Baseball Stadiums?

Question

I am curious,

What baseball stadium in the history of baseball (U.S.)
has had the most baseballs land outside of it? rather it be a foul ball or a homerun?

I was watching a movie on baseball and made me curious.

Answer 1

Fenway Park in Boston is the oldest stadium in major league baseball. It opened in 1912. Wrigley Field, in Chicago, didn't open until 1914.

Fenway Park would be a pretty safe bet for the answer. Nobody tracks foul balls hit out of stadiums.

Answer 2

Fenway (Red Sox) has the most hit out of all active parks
AT&T (Giants) is my second guess, with the shallow right field

I also found the below quote on a web site and i check a seating chart and it had no outfield seats, if it went over the fence it was out of the park

"When Pfeffer hit 25 home runs in 1884, three other Chicago teammates topped 20. Lake Front Park had the shortest foul lines ever in major-league baseball; 180' in left, 196' in right. Balls hit over the short fences were counted as two-base hits in other seasons, but a ground-rule change in 1884 made them homers. "

also the average age of a ball is 7 pitches not 3.5, thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard, not that many pitches are fouled off or thrown in the dirt, any hit balls are returned to the pitcher

Answer 3

Although Wrigley Field ( Chicago Cubs ) has the longest on field dimensions down the foul lines ( 355 and 353ft ), the bleachers have been ( until last season ) very small,and the so-called "power alleys..ie left-center, right center, are very short, making it relatively easy for a ball to leave the ballpark. Since it is one of the oldest Major League parks, I would certainly guess more balls have "flown out" of Wrigley than any other.
I doubt there has ever been a count of balls actually leaving the ballpark, fair or foul.

Answer 4

It is probably Wrigley Field like a few people said. I am a die-hard Cubs fan and know that about one in three home runs seems to go out of the park.

Side note- to all those people that think the wind is always blowing out in Wrigley, the Chicago Tribune had an article about 2 weeks ago. I don't remember the exact numbers...but the wind blows in about 45% of the time, it blows out only 25%, and it blows across about 30%.

Answer 5

It's actually Polo Grounds, they used to have the outfield about 500 feet, and in the outfield is where they had the majority of there stands, they had about 30 rows behind homeplate, and the only thing above it was the press box, they say the life of a baseball (amount of time it stays in a game) is 3.5 pitches, and i saw on some trivia that the average life of a baseball at polo grounds was 2 pitches, because so many people would rip them foul out of the park, or foul them straigh back! crazy huh

Answer 6

Because of its age and distance to the fence. Also the wind is a big factor in carrying the ball out in WRIGLEY FIELD in Chicago.
Go CUBS!!!

Answer 7

Gotta say it's Wrigley Field in Chicago, just because it's been around the longest and has a lot of balls hit out every year.

Answer 8

Cleveland stadium