Major league baseball ballparks of baseball your guide. The following is a list of ballparks previously used by professional baseball teams. Field, home to the dbacks, is the thirdlargest mlb stadium with a capacity for 48,686 fans. Professional baseball found its way to denver in 1947, when the howsam family founded the class aaa denver bears and built bears stadium. Yankee stadium, the polo grounds, griffith stadium, wrigley field, and countless other homes for major league franchises often stir up indelible memories. From the inside flap the green monster in boston, the ivy in chicago, the center field hill in houston, the bermuda triangle in miami, the convertible roof in seattle, the baggy in minneapolis, and the cove in san fransisco.
The validation passport is pocket sized at 4 x 5 and has the capacity for up to 168 validation stamps. This article is a list of current national football league stadiums, sorted by capacity, their locations, their first year of usage, and home teams. The ballpark breakdown is spread across the major leagues 30, affiliated minor leagues 159, and independent leagues 59, with spring trainingonly stadiums 16 accounting for the balance. Stadiums sidebyside to compare any two stadiums, in their current or final configuration, back and forth. Check out the ten smallest major league baseball stadiums by capacity, starting with this building that holds only 31,042 spectators. In addition to the current national nl and american al leagues, major league baseball recognizes four shortlived other leagues as major for at least some portion of their histories.
List of current national football league stadiums wikipedia. The stadium boom that begins with camden yards signals a trend of customized ballparks with more reasonable seating capacities. The 3 largest and 3 smallest mlb stadiums sportscasting. List of major league baseball stadiums simple english. Here is a look at all 30 major league parks in use today, from oldest to newest. If you like baseball and history then this book is for you. A journey through the fields of the past, present, and. Tmobile and global life are configured asis with a larger capicity, but yankee stadium can be reconfigured to hold more than either of those existing ballparks. Capacity, turf, and dimensions represent current or final data for each ballpark. Economics of mlb ballparks february 18, 2012 by frank p. Thanks to this creation by the thirty81 projects lou spirito, you can learn about the differing dimensions of every big league stadium. The team was so popular that additional seating capacity was added in 1959. In 2019, tropicana field closed off its upper deck to fans which already had reduced seating before 2019, so the stadium can hold around 20k fans per game.
Pictures of all major league ballparks present and past with the stories to go with them. By 1953, the american northeasts grip on major league baseball began to. Fenway park in boston, home of the boston red sox, is the oldest, having opened in 1912. Dodger stadium 1962 one of three ballparks to remain from the major leagues west coast expansion in the late 1950s and 60s, dodger stadium remains among the jewels in baseball. Heres a 2018 guide to stadiums, from field surface to dimensions leftcenter right fields, in feet to a factoid or two. As of 2020, tropicana field is technically the smallest baseball stadium via their seating capacity size. Baseball ballparks, baseball stadiums and baseball fields. The oldest mlb stadium still in use is bostons fenway park, which opened in 1912. After 2016, turner field was converted into a football stadium for georgia state university. Mlb ballparks, from oldest to newest ballpark digest.
Cleveland, ohio part of the beauty of baseball is its lack of uniformity when it comes to stadiums. Bostons braves field hosted the 1915 and 1917 world series. Mlb stadiums ranked by seating capacity, from largest to smallest. Some of the ballparks profiled include crosley field in cincinnati. Most of the others are major league baseball ballparks or major league soccer stadiums. The majority of these stadiums are used for american football, either in college football or the nfl. Ballparks, baseball stadiums, fields of dreams every ballpark used by a major league baseball team.
In a similar vein, whoever wants to know baseball had better learn ballparks. This book is for anyone who loves the game of baseball and loves to read about the great places of the past. Constructed like a us passport with threaded stitching and gold foil stamped cover. Click on the yellowbackground link below to switch from one list to the other. Top 10 biggest stadiums in the mlb for 2019 season by capacity. Cincinnatis crosley field became the first ballpark to lamp up and play ball at night. The mlb validation passport is the perfect book for fans who want stamps without game day facts and journal. The 10 biggest baseball stadiums in the country range from one of the oldest stadiums across the mlb built in the 1960s to one of the newer stadiums in use today built in the 2000s. All stadiums built after the 1920s were publicly owned, except as indicated by italics. A book i like that never gets mentioned is the ultimate baseball road trip. In 1968, a nonprofit group expanded and rededicated the bears home as mile high stadium.
A journey through the fields of the past, present, and future veterans stadium philadelphia phillies 19712003 with the neglected connie mack stadium falling apart in its final seasons, the philadelphia phillies were happy in 1971 to move into governmentfunded stadium built to house them and the philadelphia eagles. At wrigley field, ivy was planted on the outfield wall for the first time. Stadiums superimposed to compare any two stadiums, simultaneously. Currently all baseball parks with a capacity of 20,000 or more are included. Its very interesting to read, 544 pages, and the authors also include info about former stadiums in the cities that have them, as. This navigational page includes lists of all baseball stadium pages on this web site, organized in two ways.
Team ballpark 2010 2011 2012 20 2014 2015 2016 2017 total. What mlb stadium has the largest seating capacity answers. List of current major league baseball stadiums wikipedia. Did you know that fenway park, which opened april 20, 1912, is the oldest american league ballpark still in operation the cavernous yankee stadium has the largest seating capacity of any american league ballpark in operation. Multipurpose stadiums become the rage as a line of enclosed facilities adaptable to disparate events welcome in baseball teams fleeing decaying ballparks and inner cities. A journey through the fields of the past, present, and future book. Luckily, though, the pictures in this book are interesting and provide some nice snapshots of the rich history of mlb stadiums through the years. Noteworthy photographs of classic stadiums are included, and a particularly useful appendix contains franchise genealogy, attendance figures, chronology, and capacity sizes of various ballparks, along with facts and fillips of stadiums from the 1870s onward. Year opened, year closed, alphabetically, capacity baseball relocation notes. By 2009, when the yankees and mets rolled out new stadiums in new york, the wave of new ballparks lopped nearly 20% off mlb s ticket inventory. Even a baseball history nut like myself got worn out by the dull, droll writing after about 15 pages and resorted to just leafing through and looking at the pictures. Past ballparks ballparks of baseball your guide to. The following is a list of major league baseball stadiums, their locations, their first year of usage and home teams the newest major league baseball mlb ballpark is globe life field in arlington, texas, home of the texas rangers, which will open for the 2020 season.
Ballpark comparisons by capacity, ballparks of baseball. Anomalous stadiums shared stadiums, borrowed stadiums, handmedowns, and other odd situations. The arizona diamondbacks have decided to focus on chase field as their place to play in the phoenix area, certainly for the present and perhaps even for the longterm. Sporting news senior editor ron smith pays tribute to 46 current and former major league ballparks in the ballpark book. Mlb ballpark passport the official passport program of. The following is a list of major league baseball stadiums, their locations, their first year of. Within 12 years, all other ballparks except wrigleyfollowed suit. The following is a list of current, future, and some former major league baseball stadiums. The largest stadium is dodger stadium with a capacity of 56,000 and the smallest stadium is tropicana stadium with a capacity of 31,042, which means mlb s largest stadium is 80% larger than the smallest one in terms of capacity. Mlb ballpark seating capacities 19202010 beyond the box score. For the 2019 season, professional baseball is being played in 264 ballparks in 47 states, 4 canadian provinces, the district of columbia and puerto rico. Rows shaded in yellow indicates stadium is home to an nfl, mlb, or mls.
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