Nice memories of catching a few games at “Exasperation” stadium. A buddy in college could get discounted tickets so a couple afternoons we caught games between classes. Even on a sunny day in early season you could freeze your buns off when the wind came off of the lake.

ripping off Cleveland. c'mon man

Amen. I think of it every day. Such a needless sin, abandoning it and then demolishing it. Great views and history.

Yes, I thought this video would mention the "obstructed view" seats.

Navin Field, Briggs Stadium!!! Actually, those names were both before my time.

One of my very few regrets in life was never getting to see tiger stadium from the inside

@@scottstevens8606 😪 It was a magical place if you were a Tiger fan.

The ticket office building is still there as well and is now a museum.

Braves Field in Boston is still around in a similar manner (right field grandstand, ticket office)

@@pillbelichick -- Not really; isn't it being used as a football or soccer field now, not baseball?

@@gregb6469 Oh i missed that we were talking baseball fields only. Yes a soccer field (Nickerson Field). But the ticket booth, right field bleachers, and parts of the original fence still exist

They copied Fenway Park.

@@StanSwanWrong! The ORIGINAL Yankee Stadium was NOTHING like Fenway Park.

@@SmokinGun55 I know old Yankee Stadium was a dump.

@@StanSwan Like hell. The old Yankee stadium was a cathedral unlike that old green rat trap that your Red Sucks play in where you still have to change the scores by putting up wooden placards. What a joke!Comparing the two is like comparing St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome to a dirty storefront church. We celebrated 26 World Championships in that edifice. How many did you losers put up in that old green barn of yours? As someone once told me, once a Red Suck fan always a jealous sore loser. LOL!

I remember Bobby Murcer having to fish a ball out from behind one of the monuments.

Dunkin Park in Hartford has a Goat Pen behind a very tall wall in center - at least the last time I went a few years ago.

@@mrmoose6619 Just looked it up and it looks like they still have it. Pretty fitting for a team called the "Yard Goats" which is probably one of my favorite Minor League team names. It's up there with the Rocket City Trash Pandas and Albuquerque Isotopes.

@@natemorton5575 A great name for sure, but a yard goat is actually a slang term for a switcher engine used to maneuver railcars from one track to another.

​@moby628 It's also a term for goats...that live in yards.

My first MLB game was there. Athletics vs Yankees.

Nice catch

Wow. Is that true? Could see old Yankee Stadium from Polo??? Amazing

​@@phineasbluster2872Yep! And this was before the completion of the massive curling arms of the upper deck were built.

I remember going to old Griffith Stadium with my dad when I was a kid. It was the Red Sox vs. the woeful Washington Senators. The Sox beat the Senators (I forget the score), and Ted Williams hit a monster HR over the old green wall (I think the distance down the right field foul line was about 302 feet from home plate). As a young, die-hard "Nats" fan, I was disgusted, but I'd never seen my father that excited. It might have been the year Williams hung up his cleats for good. Also, supposedly Mickey Mantle hit the longest HR of his career at the old park, a screamer that is estimated to have traveled about 550 feet.

I watched that game on TV, and the spectators cheered Ted with the respect due for a superstar in the twilight of his career. The Senators answered with four home runs to put the game away. One of Pascual's strikeouts was with a changeup about which the announcer said something like, "He swung a month and a week before the ball got there."

I believe you can watch for 3 innings

It also has a 24 foot high wall

True 😊😊

I was wondering if somebody would mention The Hill at Crosley Field. Even the great Willy Mays fell victim to it his first time there. Legend has it that Babe Ruth made the decision to retire after falling on the slope.

MUCH bigger than little Tiger Stadium.

It was Navin Stadium before it was Briggs Stadium. But it was Tiger Stadium from 1961 onward.

@@marksieving7925 It was Bennett Park before Navin Field, lol

@@rklewis2 Not quite. Bennett Park was demolished in 1911 and Navin Field was built on the same site.

@@marksieving7925 Didn't Bennett have wooden grandstands? Just wondering. I know a lot of old parks did.

