What happened to these MLB Stadiums?
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- MLB Stadiums die. Yes. But they don't always get buried. Baseball parks are reborn and rebuilt, and today you will learn all of these former ballpark's fates. Be sure to check out my video sponsor, Thrive Market - thrivemarket.com/fivepointsvids - use this link to get 25% off your first order and a free 30 day trial membership!
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RFK wasn't abandoned. It was repurposed into a Raccoon sanctuary.
He didn't mention RFK tho lol
Mike C do me a favor, go to 1:37 and tell me what that says
@@Sacksalot my finger must've skipped past it the first time I saw it lol
yeah it is for all my rat boys!!! i got that joke from emkay
@MANCHESTER UNITED bet
If you go into Nickelodeon Universe, the theme park in the Mall of America, you can find a red chair, marking the furthest home run in Twins history at 520 ft, a plaque of the home plate of Metropolitan Stadium, and even a marker of the 50 yard line where the coin was flipped for Vikings games.
Michael McLain the chair is on the wall of the log flume ride
I've been there at the Mall of America. Craziest thing I saw there was a shop selling Packers merchandise. I saw it with my own eyes, and it's still hard to believe...
All2Meme youd be surprised how much packers fans are tolerated along the river alot of the bigger towns and cities(10k or more) have at least a viking and packer bar. However go to up in the deep north and around bemidji, st cloud and brainerd and wear green and gold and you'll get your ass kicked
I love that places do this sort of stuff. I was actually doing some research on the Polo Grounds in Harlem last week. I didn't know that it was literally across the Harlem river from Yankee Stadium, nor that at one time the Yankees, Giants, and even Columbia University all played there for several years. In fact, that's where the Yankees first noticed Lou Gehrig who was playing for Columbia as a pitcher and first baseman, in weekend afternoon games prior to Yankees' and Giant's weekend games. Sad thing here is that the only remains of the Polo Grounds is a starwell leading down from the old el-train station and a plaque marking home plate on the outside of one of the housing project buildings. That plaque has been nearly destroyed by vandals over the years. Ebbet's Field has even less. Just a plaque marking home plate in an obscurred location within the apartment lobby.
@@sominboy2757 I would have thought wearing Packers gear anywhere in Minnesota would result in a beat down...
I like how "dead" stadiums just become parking lots for the new stadiums lol
One thing you forgot to mention about Veterans Stadium being demolished is that the bases are marked where they were for years. I had a lot of good memories there and was sad that I heard that it got torn down.
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I mean, dual-use stadiums were never really a good idea to begin with.
The late 60s/70s sure loved their multi-purpose cookie cutter stadiums. A time when the teams playing in them had more character than the venues.😂
jimbo 2346 they built them to save money. Why build a baseball stadium, football stadium and a concert venue when you could smack astroturf on it, repaint it depending on the sport/take off the astroturf for a concert? Unfortunately they were built cheaply with materials later to be known to be dangerous to health(asbestos and lead paint especially) and werent taken care of so they deteriorated at twice the rate.
M Detlef r/whoosh
@M Detlef someone's got anger issues. Must be your first day on the internet.😂
@@jimbo-fk4dq Top 10 Greatest Roasts Of All Time.
The 70's is widely known as an architectural dark age.
Only fivepoint vids can make an interesting 20 minute video about sports stadiums
While leaving a tiny replica of a shout out to Brandon of TGS at 10:20 in the process. :)
Lol check out his college football vid that one was like 45 mins
I wouldn't go that far.
@@SynysterGoose your mother went that far
@@coreyperdue1966 cool
Am I seriously the only one who LOVED Shea Stadium's design?
Seriously, if only it hadn't been so close to La Guardia Airport and quickly outdated, it's a beautiful design for a ballpark, with the open air in the outfield giving what could have been a great view of the city skyline, a la Oakland Coliseum pre-Mount Davis.
The only thing I didn’t like about shea was if you got sat in the upper deck you were so far from the field, you needed binoculars.
I saw my first game there. I hate not being able to return to that venue, and yes, I liked the design too.
It was ugly, but it was our beautiful ugly.
I loved Shea Stadium!!!
Jets LOST IT when they left Shea! They had some advantage in that cold swirling bowl-They had nothing in NJ ever since!
