats suck. Absolutely no parking. If you can find an on street spot within a mile you chance having the tires and wheels removed. If you want to park close by, even at McDonalds, it will cost you $50. $7 for a hot dog and $4 for a coke. Hotdogs are usually cold and the coke is usually warm.

I love Camden Yards. Comfortable and built for a big guy. If you don't want a hot dog and coke for about $7, there are some of the best eateries anywhere available in right center field including Boog Powell's. Being near the Inner Harbor doesn't hurt either.

Petco was great. Had box seats and watched the Pads play the Reds. Seats are great and the hot dogs were 'hot' and the coke was on ice. Cost me $10 for two dogs, a pretzel and a large diet coke.

I sat up near the roof track in Toronto. The weather got nasty and I got to be part of the roof being closed. That was the best part. Food is so-so, seats are ok.

My opinion..........I have a friend who has a pair of $500,000 Yankee Stadium box seats between first base and home plate. He's been a Yankee fan since I met him in the 80's and he travels down from Nashua, NH at least 20 weekends a summer. He never complains. Just being able to cough up the cash for those seats every year is enough to give me a headache, but he promised me that he'd give me a pair of weekend tickets for a lousy team that he didn't want to see..............I may have pissed him off when I asked him if he was talking about the Yankees.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

What is the deal with Cleveland's attendance? Why aren't people going to the games when the club is playing so well?

Ownership really pissed the fan base off when they said "we'll spend money on the team when fans start coming to the park." Infinitely stupid thing to say. Then they traded away back-to-back Cy Young winners as well as fan favorite Victor Martinez (don't talk to me about the reality of those trades as I'm well aware, I'm just acknowledging the reality of the casual fan's reaction to them).

It's also likely one of the smallest markets in MLB. We don't even get all of Ohio - around Toledo, there's a mix of Tigers/Indians fans. To the east, you run into Pirates territory pretty quickly, and a couple hours south you start hitting the Reds.

During the summer, they've been drawing 30-40k on weekends and 15-25k during the week. That's not bad, but they need some sustained winning and some better PR to crank it up.

There's also the fact that we're all poor and live in trailer parks.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

There's really not a bad seat in the house.

Well, there are the two on either side of wherever you're sitting.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Like I said maybe it was because of the occasion but it was the first of the "old" stadiums I had ever been to and it was fantastic. I liked Fenway but I wasn't as blown away as I thought I'd be. Also, that was for a Jays game and they lost so maybe I was a little bitter.

Maybe the pee stench at Wrigley will do it for me.

I dig Fenway. That's where I started to get into baseball when I was at school in Boston. I've seen quite a few games there and half of them were Yankees/Red Sox games, so the atmosphere was always banging. I love the history of it.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Metrodome sucked balls. It was like a giant, inflatable toilet.

I went there for a day game, and it happened to be the most perfect sunny, 70 degree day, and I walked into this giant shit hole with a giant trash bag for the right field wall. Made me want to go to the bathroom and slam my balls in a stall door.

I did get to see Johan Santana pitch, so that was cool. Otherwise, good riddance to that dump.

 

[ill]

Nats Park should be lower. That stadium has zero personality.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Nats Park should be lower. That stadium has zero personality.

Are fans still throwing up on each other at Citizens Bank Park?

 

[jeffro151]

OPACY not in the top 10? This list is a joke.

 

[ill]

Are fans still throwing up on each other at Citizens Bank Park?

I don't think that was taken into consideration in these rankings.

I also haven't been to a game up there in some years.

 

[Guy Incognito]

I'd love to see more parks but of the ones I have been to I like Camden the best. I'd put Yankee stadium ahead of Citifield, Citifield has too many obstructed view seats thanks to the weird outfield.

Was not impressed with Citi. I think that half the love for the park is how terrible Shea was.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

I really like PNC Park. Glad to see that ranked so highly.

 

[williewilliejuan]

The worst I have ever been to was the old Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami. Went there for a Giants/Marlins game in 2007. Might have been 1,000 people in the whole place - including the concessions and ushers.

 

[Guy Incognito]

Are fans still throwing up on each other at Citizens Bank Park?

The bandwagon puker fans haven't showed up in 4 years or so.

 

[ill]

The worst I have ever been to was the old Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami. Went there for a Giants/Marlins game in 2007. Might have been 1,000 people in the whole place - including the concessions and ushers.

I have been to their old park and their new park...I am not sure which I prefer...that says a lot about their new park.

Watching a baseball game in a closed roof and AC is weird.