It was only 249' down the LF line. Some sources say 250'. Either way that's pretty short. I went to the game back in '08 at the Coliseum between the Dodgers and Red Sox that drew a record crowd of 115K+. That's more than double the capacity of Dodger Stadium.

Please stop using "would of", it immediately invalidates anything you might correctly state.

You mean God's Penis?

I been to that stadium off and on for 24 years. This is first time hearing about this, thanks for bringing this up!

@@BAYAREA-kd1ig we were given a private tour because we were biding on their EV parking. I was handed the keys to the castle. It was amazing. The bowling alley is technically in a speak easy. For players families only. It's so pretty inside.

Same with Petco in SD.

Toronto's stadium has a hotel overlooking the outfield. On game days, field-side rooms cost more. Don't know whether the team gets a cut.

It's amazing how much that area has changed. 10 years ago I worked in the Navy Yard neighborhood and the area looked like a desert with the stadium and DOT sticking out of the ground. Two weeks ago when I was back it looked like a regular downtown area full of high rises. I used to leave work on Saturdays and get a seat for $5. And the 2019 world series run was an absolute blast. I never enjoyed the game so closely and so regularly as when I worked essentially next door to Nats Park

I was at the last game at Connie Mack Stadium with my dad. People went crazy when the game ended. My dad got us out of there. I managed to pick up a bolt that I found on the ground. It was a bolt that had been used to connect the seats.

Commercialized

I was able to attend a series with my 3 sons against the Twins during Tiger Stadium's last season. We sat in 3 different parts of the stadium: right field under the overhang, center field upper deck, and lower level behind first base. We also walked around and sat in other places. I'm glad we got to go there. It was a beautiful stadium. I live in Chicago now, so I have been to some games at Wrigley Field. I have also been to games at the new White Sox Park, but I never made it to old Comiskey Park. I took my family on a trip to the east coast in 2002, and we went to a game at Fenway and a game at the 2002 version of Yankee Stadium. You should definitely go to Fenway and Wrigley. I took my boys to a few games at County Stadium in Milwaukee before it was replaced. I grew up in South Jersey, and my dad took me to a number of games at Connie Mack Stadium, including the last game there. I went to Veteran's Stadium in Philadelphia a few times, but I didn't like it.

@@andrewm4564 My first MLB game was a Noon start weekday game in April 1983 at Wrigley. Cold, cloudy and mist, 2nd week of the season and maybe 10K people there. LOVED IT. No lights, no bullshit scoreboards in outfield; beautiful park (Then). Went to a game at old Comiskey in 1990. Fenway in 1985, County Stadium in Milwaukee a few times in the early 90's The REAL Yankee Stadium and Tiger Stadium were the two that got away from me. Dad got real lucky. He got to Yankee stadium, Ebbets Field, The Polo Grounds, Shibe Park, Wrigley, Comiskey, County Stadium (Milwaukee), Sportsmans Park, Fennway, Dodger Stadium, Miller Park, The Met in the Twin Cities... That's all I can think of.