Finally, a video where Atlanta is mentioned twice and the Falcons mentioned once that he doesn’t mention our blown lead in. It’s a miracle
28-3 haha
Fuck the Patriots. Cheating MF’s!
@@BuddWolf You're an idiot. If the Falcons had ANY class, they would not have blown a 28-3 second half lead. Face it, chump: Cheating had nothing to do with the Falcons' CHOKE JOB. They got their asses handed to them.
@Charles C fuck Atlanta too. That doesn’t mean N.E. aren’t cheaters, besides, the Falcons did choke, I never disputed that. N.E. has been caught multiple times over the years. They cheated against the NY Jets for Christ’s sake. How low can ya go. Besides, it must be a Boston and Houston thing. They can’t win straight up without a horse💩edge. Videos and garbage cans🤨 give me a break. IDIOT🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@chatman2a Kyle shanahan is to blame. He was OC for the Falcons that lost that huge lead and head coach of the niners when the Chiefs came roaring back in last year's super bowl.
When the Metrodome’s roof leaked, the Twins were already at Target Field.
That didn’t leak. It died
Lucas Milligan 2010, roof leaked and broke. 2013 stadium demolished
It collapsed and deflated multiple times, as early as ‘81.
PG13hockeyman what about the MOA
Tyler Sharp Met Stadium was before the dome so he just did what was around recently
The Mall of America also encompasses where the North Stars used to play. That's how big it is.
A cool detail about riverfront stadium: the area where Pete Rose’s record breaking hit landed is now called the rose garden with a white rose where the ball itself landed
M Detlef Betting on the sport isn’t cheating taking roids and using other things is
@@humdinkle technically steroids weren't against MLB rules during the so called "Steroid Era". They were illegal in the US but not in professional baseball.
@@thomasdemay9805 and professional baseball was played in the US...
That's cool. Pete Rose didn't cheat and should be in the hall of fame as a player. Still banned for life as a manger though.
I was a grateful recipient of the Kingdome ceiling fail in the 90s. One of the home series they had to take on the road was to Kansas City. Before the game I went to I was able to meet and talk to both Ken Griffey Jr and Randy Johnson. Definitely a moment I love.
Cleveland Browns did not have "The Fumble" at the old Municiple Stadium, it happened in Denver at the old Mile High Stadium
Steve Roberts, how could anyone forgot such an important part of the history of that fantastic baseball stadium in Denver...
The Drive was in Cleveland not The Fumble,as mostly lifelong Broncos fan who grew up 20 minutes from The Old Mile High Stadium(and really The Newer now named Broncos Stadium) both are very cherished childhood memories!!!
The Drive was at the Muncipial Stadium cuz my parents were there, but the Fumble was in Denver.
If I had a time machine my to do list would include seeing baseball games at the Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field, Shibe Park, Crosley Field and Forbes Field.
1951 has you covered. Postwar, but before any of the classic 16 AL and NL franchises moved. So you've got Braves Field in Boston and Griffith Stadium in DC to add to your list.
The Twins actually abandoned the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome 3 years before it was abandoned at the end of the Vikings' 2013 season - they were playing at Target Field in the Warehouse District from 2010 on.
The Humpty Dumpty Dome
I am weird because seeing old pro stadiums being demolished makes me say like a funeral.
One that's missing here: Sick's Stadium in Seattle, where the Pilots played their one season (and the minor league Seattle Rainiers played for many years before that) before moving to Milwaukee and becoming the Brewers. There's a rather unusually shaped Lowe's store there now, with a little monument near the store entrance showing where home plate was located.
Will fivepoints stadium fetish ever be satisfied?
Tune in next time!
NEVER
I hope not. I want a stadium lolcow series of sorts
No
His thirst for THICC structures will never be quenched.
When the Yankees first started in NYC as the Highlanders 1903, they played at Highlanders Park, a small stadium in upper Manhattan. The site is now part of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. The hospital’s neurological building’s sleep center, on the site, has several pictures of the old stadium. Yankees outgrew Highlanders Park, moved to Polo Grounds with Giants.
Robert Ewalt *1903. It is believed the New York Highlanders played as the Baltimore Orioles from 1901-1902, (not related to the current Baltimore Orioles who were the Milwaukee Brewers in 1901, and St. Louis Browns from 1902-1953).
