Best & worst Ballparks in MLB and why?

Question

here are my favorite ballparks (no order)
- Miller Park (Brewers)
- PNC Park (Pirates)
- AT&T Park (Giants)
- Wrigley Field (Cubs)
- Fenway Park (Red Sox)
- Minute Maid Park (Astros)
- Petco Park (Padres)

worst parks:
- Tropicana Field (Devil Rays)
- Dolphin Stadium (Marlins)
- Metrodome (Twins)
- Rogers Centre (Blue Jays)

what are your picks for best and worst
and WHY

i HATE the yankees

Answer 1

favorites: MILLER PARK its awesome. you can't beat bernie's slide and the sausage races.
and i love coors field too.

worst: wrigley and the metrodump.

Answer 2

Yes, Candlestick cost him allot of HRs. Before the Giants moved to San Francisco in 1958, they played in the Polo Grounds where Willie hit well. Maybe Candlestick cost him HRs, but the numbers are basically the same. He hit 50+ HRs twice, 1955 in NY and 1965 in SF. One other factor, is that Willie missed most of the 1952 season and all of 1953 because he served in the military during the Korean War. This may have cost him 80 HRs, tack that on to the 660 he has, and theres 740. So he would have actually broken the Babe's record, maybe 3-4 years before Aaron, and would have probably never been traded to the Mets in 1972. When Willie Mays came back to NY with the Mets in 1972, I once heard him say in an interview that the team lost something psychologically when they moved to SF, and maybe that cost him some HRs playing in Seals Park. In that same interview, I heard him say that the winds in Shea Stadium were worse than Candlestick. The Polo Grounds was a big ballpark and there were no cheap HRs there. I was there as a small kid and to a 6 year old it was gigantic. Willie Mays looked at Candlestick as his "home" ballpark, and never used the winds and the cold as any kind of an excuse, like allot of other guys who played there did. I often wondered what NY baseball would have been like had either the Giants or Dodgers stayed when the other left. Of course, there would be no Mets, but often wondered what it would be like today, and how many championships they would have won, and where they'd be playing now.

Answer 3

I love PNC- The view is basically the draw for me, and I love the city in general.

I live in MN and am a Twins fan, but I hate the Metrodome!!! We are all going to dance on the rubble pile when the get rid of that plastic,cold, crappy looking impersonal park that looks like it's made of Legos! There are really NO good seats, you are too far from the action and, like I said, it is so plastic looking... absolutely no aesthetic value. Okay, I'll stop ranting about our crap ballpark, cause IT WILL BE GONE SOON! Yeah!

Good question!

Answer 4

Favorites:
- Safeco Field (Seattle)
- Miller Park (Milwaukee)
- Oriole Park (Baltimore)
- Fenway (Boston)
- Wrigley Field (Chicago)

Least Favorite:
- Metrodome
I go to Twins games on a regular basis, and I cannot wait for our new stadium. The Dome is absolutely the worst place to see a baseball. I can't wait for 2010!

Answer 5

My favorites have to be Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, and Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The first two are just classic old stadiums and Oriole Park at Camden Yards was the first retro park ever built and, personally, the one I like the best.

Tropicana Field, Dolphin Stadium, and the Metrodome are the worst in my opinion. RFK Stadium was also pretty bad, but the Nationals are now moving to a nice new stadium in DC.

Answer 6

Dodger stadium is the best and all the others tie for a distant second place, and I have been to most of them. Dodger stadium is tucked away in the foothills of LA and as you drive through Elysian Park and into Chavez Ravine you enter another world, the world of baseball where everything else is left behind. You are captured by the moment and nothing else matters until after the game and you leave the park. I will only accept a thumbs down if you have been there and disagree.

Edit:
Woody, that really hurts, have you actually ever been to Dodger stadium?

Answer 7

My favorites:
Fenway Park
Yankee Stadium
Safeco Field
Coors Field
AT&T Park
Miller Park
Shea Stadium
The Orioles' Stadium (forgot the name)
The original Tigers Stadium

A lot of these fields are what ballparks should be. And a lot of them, especially the first two, have so much history inside their ballpark. 100 years of Fenway Park! Yeesh! Talk about history! Same goes with Yankee stadium.

Worst Park:
Rogers Center (worst team! worst city! worst ballpark!)
Tropicana Field
Wrigley Field
Dodger Stadium
Royals Stadium

The Rogers Center is terrible! But the other ones just seem like minor league stadiums. I'm not too fond of them. Plus baseball should never be played in a dome!

Answer 8

Wrigley Field is the best. I am not a Cubs fans but my wife is so we took a 13 hour drive to Chicago when my Dodgers were in town. The coolest thing I've experienced is walking up the tunnel to the seating area and seeing all of the things I've seen on WGN all my life. The rooftops, the budweiser roof, the ivy. It didn't seem real.

Answer 9

Being from there, I will TOTALLY agree that the Skydome (or Rogers Centre, as it's now called, but which I refuse to identify is as) is a HORRIBLE place to watch baseball.
Horrible company that owns the team, the atmosphere sucks.

Although, to the one individual that thinks that Toronto is the worst city, you must really favour a city where people would kill you rather than walk past you, because Toronto is a very clean, very friendly city.

Answer 10

To be honest, almost every ball park is beautiful now a days. But my favorites include Dodger Stadium, Yankee Stadium abd Wrigley field.

Answer 11

Have you ever been to Safeco field? (Mariners)
it's new but they built it to give it an old kind of feel
it's really nice (I've only been there once though considering i live in maine)
im a big baseball fan so when i go to games i dont really notice if i dont like the park i just notice if i really like the park im really there for the love of the game.