Isn't Three Rivers Stadium called PNC Park now? I thought they were the same stadium that just underwent a name change. I could be wrong though. I'm assuming you are talking about Pittsburgh unless there was another Three Rivers Stadium in MLB I'm unaware of.
@@matthew01234 Three Rivers Stadium was located just off to the east of what's now "Acrisure Stadium" aka Heinz Field. It was a cookie cutter much like Riverfront and Veterans Stadia. I thought DG may have left it higher on his list because of history, but I think he has a little Ohio bias. 😉
@@uncletrilly3566 Ahh. I can't deny I don't know much about that area. I don't think the was going on history though. I think he was going on how aesthetically pleasing he felt the stadiums were. Fulton County Stadium was down in the 50's. That was "The house that Hank built." Sort of like the original Yankees Stadium was "The house that Ruth built (for Babe Ruth)" Fulton County Stadium was "The house that Hank (Aaron) built. It was still very very low in the rankings so I'm not sure history had anything to do with it. I can tell you as someone who went to games including the very last game ever played at Fulton County Stadium that is was an ugly terrible stadium and I'm not surprised at all it missed the top 50. A bad stadium is a bad stadium no matter the history behind it.
@@nathangursky4628 I've been watching this video in segments since it's almost an hour long so I haven't finished it yet. When I first read the comment I was under the impression that Three Rivers Stadium was the name of the current stadium the Pittsburgh Pirates play in so I was very surprised he was saying that it won't be listed because I've heard people refer to the Pirates stadium as "the best and nicest ballpark in all of baseball." So it really didn't make sense that it wouldn't end up on the list. Then I remembered the name of the current Pirates Stadium is PNC Park. So I was then under the assumption that the stadium was originally named Three Rivers Stadium and they had just changed the name to PNC for naming rights or something. So then I brought up my response because I was thinking that maybe Three Rivers Stadium WAS listed and possibly the commenter may not have realized it because he just didn't recognize it on the list under a different name. I have since then discovered that I was initially incorrect and that Three Rivers Stadium and PNC Park were never the same park at all and that Three Rivers Stadium is actually an older stadium.
One of your best segments. I'm a stadium freak like you, and love the history and nuances they bring to every locale. Maybe more in depth stories about neighborhoods around these cathedrals of sport, and their influences in our lives. You take it from their. Great job Ginger!
Target Field in Minneapolis has not had the "big black wall" ( 39:50 ) for years now and did in fact start off with it being a "wilderness area" when the stadium was built. However, players complained that it was not easy enough to pick up the ball with the trees that were there so the trees were removed. Apparently, Twins officials also thought there were better options than a plain black batter's eye so they covered it with plants again, which it's now had for at least five seasons. This "living wall" has also met with some mixed opinions.
only big disagreements: - comerica. I'm a cardinals fan and it's in my top 3, of the 14 currently standing parks I've visited. think the skyline backdrop is fantastic. love the exterior, and overall I loved the way the park blended old school baseball nostalgia with modern amenities. hard to get a full grasp on that part of it without visiting of course, which admittedly is not really in the spirit of this video lol. - progressive field: when i visited it just struck me as a mix of boring and ugly. my least favorite I've seen... i liked tropicana more! awesome video. this was super entertaining and I haven't seen someone rank all parks across eras like this before.
Not a fan of Comerica. From upper deck seems like field is in Canada. Deck isn’t steep enough to see field with someone in row below. Tiger stadium had seen its best day but you were on top of field.
You can’t say it’s a ranking of every MLB stadium ever when you leave out Three Rivers Stadium. It’s certainly not a stadium that would be high up on the list, but it was home to the Pirates for 30 years and hosted 2 World Series and an All-Star Game. Come on dude.