After Tiger Stadium was demolished in 2008-2009, volunteers known as the Navin Field Grounds crew started maintaining and restoring the field, starting in 2010.
The site was given to Police Athletic League in 2016, who kept the field and dimensions the same but converted the grass to artificial turf. Opened in 2018, it's now known as Corner Ballpark presented by Adient.
Currently members of the grounds crew sre helping to restore Hamtramck Stadium, one of the few standing Negro League ballparks.
I have a seat from the original NAVIN FIELD! most assuredly someone sat on it and saw TY COBB play!!!!
I honestly thought this guy was in his late 20s to mid 30s. But that white beard threw my vision of this guy out the window. Now I want to know what Urinating Tree looks like
Gurnawaz Gill urinating tree showed his face I think a year or two ago in a video about hitting a certain suscriber count
Josh Poirier just saw that video
I pictured five points as looking kinda like Steve Howey as Kevin from Shameless...
I imagined him looking like a younger Jim Cavizel
I would love to give you a more current update on Tiger Stadium. The "youth facility" is for the Detroit Police Department Baseball Team. There is a baseball diamond there and they do use it for youth as well. The outside where the seating was is now becoming space for retail and residential apartments above it. :)
I’ve been there! It’s so cool to see and the apartments are gorgeous as well
@@eightmilesports Take a good lo at the back walls of the apartments beyond the outfield fence. They may be "gorgeous" inside (and I hope they are) but their back walls are an eyesore, starting with their color.
Cool vid. As a Jays fan, I went to dozens of games as kid at Exhibition Stadium. Metal benches down the lines, bring a blanket or cushion (or both) especially games in April and September. Ahh memories.
was wondering why that wasn,t even given a mention?
the dollar grandstand seats had the roof so stayed dry when rained
@@robbreedon1407 Loved the grandstand seats.
Honestly Wish I could watch a game there, But super happy the "SkyDome" was built
lol It was a decent stadium until the Blue Jerks moved in and turned that stadium into an eyesore and removed its functionality as a football Stadium. They should have just made a new ballpark. but 10 years later, Sky Dome was a great answer for the time and BMO field has to be the best stadium ever to watch football.
“The Fumble” happened in Denver.
This is the second video I have watched that says that - and has ticked me off. What's worse, you get mixed results when doing a Google search. The Wikipedia entry even has multiple locations on the page.
How do they mess this up??? I was going to comment right after this part. Glad you did. Go Broncos. Sorry Browns. (Not really)
@@joemeehan9329 Forget Wiki, all you have to do is find the Ernest Byner video clip. Browns are in their all white road unis and the Mile High faithful go apeshit when he does fumble. Not hard to figure out where the location was.
Jarry Park has been converted to a tennis stadium and had the Du Maurier sponsorship for the park until 2004. Now, it is called IGA Stadium, IGA being a supermarket chain in Canada.
Its headquarters are in Chicago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGA_(supermarkets)
Also, I am pretty sure Jarry is pronounced with a soft "j," like "yarri." It's Quebecois French after all.
IGA WAS ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA
Great job. Really enjoyed it. You forgot Colt Stadium in Houston the home of the expansion Colt 45s, now the Astros in 62-64. The old timers report that attending a game there was sheer misery owing to the incredible heat, complete lack of shade, humidity and man-eating mosquitoes. There were even reports by players of seeing rattlesnakes in the outfield during pregame warm-ups!
They moved it to Mexico to
Jarry Stadium became Du Maurier stadium in 1987, Uniprix Stadium in 2004 and IGA Stadium in 2018. However, the name of the park where it's located is still the Jarry Park.
Thank you FivePoint Vids for being very thorough (covered every stadium from my childhood). And I love how you transposed the before/after on the map view.
Team: *builds new stadium*
FPV: Do you have extra underwear I can borrow?
M Detlef do the taxpayers use it? Or does the team build it with the intentions of playing their home games in it?
Sicks Seattle stadium, which was home to the Seattle Pilots in their only Major League season before becoming the Milwaukee Brewers, now sits a Lowe's Home Improvement store.
I was waiting the whole video to see if Sicks would be mentioned. Even though I was born and raised in Central PA, for some reason I was a Pilots fan. It got even stronger after I read Ball Four by Jim Bouton though by then they were the Brewers.
