visit every major league baseball park

I recently decided I want to fullfill a goal of experiencing a ball game at each MLB park. So far I have been to:

1. Wrigley Field (Go Cubs!)
2. Comiskey Park (long time ago)
3. Dolphin Stadium
4. Turner Field
4. Yankee Stadium
5. Busch Stadium
6. AT & T Park
7. Rogers Centre (but only to see a concert on the field)

I hope to hit several more this month on a road trip through the NE. It shall be an adventure…

I stumbled upon 43things.com when searching for others that shared my same goal. It is so great to see other fans of baseball that want to see all 30 Major League Ballparks. I am trying to see at least one park every summer so I hope to accomplish my goal in the next 16 years (not including all the new parks that will be built)!!
Just a couple of weeks ago I started my own website to track my stadium visits, post pictures and videos of my travels and start a community to help others plan their next baseball trip! Feel free to join me at www.ballparkchasers.com to create your online scrapbook!

-Craig

I have loved baseball all my life, but it wasn’t until my oldest son worked a temp. job in Virginia in 2000 that we started visiting ballparks. We haven’t had a real ball park in Minnesota for over 25 years so we are looking forward to the Twins new park in 2010.

Parks I have visited so far:

1955 County Stadium (Braves vs Pirates)

1987 Metrodome (Twins vs Cardinals in World Series) a zillion more games in this horrible stadium but this game is the most memorable

2000 Oriole Park at Camden Yards (Orioles vs A’s double header)

2005 Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Yankees)

2006 Coors Field (Rockies vs Giants)

2006 AT&T Park (Giants vs Dodgers)

2007 Miller Park (Brewers vs Rockies)

2007 Petco Park (Padres were on the road so my son and I took the Park tour)

stadiums i’ve visited so far
1. yankee stadium
2. shea stadium
3. petco park san diego
4. citizens bank park philly
5. wrigly field tom glavine 300th win sweet !!!!!!
6. rogers centre toronto
7. camden yards
been to marlins and nationals game but dont count cause they are really football stadiums totally different.
next year fenway and possibly jacobs field

So far, I’ve been to the following stadiums:
Safeco Field – Seattle
Candlestick Park – San Francisco
McAfee Stadium – Oakland
Fenway Park – Boston
Yankee Stadium – New York
Camden Yards – Baltimore
Veterans Stadium – Philadelphia
Wrigley Field – Chicago
U.S. Cellular Fied – Chicago
Miller Park – Milwaukee
Metrodome – Minneapolis
Jack Murphy Stadium – San Diego
Dodger Stadium – Los Angeles
Anaheim Stadium – Anaheim
Skydome – Toronto
Olympic Stadium – Montreal

I need to revisit a few of these cities that have new stadiums. I think for next year, I’ll try to make 3 cities: Kansas City, Phoenix (Arizona) and Atlanta. Ambitious but worth it!

I have lived in NY all my life so it was no accomplishment to go to Yankee and Shea stadiums. I grew up in the 50’s attending many Sunday games with my father at the “House That Ruth Built”. Over the last few years I had the opportunity to attend games at Camden Yards and Tropicana. This got me interested in the idea of visiting all the parks. While I would like to do this in a timely manner, I will chip away at a few per year until I retire. As proof of my attending I keep the ticket stub, and buy a ball and a shot glass. I display the ball in the shot glass. So far I have visited 11 parks which include the teams: Marlins, Devil Rays, Yankees, Mets, Orioles, Nationals, Red Sox, Pirates, Indians, Blue Jays, Phillies. I have also been to the Hall of Fame, Babe Ruth and Yogi Berra Museums.

I am scheduled to see the Braves in Atlanta on September 8th. This will complete all of what I consider the east coast teams. Next year I will hopefully branch west.

1. Ballpark in Arlington
2. Camden Yards
3. Yankee Stadium
4. Seattle Mariners don’t remember name
5. Oakland A’s also don’t remember name
6. L A Angels
7. San Diego Padres
8. Tropicana field, Tampa Bay Devil Rays
9. Dolphins Stadium, Florida Marlins
10. Astros

well so far i’ve been to one Kaufman stadium. You don’t go alot of places when you’re a 16 year old with out a job.

Fenway Park (I live only a few blocks away)
PETCO Park
Turner Field
Yankee Stadium (the current one, not the upcoming imitation)
Shea Stadium
Fulton County Stadium (as a kid)

Atlanta Braves (Turner)
Toronto Blue Jays (Rogers)
St Louis Cardinals (Busch)
Washington Nationals (RFK)