One thing you keep missing, is that the older ballparks literally CRAMMED the attending fans into their seats. This was the way things were with Griffith Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, old Comiskey Park, Shibe Park, and Ebbets Field. Seats, especially those in the reserved sections 25-50 rows back, were almost always narrow, with little leg room. From about 1960 going forward, starting with the opening of Candlestick Park, every new stadium, including 100% of the cookie-cutter stadiums, like Riverfront Stadium for example, remedied these rather crowded and cramped conditions by having every seat be 22 or more inches in width, when the standard seat width of the old ballparks was 15 1/2 inches. Also, the newer parks added 6-18 inches of extra leg room for every seat in the stadium, including the seats situated on the highest row of the upper deck of seating. Virtually every modern stadium that you said was poor, like Seattle's Kingdome, had the wider seats and additional leg room. The old-time stadium seating arrangements that you say would work today, would have their capacity reduced by at least one-third, because no mlb team would accept a new park with 15 1/2-inch wide seats and two-and-a half feet or less of leg room in each row. Ebbets Field's seating capacity was at 31,902 in its last baseball season. If a replica of Ebbets were built today with today's standards for seat widths and a minimum of three feet of legroom for each seat, it might have a seating capacity of 21,268 (two-thirds of its seating capacity in 1957).
You have way too many fat people over the past 30-years to fit into those old baseball stadium seats!! 15 1/2 inch seats could fit children and some teens but not anyone else that's overweight or fat! People from 100 years ago were much smaller and thinner, compared to people from 2023/2024.
Braves Field was the largest park when it opened in 1915 and always had a large capacity (for the era). It is still partially standing today as part of Boston University.
The two old Missouri parks, Sportsmans or Busch I and Municipal in KC were left off. Modern Busch is an update of the classic ballparks and is great. Municipal had a wonderful neighborhood feel and a beautiful checkerboard turf. As a 14-year-old, I saw the opening of then-Royals stadium and felt it was too sterile with the astroturf. I also heard a visitor team player (possibly on the Angels) complaining about the brightness of the light bank in left field. Now, the Royals want to go back downtown. Go figure!
Metropolitan Sports Stadium in Bloomington, MN. was originally built for the Minneapolis Millers. They were the NY Giants top minor league team, Willie Mays played there. The stadium was designed to build on additions to get an MLB team. The Giants were actually going to move to Minnesota and play at the Met, until the Dodgers decided to go to LA. The Senators moved to MN instead & became the Twins. A year later the Viking came there to play football and they added more outfield seats. Later the NHL came next door the Met Center with the North Stars. Eventually the Mall of America was built on the site of Met Stadium. There's a homeplate in Nickelodeon Park in the middle of the mall where the real home plate was and the original seat were Harmon Kilibrew's 500+ ft home run landed is mounted on a wall where it once was.
Mt. Davis is underrated. A man literally built a mountain. How many men have any of us ever met who actually BUILT A MOUNTAIN? Not only did he build a mountain but he built a mountain ON TOP OF A STADIUM. That's like doing two things that are both literally AND physically impossible and doing them BOTH at the same time. Then, on top of that... he didn't even build it himself. He figured out a way to make OTHER PEOPLE build it. Not only that but he also figured out a way to make other people PAY for it. THEN... He decided he didn't even like the mountain he built and just decided to leave it for the rest of the world to enjoy! Quite possibly the most generous charity given to himankind in world history. And... somehow he did all this while he was very old, ornery and senile! I bet not one person who ever has the pleasure of laying eyes on Mt. Davis will ever know what it takes to actually build a mountain. Shame on you all who even slightly consider dispariging thoughts about the glorious Mt. Davis. It is easily the greatest creation in the history of mankind.
I attended games at Riverfront and it was actually pretty clean and provided good sight lines. Three Rivers was also nicer than people think except the turf was terrible. I grew up in the Astrodome and even worked there as a clubhouse boy from 80-83. There was nothing like walking into that vast stadium and if never got boring. It lost a lot of its personality after the scoreboard was taken out.
@@hounddog946 Exactly, this is the video you get from 5 minutes of research on Wikipedia and caring more about what a stadium looks like than its actual function or fan experience.
The guns shooting the ricocheting bullets and the bull being corraled. I thought that was interesting. They made it clear that you hit a home run in Texas.