It's my understanding that the Orioles' Boog Powell (yes, the BBQ guy) hit the only inside-the-park home run of his career there, thanks to the ball's getting stuck in the fence
Memorial Stadium is not in the Balto. suburbs but smack dab in the middle of the mostly row house and duplex Waverly neighborhood in the Northeastern part of town. Parenthetically, the Stadium site was often in a state of transition, originating as bermed-with-wooden-planking Municipal Stadium in 1922, and most radically transformed with upper-decking on large somewhat view-obstructing concrete columns in 1954.
May I take a moment to express my burning HATRED for "naming rights" ? Corporate BS !
We've gotten relatively lucky with naming rights in Minneapolis-St. Paul. But it's still a crapshoot. Target Field, Target Center, & Xcel Energy Center are ok names, but TCF Bank & US Bank Stadium are not and Allianz Field and CHS Field are only sort of ok. But on the plus side, we do have the last municipally-named sports facility (sort of) in North America: The Roy Wilkins Auditorium, home of Minnesota Roller Derby.
then you should buy the stadium and make the decision on what the stadium is named.
@@0truckmafk -You obviously don't understand "naming rights".
If the stadium was paid for by ANY tax dollars, should be named by the people.
@@mlbvintagecardcollector505 -That's my point.
What about Jack Murphy/Qualcomm Stadium former home of the San Diego Padres ( 1969-2003) ?
I was thinking the same thing. Hopefully it will be on the NFL one
@olemissfan91 The Video is about former MLB stadiums. So that's why I asked.
It looks like he left out stadiums that are still used in some capacity. As mentioned, The Aztecs still play there, there is a bowl game there, it was used by the AAF this year and a new soccer team is moving in as well.
Too bad Google Earth is behind... the Tiger Stadium site now is awesome, it’s The Corner Ballpark now with condos overlooking the field.
That's awesome. I haven't seen the site in a while. I need to go to Corktown more often
Basically my whole family saw either their first Vikings or twins game at the metro dome except my great grandparents and grandparents who saw it at the Ol’ Met
Yeah I saw my first twins game there in 2007 but I don’t really remember it other than it being really loud
Correction, The old Tiger Stadium has turned into a community baseball complex where Division 2 Wayne State University plays home games. Google “The corner ballpark Detroit”. Really nice complex.
Wayne State plays a bit north of The Corner on their athletic complex that is also on Trumbull Street.
Their ballpark now is called Ernie Harwell Field, the entrance is designed to mimic Ebbetts Field and scoreboard in left field was originally used in Tiger Stadium from 1997-1999.
It amazes me how much history is in those stadium and the stories behind it!
You forgot the two Anaheim Angels stadiums. The so called L.A. Wrigley Field (the L.A was added in modern times) where the TV show Homerun Derby was filmed. Which was home to the Angels for two years before going to Dodger Stadium for four years. And Angels Stadium a ballpark which was rebuilt into a multipurpose stadium and then rebuilt back as a baseball Park.
And Qualcomm Stadium home of the San Diego Padres for decades.
Angel/Anaheim Stadium is still the original stadium that opened in 1966. Additional seats were added when it was enclosed for the Rams, then many of those seats were removed after the Rams left, but the core of the stadium is unchanged and the current outfield seats are from the old football configuration. The football locker rooms are still intact.
The Giants also played two seasons in Seals Stadium in the Mission District. And the Dodgers played multiple seasons at the LA Coliseum. It would have been a long video if he covered every previous MLB stadium.
Qualcomm stadium, man I miss that. I used to be going to qualcomm and Jack Murphy around mid to last quarter of the year.
Out of all the old historic ball parks from the Black-and-White TV era, my favorite is Polo Grounds. It’s dimensions were odd, but interesting. Also imagine someone hitting a home run in the center field. That’s over 600ft away. Too bad no one ever did. Not even Babe Ruth.
Thats why Willy Mays catch was amazing - would have been gone in any park
Houston played their first 3 seasons in the outdoor Colt Stadium (the team was called the Colt 45's then) Being an outdoor stadium fans had to endure Houston's oppressive summer heat/humidity. Fun fact: Once they moved out Colt Stadium was dismantled and re-assembled in Mexico.
Though not mentioned, Municipal Stadium in Kansas City had hosted the Royals and Chiefs for the first few years of their existence. It was demolished after both left and is currently where houses stand. Other fun fact: the stadium was behind the high school I graduated from.
