Trop o' the mornin' to ya
Today about 3:00 I will step into Tropicana Field to cover the Yankees-Rays series. It will be the 25th current ballpark I have either worked in or visited as a fan.
The five I haven't been too yet:
New Comiskey
Safeco
PETCO
New Busch
The new one in D.C.
Parks I've been to:
AL East (5 of 5)
Yankee Stadium
Fenway Park
Camden Yards
SkyDome
Tropicana Field
AL Central (4 of 5)
Metrodome
Comerica Park
Kauffman Stadium
Jacobs Field
AL West (3 of 4)
Ballpark at Arlington
Oakland Coliseum
The Big A
NL East (4 of 5)
Shea
Citizens Bank
Turner Field
Joe Robbie
NL Central (5 of 6)
Wrigley
Miller Park
Cinery Field
Minute Maid Park
PNC Park
NL West (4 of 5)
Dodger Stadium
Pac Bell
Bank One/Chase Field
Coors Field
Five defunct parks I've been to:
Old Busch
The one in Baltimore before Camden Yards
Kingdome
RFK
The Vet
Baseball is the only sport I know where everyone keeps a ballpark list.
Jim, what's yours?
And readers? What's yours? Is there anyone out there who has been to more than my 25? Please let us know.
My favorite all-time ballpark is....
Fenway. Sorry, Yankees fans.
What's yours?
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Here's my list:
Parks I've been to:
AL East (5 of 5)
AL Central (5 of 5)
AL West (4 of 4)
NL East (2 of 5): Shea, Citizens Bank,
*I've been to Joe Robbie, but only for football.
NL Central (3 of 6): Wrigley, Miller Park; PNC Park
NL West (3 of 5): Dodger Stadium, Pac Bell, Bank One
Six defunct parks I've been to:
Old Busch
RFK
The Vet
Olympic Stadium
Riverfront
Candlestick
My favorite: Wrigley
I'm only missing 11 stadiums and I don't even cover baseball.
Defunct parks I've been to:
Comiskey
Old Busch
Older Busch
Riverfront
RFK
Tiger Stadium
County Stadium
Cleveland Stadium
Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)
Exhibition Stadium
Arlington Stadium
Astrodome
Jack Murphy Stadium
My favorite: Old Comiskey - except for when the stench of blood from the stockyards wafted over the ballpark on hot summer nights.
I am not a reporter, but I have been to:
Shea
The Vet
Parc Olympic
RFK
Fenway
Yankee
Camden Yards
Exhibition
Three Rivers
Wrigley
Old Busch
Comiskey
Dodger
Pac Bell
Jack Murphy
The Big A
Network Associates
Safeco
My favorite: Shea -- It may be a dump, but its our dump.
We have actually been getting a lot of people's lists, but most of them were posted on the yankees blog because I put a link there.
Impressive lists, Chicago Norm and Hawaiian shirt. I'll say it again: Baseball is the only sport where fans just have to tell each other how many parks they've been to. It's a great feature of the sport.