Wrigley Field LA also hosted the original Home Run Derby with amazing stars of 1960, with Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Ernie Banks, Harmon Killebrew, Frank Robinson, and more. It only lasted one season though, because the host tragically died and they canceled the show.
Your problem is that you don't discuss fan experience as a contributor to the quality of a stadium. Aesthetics aren't the only. I experienced some of your "worst" stadiums, and places like Fulton Co. stadium and Crosley Field were wonderful places to enjoy baseball in. Really good sight lines and proximity to the field. General admission/bleacher seating cost very little, but the seats were closer to the field than many $200 seats in current ballparks you find superior. Baseball is about the game, not the stadium..
Kauffman is average. Why has Kaufman all of the sudden become over rated by Royals fans? (I'm a Royals fan that has been to all the parks and I would rank Kauffman around 14-16.
Great video brother. Just subscribed !!! Love these videos man. So relaxing and cool. Love the explanations you give and facts & history. If you could , can you tell us what teams played at each stadium please
You missed Sportsman's Park/Busch Stadium I. If you are going to do a MLB stadiums of all time, at least include a stadium that was active in the 1960's.
Lots of history, too. Clemente's 3,000th hit, Immaculate Reception and the first World Series game played under the lights. I'm pretty sure that the Depressed Ginger is influenced by the anti-yinzer deep state, honestly.
TMobile has gotta be the most underrated park in baseball. Great seats all around the park, by far the best retractable roof, you’ve got the Pen with the standing room, lots of stuff to do and see, amazing food, and a good view even with the roof closed. It’s a shame people can’t come all the way up to Seattle to see it in person because they’re missing out.
Tiger stadium had the flag pole in play. They carried that over to comerica but it was removed from being in play when they moved the left field fence forward and put the bullpens there
A little boo-boo: You said Fenway Park was #1. Throughout your talking about it, you don't have the number 1 alongside "Fenway Park". You have the number 29.
Yeah, I was going to ask the same thing... Is that one of your Easter eggs? Look, initially, I was not going to say anything about, but it's Even part of the CZcams time and chapter index at the time keeper on the bottom of the screen (29. FENWAY PARK).
11:34 when original RFK Stadium is demolished, they should rebuild with upgrades as the new textures, same with a new retractable glass dome for the NFL Washington Commanders and XFL Washington Defenders should United into one Neo RFK Stadium
The Canadian Mistake by the Lake in last place. Gotta love it! And yes, it was not fun watching games there but hey, we didn't know any better until the SkyDome came along.
23:36 the New Arizona MLS, MLR, and NWSL teams might join Chase Field and State Farm Stadium should relocate to Downtown Phoenix, Arizona where they remain
Target field batters eye is not a black wall. Its filled with green juniper plants stacked on top of each other. It actually looks cool in person. They call it the "Living Wall" I did prefer the pine trees but batters were complaining about them so they had to take it down.
It was getting weird not seeing Three Rivers Stadium. He got to American Family Field and I was thinking, I don’t like it either, but it’s obviously better than 3 Rivers, then it became clear he just forgot it. Damning it with faint praise, but I think 3 Rivers was probably the best of the cement bowls.
Globe Life Field looks like 4 stadiums got all fused together in a teleporter accident, what the hell? An over hanging roof, cutout pits in the right field, distracting red brick columns, and WHATEVER is out beyond center field, beats me. Looks HIDEOUS. UGGGH
38:12 Even though the St. Louis Cardinals had a very poor season in 2023, they had a top 4 attendance in MLB. St. Louis will always show up for the Cardinals
27:35 if Globe Life Field fails, the Texas Rangers might move to Downtown Dallas, Texas with the designs of Choctaw Stadium with retractable dome as the Dallas Rangers
My issue with the newer stadiums is that they slope the seats so far back making many of them much further from the playing field than the older parks like Milwaukee County Stadium. The Metrodome was the one dome stadium I went to where it really felt indoors because of the sound, the lack of light, the astroturf, and the air pressure that was used to keep the roof inflated (the air pressure at the doors would suck you into the stadium). It felt like they were playing in an oversized basketball arena or a mall. It was a very strange experience
I really miss Rangers ball park in Arlington so sad that the heat was such an issue that they had to build a new one that sadly doesn't have the charm characteristics and features like the grass patch in center field as the batters eye the office buildings and the grandstand in right field such a shame has to go to waste. That Stadium had a lot of character that the new one lacks.