And the A's before they moved to Oakland.
True story. The parking lot that Veterans Stadium turned into is safer to play than the turf they had.
Well... Under the Astroturf was blacktop!
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I really thoroughly enjoyed this video, with the commentary !! Excellent !!
Braves Field in Boston, which is now the site of Nickerson Field used by Boston University. Some of the stadium is still standing including a bit of the grandstand!
Surviving portions are the right field bleachers, the ticket office, and the entry gate. The actual field has been in use since it was Braves Field.
The Astrodome was one of those rate cases where a team named for the building it was going into. As well as a theme park. Now all we have on one side is an empty lot, and for the other, a world heritage site.
And yes, the dome should be a history site for many reasons.
Um... The stadium was named for the team!
@@jsivco3sivco785 right, the "rare case" he said🤣🤣🤣🤣
Honestly just wanna thank you for 1 the bomb content and 2 for having a loud (in a good way) and very clear. And props on all the research y'all do
Thanks man. This was actually super fun to research and “film”
Ahem, Mall of America has 3 roller coasters, a ferris wheel, a merry go round and like 20 other rides along with 520 shops, a mini golf course, an underground aquarium, 13,000 parking spaces and a soon to be built waterpark.
Gro Skunk the Waterpark plan went through?
Compilation Crew Yeah I’m pretty sure that’s not going to happen anymore. (I live right next to the mall.)
@@Fritz___ i live right next to the mall too and i havent heard or seen any news saying the water park isnt happening.
And they have cotton candy and churros!
The argument between Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson happened at Fenway Park in Boston, not Yankee Stadium.
Olympic Stadium, Montreal
Jack Murphy/Qualcomm, San Diego
Braves Field, Boston
Municipal Stadium, Kansas City
Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Sun Life Stadium, Miami.
Baker Bowl, Philadelphia
Sportsmans Park, St Louis.
Most of those are gone, but at least 3 are still standing.
Braves Field is still partially standing, actually. A piece of the right field pavilion as well as some ticket booths still stand
I think the Aztecs (College? Football I think) still play in Qualcomm
Joe Robbie Stadium is still used by the Miami Dolphins and the U Hurricanes once they left the Orange Bowl.
It's now Hard Rock Stadium and I believe it is in Miami Gardens, not Miami proper.
Tom Brady played his last game for Michigan here during the 2000 Orange Bowl game.
@@mediocre_skewber
Yeah, and the Chargers before they left used it. They wanted a new stadium, but didn't get one. Big reason why they left.
@cpk1994
Yeah, although didn't I hear that it's only used during the summer or something? Something to do with the roof....
My dad has season tickets to the Georgia State football games. And I've also been to Turner Field 20+ times. The stadium still has the behind the plate seats and half the stadium isn't even used.
I have very vivid memories of Griffith Stadium in Washington D.C. I especially remember Ted Williams hitting a homer over the right field wall...opened in 1911 and demolished in 1965, and replaced by D.C Stadium, which later became RFK Stadium. That place, much like taxes, still stands!
The Montreal Expos last stadium was called Olympic Stadium
The home plate of the old Met Stadium, in Minneapolis, is enshrined in the ground in the amusement park. There are also legendary seats still bolted to the wall in certain locations.
Great video, as always! The Polo Grounds was also the site of The Catch.
Love this stuff! I needed this video to see that the Atlanta Braves had a new baseball park. Atlanta does churn out the new stadiums.
The Mall of America even has a replica home plate and a seat where a home run was hit (I forgot the name)
It was the longest home run ever hit at Metropolitan Stadium by Twins player Harmon Killebrew.
522 feet.
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The longest home run in twins history
The last time the Orioles won the World Series was 1983.. 35 years ago, so...other people besides the "Elderly" remember.
But most who do remember are in there 40s/50s which are pretty close to become seniors
really? because I am almost 40 and I do not consider myself a senior, nor does my sister is is over 40. Seniors by definition are 65 and above.
You beat me to the punch. I was going to make same comment. I know the Orioles have been pretty pathetic the past two years, however, they have an overall proud history. From the mid 60’s until the mid 80’s no franchise won more games than the Orioles and they won 6 A.L. Pennants and 3 World Championship’s. That is a long stretch. And just very recently from 2012-2016 no other A.L. team won more games and only the Cardinals in N.L. won more games. And by the way there are still quite a few franchises who have gone longer or still have never won at all. So, I must admit a funny comment, I think it is more pilling on to there recent collapse.