@@seththomas9105 Thanks for sharing your MLB experiences, especially about Wrigley Field. You got me thinking more about old stadiums I have seen games in (and not seen games in). I don't blame you if you don't read all of this, but I enjoyed thinking about it and writing it. I grew up in South Jersey. My first MLB game was at Connie Mack Stadium in 1964 when I was 9 years old. I remember walking in and seeing the beautiful green field below me. I did go to a game at Wrigley in 1965. My seat was obstructed behind a support pillar. The Cubs lost to the Mets. For some reason, my memories of that game are in black and white, not color. I was too young to appreciate the historical significance of Wrigley Field in 1965. I have lived near Chicago since 1997, so Wrigley has had lights, and now it has the big scoreboards. As you said, Wrigley is not the same with the flashy scoreboards. Before they put in the big scoreboard behind left field, I went early to a game and got a batting practice home run ball out on Kenmore Ave. behind left field. Another time I was walking along Sheffield, and I got a bp ball out there behind right field. It is hard to do that now because of the scoreboards. I managed to get tickets to opening day of 2003 at Wrigley. It was a day game. I watched that game in my winter coat with snow falling. They did complete that game. In the mid-70's, I worked with a company that had season tickets at Yankee Stadium. I could have gone to a game with their tickets, but I never did. I still regret not taking that opportunity. My dad lived in Brooklyn for a while. I don't know for sure, but I guess he probably went to a game at Ebbets Field. I really wish I could have gone to games at the Polo Grounds and Ebbets. Your dad got to see games at some great old stadiums. I've been to RFK Stadium in DC in 1971 and Memorial Stadium in Baltimore in 1980 (I've walked around the outside of Camden Yards; that looks like a good place to see a game). I saw a game inside the Metrodome in Minneapolis, and I went to a game in Dodger Stadium around 1985. I took my boys to some games at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City about 20 years ago. That wasn't a bad place to watch baseball. We also went to the Negro Leagues' Baseball Museum and the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City. I lived in Seattle from 1981-1997, and I went to a lot of games in the Kingdome. The Kingdome has a terrible reputation (deservedly), but I still enjoyed going to games there. It usually wasn't very crowded. I usually went early for batting practice, and I was able to get a lot of baseballs. The Mariners were good in 1995 and made the playoffs. They filled up the stadium toward the end of the season and in the playoffs, so it was pretty exciting to go to games with people yelling and the sound reverberating off the walls. The M's made it to the ALCS that year, and I had tickets to all of their home playoff games. You had to buy all of the tickets for all of the playoff games. I had World Series tickets, too, but I had to return them to get a refund. Finally, I made a list of old stadiums from the 20th century that you didn't mention that neither your father or I have seen games in: Baker Bowl in Philadelphia, Griffith Stadium in DC, Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, and Crosley Field in Cincinnati. I have never seen a game at any stadium in Cleveland. Thanks again letting me write about my baseball memories.

Yes. Too sterile

Its two most famous plays would be impossible today: the Shot Heard 'Round the World would be a double off the Monster at Fenway and a routine fly ball anywhere else, while in any modern MLB ballpark, the fly ball Willie May's Caught would be so far gone the center fielder wouldn't even move on it.

​@@TPTGopherAnd the home run hit by Dusty Rhodes that won Game 1 of the 1954 World Series over the Cleveland Indians would have been a long out in any other ballpark, or would have had to travel a lot further.

Yep, the dreaded incline at Crosley Field.

I think my folks were visiting St. Louis and were in the arch when the Cardinals won the NL pennant in 1985 against the Dodgers.

Neither did I. And as a Bostonian I can't imagine where something that big could even sit on Huntington ave?

​@@writerconsidered The Huntington Avenue Grounds were located where Northeastern University is at now. Along Huntington Ave on the side of one building there's a green historical marker plaque noting how that is the location of the outside fence, I think. If you walk onto their campus there's a statue of Cy Young where the pitcher's mound used to be located. It's outside of a building named Churchill Hall. I've stopped by and snapped a picture before when in the area. It's pretty cool.

I believe that was in right field.

@@allenmurray7893 I believe you're right.

THANK YOU. The first two sentences of this video are upsetting

And also light standards inside the outfield walls. At one time it had the longest left field, longest center, and shortest right field in the NL, with a screen in front of the lower right field stands. Babe Ruth’s last HR was the first to travel over the roof covering the upper deck in right

Don't forget the monument to owner Barney Dreyfus which was also in the field of play.

Wow you including meters was really helpful

I appreciate the Bosse Field nod as an Evansville kid. Go Otters and Go Reds!

Back when your life wasn't hopeless.

I dont think so

@@forgottenplaces9780, three of the former rooftop buildings have been approved to be leveled. The new scoreboards blocked most of the views. But what do I know. I just live here.

You mean the A's owner/manager, Connie Mack.

also had a billboard beyond the green monster, before the seating that now exists was built. In the 60s at least, you could see a bit of left field, a good portion of center, and all of the rest of the field just by climbing the structural steel that supported the billboard.

That flagpole was just inside the 440 foot mark-straight away center field. Don’t forget the open trough urinals in the men’s bathrooms.

@@toddjones1403 Same at Joe Louis, freaked me out as kid