20:06 is Soldier Stadium fails, Chicago Bears, Chicago Fire FC, and Chicago Red Stars should relocate to Guaranteed Rate Field as Football 🏈/ Soccer ⚽️ material or Chicago Bears can join Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field
I’ll never forget when Anibal Sanchez threw a no hitter at SunLife Stadium the visiting team’s announcers said there were less than 100 fans in the entire stadium. Lol
I'm completely shocked that Sick's Stadium in Seattle, which was the home of the Seattle Pilots in their lone MLB season in 1969, isn't ranked at the very bottom of the list.
I mean, it's your list. Just some glaring omissions : 1. Sportsman's Park (Busch I, which is interesting since you made the point to call Busch Memorial Busch II), 2. Three Rivers.
Many of us older Mets fans miss Shea Stadium. Citi Field is a beautiful ballpark, but Shea will always be the real home of the Mets. When the team played well and there was a big crowd, nothing matched that atmosphere. You can even feel the stands shake when the crowd really got going. The giant scoreboard in right contained line scores, ball and strikes, out of town scores, batting order, and important stats all in one place. It had the perfect layout IMO. It was old, the hot dogs were cooked in fire hydrant water, it was dusty, but it was a great place to watch a ball game. Today's ballparks want you to do many things besides watch what was happening on the field. You went to Shea to watch a game. I do miss the place.
@@stevep8445 I went to Shea for many games. As many have said, It was a dump, but it was our dump. It still had a great atmosphere. It was a multi purpose which they did the best they could to make it baseball only after the Jets left. It was no frills. You went there for the game, not the food or in stadium entertainment/family stadiums have today. As nice as Citi Field is today, it never matched the feeling when Shea was full and everyone was into the game.
@@stevep8445 I remember my 1st game at Shea. Padres-Mets, Tom Seaver won 7-2, Mezzanine boxes if I recall Section 18 on the 3rd base side. If anything else, many great memories.
Went to Tiger Stadium many times as a kid, had my Senior skip day there, and my first date, with my now wife. Lovely memories at the old ballpark. Go Tigers!
Hey you left some stadiums out! What about Three Rivers Stadium (Pittsburgh Pirates), Sportsman's Park (St. Louis Cardinals), Municipal Stadium (Kansas City Royals), Colt Stadium (Colt .45s) and Sick Stadium (Seattle Pilots)?
Bit harsh on Globe Life Field. It's a really nice place to watch a game. You have to have a roof and climate control because of the heat. But, I've attended numerous games and I've always injoyed it. The exterior isn't great, but I like the inside.
I always thought Riverfront Stadium was a good one; I'd always try to see a ballgame there when I was in Cincinnati. Fulton County Stadium was also a good place to see a ballgame. You left out Three Rivers, and I can't say I blame you.
He put a high school stadium Harry park over riverfront. You lose all credibility. And then puts la memorial coliseum over the kingdome. Just when you think it couldn’t get worse
Before Mt. Davis, the Oakland Coliseum was beautiful to watch a game. The exterior and concourse are concrete jungles, but the field view was very enjoyable. If you judge it based on the era and not by today's standards, it should rank much higher in my opinion.
Great job, Ginger: Interesting, factual, and entertaining. Nothing like being in the center field bleachers at Fenway Park in September 1970, drinking beer and scarfing hot dogs from the super funky concession stands and, best of all, catching a home run Yaz hit off the Tigers' Mickey Lolich. Does anything get better than that?