@@capsfan3940 and the last team to have four 20 game winners on their pitching staff. Amazing
RFK has turned maybe half the parking lot into three soccer fields, a playground, and a outdoor events venue. They also host a farmers market in the parking lot as well. It’s really nice now. (All called The Fields at RFK Campus) And their talking about rebuilding the actual stadium. I work literally across the street from there.
This was a great video. I was getting worried you weren't going to get to Tiger Stadium. Great childhood memories of that ballpark.
Tiger Stadium was a rotting eyesore in Detroit until Detroit became, itself, a rotting eyesore. Then they demolished the stadium since the symbolism was no longer required.
Been there lately?
Weird you mention Stu Miller for Candlestick and not the HUGE EARTHQUAKE that happened during the World Series.
M Detlef ok still a huge moment at candlestick
These videos are great!!! Keep making more! Awesome!
I can’t get enough of these stadium videos
Memorial Stadium was not in the “suburbs” of Baltimore, it was very much in the city. 33rd street being the address should be a clue.
They mentioned that the Colts left from there; when actually it was the Colts who were in the suburbs the night in which they left.
That upper deck was really steep and high.
@@54GARYBOY It was a great balance tester
@@caragsdale10 I still get angry every time I see a Mayflower truck
@@jamesmorris2578 Me too! And I feel some sort of way whenever I drive along Owings Mills Blvd, passing by what is now Stevenson University's stadium.
Ball park village is completed in st louis... Has been for a few years
Phase 2 will be done later next year
This was incredibly interesting Mr. FivePoints. Thank you. I almost wish it was an entire series. Also, we here in Houston still can't figure out why exactly the mildew smelly old Astrodome is still stands when the Six Flags amusement park, Astroworld, just across the freeway was sold and demolished for extra rodeo parking over a decade ago. Yes, Houston's annual rodeo. Look it up.
Great video! OH...the memories (especially the baseball ones)---to those still around and gone!
You forgot to mention the site of home plate in the mall of America and where Killebrew hit a homerun
They have also set the seat he hit on the wall where it approximately was originally. It was a Massive 522 ft Dinger! www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/28922
Thank you for this. Love this kind of stuff.
This video was actually really cool. Love this stuff!
Thanks!!!
8:11 Milwaukee County Stadium: The Green Bay Packers played a few home games there each year from 1953-'94.
blindleader42 I was hoping he'd mention Borchert's Orchard
The parking lot of what used to be Veterans Stadium have plaques where home plate, the bases, the mound, and the goalposts from the Iggles would be.
I swear your sports videos are the best!!!!
this video was informative but it was sad.
I grew up watching sports with my grandpa in the 90s up until he passed away in 2005. I watch the many games played in several of these stadiums.
brought back some good memories of Grandpa but it's sad about how time moves on.
our team was the Cubs and Wrigley Field is still going strong. we love the Dallas cowboys and I do love their new stadium and I think Grandpa would too.
I was a kid in the 70s and 80s & went to Riverfront Stadium a lot. Plenty of memories, yes. But once these new stadiums were built, it was easy to see how very ugly those cookie-cutter stadiums were, especially the ones with AstroTurf.
@@jamesedgar3442 AstroTurf should be bored in all professional sports. I remember one time trying to watch a game. I think it was the New Orleans saints. They had AstroTurf in the stadium they was playing in and it got ripped and torn to the point to where they canceled the game
I played at “The Corner”, where old Tiger Stadium was. It has the same dimensions as the stadium.
I spent many a bone-chilling night and at times even chillier afternoons at The Stick.
It was like we had the scary house in the neighborhood where none of the other kids wanted to come and play.
And the lovely chain linked fence in the outfield.
Very very cool video bro. I especially liked the tiger stadium section. I've lived in Michigan my entire life and I remember going to that park as a kid.
Candlestick Park's wind problem is due mainly to the orientation of the back of the stadium with respect to where the wind will blow during the evening, where most games will be play. During the construction, the owner will only show up in the morning where the problem isn't apparent. When they build the new stadium for the Giants in the 90s, they almost made the exact same mistake, but wisely reached out to some engineers in UC Davis who advice they rotate the stadium by 90 degree and have the back stop block the wind. It works.
