Originally Posted by
DU82
I thought the ‘60s Busch was the best of the multi-use donut stadiums, although I was there after the football Cardinals left and they could configure just for baseball.
The new Busch ranks high on my list, up there with Camden Yards for the best of the retros. The Mets fan puts Citifield in that tier as well. Petco was good, too.
Of the old ones, nothing to me could match old Yankee Stadium (the new one is too corporate.). The first time I went to Wrigley in the early ‘90s, I thought it was a dump. When I went back a few years ago, the renovations really cleaned it up, and it moved up on my list. (I last went to Fenway in 1980, so I can’t place it on a list right now. Back then, it was just an old park, not an iconic one.)
The new Braves park is blah (the big deal there is the “neighborhood” they built around it, and I’m not the target demographic for it.). Miami would have been better had there been more than 5000 or so in the park. The first of the “new” parks starting in the ‘90s, the White Sox park, is also probably the worse. Looked like a strip shopping plaza. (Went the first year it was open, haven’t been back.)
And, best food was the Brewer’s brat with their special stadium sauce. In County Stadium.