I feel like if Great American was on the Kentucky side and a little closer to the river with the Cincinnati skyline as a backdrop, it would be a top 10 stadium
20:48 and 28:35 when the original Astrodome gets demolished, they should rebuild it with new textures as upgrades for the Houston Astros return, XFL Houston Roughnecks, and USFL Houston Gamblers might join NRG Stadium or Minute Made Park as Football 🏈 Material
Cleveland Stadium. Bad Indians Teams kept the crowds down but still something to do. As for Browns Football. Cleveland is a football town and that place was nuts, especially vs the Steelers and Bengals, playoff games and Monday Night Games. It was the site of the first ever Monday Night Game vs Joe Namath and the Jets
The Ray's dome stadium easily belongs in the 60s with the Kingdome. Its every bit as dross and drab as the Kingdome as well as having pop flys hitting the lights, girts and purlins. Tampa is such a beautiful spot to have an outdoor ball park with green green grass and sunshine. At the very least a retractable dome.
This guy proves again he know s nothing. Putting a la memorial coliseum over the kingdome. I don’t care how dirty it was. That’s ridiculous. And then puts Jerry park which looks like a high school stadium over riverfront. Lost all credibility
The funny thing is, The Trop was completed in 1990 but looked like something from the late 1960s/early 1970s. The Kingdom was finished in the mid-1970s and the Mariners moved in in 1977. Both ugly stadiums, for sure!!
The Kingdome should be ranked higher on the list, and I know that it’s not the nicest stadium ever but I definitely think that the coliseum should be before the Kingdome, because having a dome back in the day was kind of a standard in MLB.
People that lived in the bay area before Mt Davis ruined the Coliseum will consistently tell you the it was a better place to watch a baseball game than Candlestick Park. Even most Giant fans will tell you that so there’s no way it should be over Oakland, at least not before Mt Davis and I’ll say it again, the A’s outdrew the Giants until the Giants built AT&T Park.
I was looking forward to hearing how Colts Stadium was the best home the Astros ever had, only to find it had been left out. Sick's Stadium doesn't seem to be here either.
55 is way too kind for Cleveland Muni (aka The Mistake By the Lake), but we always had good seats in the final years of the stadium b/c only a few thousand people showed up.
I was at the very first Blue Jays game ever on April 7, 1977 at Exhibition Stadium. It snowed. Also fans were chanting “we want beer!” The province of Ontario and its archaic liquor laws at the time would not allow alcoholic beverages to be sold at sporting events. So it took 5 years to change the law. We used to call it Prohibition Stadium. It is rightfully placed at 65 on this list. It was originally a football stadium built in the 40’s and the grandstand which formed the outfield bleachers, was part of the original construction. They built the newer baseball side (stands along 1st and 3rd base) in 1974, long before being awarded the Blue Jays, because there was a strong rumor the San Francisco Giants were going to be relocated there which of course never happened. So it really was weird, especially when the CFL team the Argonauts played there. The one end zone was the 3rd base stands and the 1st base stands were facing the football field at about a 30° angle. The worst of both worlds for both sports. Not only that, the stadium was often frigid in April with gale force winds coming off Lake Ontario that would chill you to the bone. And the field was often infested with seagulls. Dave Winfield, of the Yankees at the time, was charged by the Metro Toronto Police with murdering one of them with a baseball! The charges were later dropped. This is not a joke! 😂
Little shocked you neglected to talk about Sportsman's Park/OG Busch Stadium, being as it was another of the "golden age" fields of the early 20th century and the site of much of the early successes of the Cardinals (also the existence of the Browns). Fun list, though!
Exhibition Stadium was great to watch a game. Was bright and open. Has seats and bleachers. Was on Exhibition grounds and was by the lake. Was loved so much by people that they sort of recreated it with BMO field where Exhibition Stadium use to be . The Toronto FC play and Toronto Argos play. The Trop and Oakland are much worse.
Yeah, I don't get why he put it so far down. Yes it was multi-purpose, but at the very least it had two sets of stands, one that was clearly designed for football, and one that was clearly designed for baseball. So many other multi-purpose stadiums have stands along the foul lines that don't face towards the infield, but Exhibition did.