Nice
From what I have read, Horace Stoneham’s original site of choice for Candlestick Park was less prone to the prevailing winds blowing off of San Francisco Bay. But, the site itself was on landfill (which obviously would been an issue if an earthquake were to have happened).
Thus, that is why Candlestick Park wound up being built in area that was more prone to the winds coming from the Bay (but on more stable and solid land).
Mall of America: I am the biggest mall.
West Edmonton Mall: Hold my beer.
MOA is the biggest in gross leasable area.
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FPV gets an itch to have at it with his "Stadium Fetish" and we all go away better informed as sports fans
GREAT TIMES!
@M Detlef Right
@M Detlef, damn it’s their choice, you don’t know the side of the story.
Interesting video! I had an idea for your next video, you could do the first ever stadium for every team or maybe the first ever for every sport. Always interesting man keep it up
Great job with research on this one!!
Just a quick point on Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Memorial Stadium was located within Baltimore City limits. It was located in a neighborhood called Waverly. The stadium wasn't located downtown like O.P.A.C.Y.
In YT fashion, I should have made my own admonishment, but I'll just add it here. It would be analogous to saying RFK is in suburban DC or Shea was in suburban NYC.
A city that goes through stadiums like Taylor Swift does boyfriends lmao
Excellent video. I really enjoyed the photos and information provided. One suggestion: It would have been a nice feature to include the capacity of these parks at the time they closed. Thank you!
Yeah i will do that for the next one for sure. Thanks !!!!
This has to be one of the best sports history videos ever on this channel. In terms of future videos, I would like to see something about why the NFL has had such weird divisions over the years in terms of why teams such as the Colts play in the AFC South or the Cowboys playing in the NFC East and why such weird divisions have existed in the past too.
Thanks my brother!!!!!
Wow a stadium in Philadelphia where they had a jail ready as if they didn't know
You forgot Padres Jack Murphy (Qualcomm) Stadium. You also forgot to mention the 1989 World Series earthquake as an odd occurrence at candlestick
Funny thing is I was recently thinking about Blue Apron, as I am trying to lose some weight myself, and now you hit me with this Thrive so now I am going to check them out. Thanks for putting me on to new life.
5:06 the Hawks play in CenturyLink, the Mariners got Safeco Field which is now T-Mobile Park
5:22 That's an interior picture of Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, not Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium.
Good illustration of why the stadiums from that era are nicknamed cookie cutters.
Was about to mention this myself.
Yup was gonna say the same thing
The creator of this video doesn't do his research. At the time of the making of this video, the Mall of America is the 40th largest Mall in the world. It's not even the largest in America. The King of Prussia Mall is bigger purely by retail space. The Mall of America structure as a whole is bigger, but only because there's an amusement park in the middle of it.
the mall of america also has a homplate plaque and a single seat from the stadium on a wall by the log chute the seat is where harmon killabrew hit his longest home run
I love your vids about stadiums.
Watched for 18 minutes waiting for Griffith Stadium, home to Sammy Baugh, Walter Johnson, Mantles' longest home run and all those Presidential Openers, now Howard University Hospital.
Ballpark Village has been open in St. Louis since 2014
Alpha Kennywon yeah I’m not sure what he means “parking deck structures” BPV phase two definitely has some garage space but it’s at the feet of a new office tower, new apartment tower, and new hotel tower.
From the mistake by the lake to the factory of sadness, if they ever build a new stadium in Cleveland they should find a new location
the latest brilliant idea by the city of san francisco for candlestick is urban camping at the candlestick recreation area (you could not pay me enough not only the cold but the not great area)
My father took my two brothers to a game at Candlestick in 1958 (I was too young to go). The game was called on account of fog.
I remember watching the best teams from baseball and football in those multi purpose stadiums. And remember when most wore torn down. Its strange. Thanks for the throw back.
I know you call them cookie cutter but to me a lot of those stadiums from the 60’s have kind of a clean, simple and classic look to them.
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Great video btw
@Luke Enno Never experienced one but that analogy works I suppose lol
@Luke Enno like Boring as Shit...he means,,, and they all sucked!..
@@dontworry5696 like Boring as Shit.