By Mark Grove
I've scoured the net and can't find any good articles on the best old baseball stadiums.If you've been to Tiger stadium,Yankee stadium,Wrigley field or Shea stadium you've seen pro ball in a real ball park.
My favorite is Tiger stadium because I used to live in Windsor,Ontario Canada in a college frat house in 1986. I was 23 then.A bunch of us would go on Sunday's and get bleacher tickets right at Tiger Stadium.
They were 3.20 for bleacher seats. Cheap seat tickets. We sat way back but it was a great atmosphere in the old park with 52,000 and change seats.The new Comerica Park is great but the feeling isn't there.
Tiger stadium is gone now,but could have been rebuilt to keep the same feel.Modern stadiums are more comfortable,but for 3 hours can't you build a stadium that has an old feel to it?
Yankee stadium cost 1.5 billion. Come on. What a waste just to have a bunch of high priced box seats and rooms along with being a museum more than anything else.
Also,you don't need 50,000 seats anymore because it's not 1975 anymore,and you don't get 40,000 people filling those seats every game. Those old great afternoon games all the time are gone if you're a latch key kid.I guess I'm an old fart even at 46 years old.But think about it,Tiger Stadium, Fenway Park,Wrigley Field and Ebbetts Field where the Brooklyn Dodgers played. Real Ball Parks. Take a look at some pics on the net
I almost forgot where the Cleveland Indians played at Municipal Stadium.
Those were real baseball parks. The only other real ones are and were in Kansas City with the Royals,and the relatively new ones at Jacobs field and Camden yards.
Notice I didn't include Yankee Stadium. never been there,but I never liked the way it was for pitchers or the right field alley. Just my two cents worth.
Email me with your favorite baseball stadiums.
Mark Grove
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