DG, you didn’t say it was your “OFFICIAL” Rankings Extravaganza, like normal. That’s got me worried… Haha …BTW, I agree with the other comment about background music - don’t like it - it’s rampant on so many videos - so distracting to me. Keep Your OFFICIAL Videos coming!!
A little bit about The Ballpark in Arlington. Fort Worth and Dallas are 32 miles apart. Unlike all the other "downtown ballparks," the Offices in centerfield was made to represent a skyline, since Arlington was only a midway, bedroom community for Fort Worth and Dallas. 2 points: The Rangers success (2 World Series appearances, 2010, 2011), caused the Rangers to be in demand for National TV games, which was at 2pm on Saturday---IN JUNE-JULY-AUGUST--which in Texas in those months, is a blast furnace! One game in 2010 I remember, the local TV crew put a thermometer on the field, and at 2pm, when the game began against the Devil Rays, it was 105, and the National Press, MLB, announcers and opposing teams all complained about the bitter heat........but the team was playing well, and they were in even more demand during those 2 years..........so much so, that Nolan Ryan (part owner) looked at a retractable roof, but it was deemed too expensive--as the Ballpark was not made to support such a heavy roof. George W. Bush and his Associate, Tom Schieffer built this GRAND, BELOVED Ballpark, with ideas from Tiger Stadium and other iconic Ballparks. NEVER did they intend for ANY DAY GAMES to be played in our 3 hottest months--June, July and August. Day games yes, in April, May and September. But the Rangers' success during the mid 2000's leading up to the 2010 and 2011 World Series appearances, caused the Rangers to be in high demand, which meant AFTERNOON games on Saturday, going solidly against the intended game times. Point 2---Unfortunately, the Ballpark was built RIGHT BEFORE the fiber optic cable, technological capability era, when it opened in 1994--Right after The Ballpark in Arlington opened, TECHNOLOGY was driving wifi for all Press Box people, reporters, and all the funky Scoreboard capabilities, fireworks after homeruns, necessity of bandwidth and all the other technological necessities for all the multi-media displays, was immediately rendered outdated/antiquated, and this is another reason for (and bad timing being right behind the curve on technology), as the Ballpark was planned in 1992 until it opened in 1994. So these main two reasons, are reasons for Globe Life Field. ONE MORE ANOMALY: Guess what happened in 1994? A player's strike! So the first year the Rangers could utilize their beautiful new Ballpark (we called it a baseball shrine), and how ironic we were cursed on the opening year of this Ballpark! (Rangers were in first place, 10 games UNDER .500 when the strike ended everything!) Ironic again, huh, that when the Rangers next built their current Ballpark, AGAIN, cursed because Chinese Virus shut it down, except for playoffs. Hope the Rangers don't build another Ballpark anytime soon---their timing is ATROCIOUS! ***Lastly, the Rangers played the Astros a couple of pre-season times (and before Houston joined the American League West), and played at The Alamo Bowl in San Antonio. Looked alot like LA Coliseum, in that high mesh material lined the right field wall, since right field was like 213 feet (best I can remember), so to prevent cheapie homeruns, high fencing was installed at The Alamo Dome. Depressed Ginger, do you have any photos of the re-formatted football field?
I can understand leaving out Sicks Stadium, Seals Stadium, and Colt Stadium, but no Three Rivers Stadium???
Isn't Three Rivers Stadium called PNC Park now? I thought they were the same stadium that just underwent a name change. I could be wrong though. I'm assuming you are talking about Pittsburgh unless there was another Three Rivers Stadium in MLB I'm unaware of.
@@matthew01234 Three Rivers Stadium was located just off to the east of what's now "Acrisure Stadium" aka Heinz Field. It was a cookie cutter much like Riverfront and Veterans Stadia. I thought DG may have left it higher on his list because of history, but I think he has a little Ohio bias. 😉
@@uncletrilly3566 Ahh. I can't deny I don't know much about that area. I don't think the was going on history though. I think he was going on how aesthetically pleasing he felt the stadiums were. Fulton County Stadium was down in the 50's. That was "The house that Hank built." Sort of like the original Yankees Stadium was "The house that Ruth built (for Babe Ruth)" Fulton County Stadium was "The house that Hank (Aaron) built. It was still very very low in the rankings so I'm not sure history had anything to do with it. I can tell you as someone who went to games including the very last game ever played at Fulton County Stadium that is was an ugly terrible stadium and I'm not surprised at all it missed the top 50. A bad stadium is a bad stadium no matter the history behind it.
@@matthew01234honestly I’m surprised you took the time to watch this, and comment, if you already didn’t know the answer to your question
@@nathangursky4628 I've been watching this video in segments since it's almost an hour long so I haven't finished it yet. When I first read the comment I was under the impression that Three Rivers Stadium was the name of the current stadium the Pittsburgh Pirates play in so I was very surprised he was saying that it won't be listed because I've heard people refer to the Pirates stadium as "the best and nicest ballpark in all of baseball." So it really didn't make sense that it wouldn't end up on the list. Then I remembered the name of the current Pirates Stadium is PNC Park. So I was then under the assumption that the stadium was originally named Three Rivers Stadium and they had just changed the name to PNC for naming rights or something. So then I brought up my response because I was thinking that maybe Three Rivers Stadium WAS listed and possibly the commenter may not have realized it because he just didn't recognize it on the list under a different name. I have since then discovered that I was initially incorrect and that Three Rivers Stadium and PNC Park were never the same park at all and that Three Rivers Stadium is actually an older stadium.
You forgot Municipal Stadium in Kansas City where the A's played in the 60's and Three Rivers Stadium.
Royals also played at Municipal for 3 years too
One of your best segments. I'm a stadium freak like you, and love the history and nuances they bring to every locale. Maybe more in depth stories about neighborhoods around these cathedrals of sport, and their influences in our lives. You take it from their. Great job Ginger!
I'm a stadium buff myself. Ging has opened my eyes about a few negative points of some to which I now agree with.
Target Field in Minneapolis has not had the "big black wall" ( 39:50 ) for years now and did in fact start off with it being a "wilderness area" when the stadium was built. However, players complained that it was not easy enough to pick up the ball with the trees that were there so the trees were removed. Apparently, Twins officials also thought there were better options than a plain black batter's eye so they covered it with plants again, which it's now had for at least five seasons. This "living wall" has also met with some mixed opinions.
only big disagreements:
- comerica. I'm a cardinals fan and it's in my top 3, of the 14 currently standing parks I've visited. think the skyline backdrop is fantastic. love the exterior, and overall I loved the way the park blended old school baseball nostalgia with modern amenities. hard to get a full grasp on that part of it without visiting of course, which admittedly is not really in the spirit of this video lol.
- progressive field: when i visited it just struck me as a mix of boring and ugly. my least favorite I've seen... i liked tropicana more!
awesome video. this was super entertaining and I haven't seen someone rank all parks across eras like this before.
Comerica is straight up disrespected in this video
I agree. I like Comerica Park
progressive feild in left feild is hideos but other than that its fine with me
might be biased because im a guardians fan but progressive is awesome, especially with the exposed bullpens and great fan experience
Not a fan of Comerica. From upper deck seems like field is in Canada. Deck isn’t steep enough to see field with someone in row below. Tiger stadium had seen its best day but you were on top of field.
You can’t say it’s a ranking of every MLB stadium ever when you leave out Three Rivers Stadium. It’s certainly not a stadium that would be high up on the list, but it was home to the Pirates for 30 years and hosted 2 World Series and an All-Star Game. Come on dude.
He should start over. 70 All time MLB Stadiums. I'll give him credit. Exhibition Stadium is the all time worst.
One thing you keep missing, is that the older ballparks literally CRAMMED the attending fans into their seats. This was the way things were with Griffith Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, old Comiskey Park, Shibe Park, and Ebbets Field. Seats, especially those in the reserved sections 25-50 rows back, were almost always narrow, with little leg room. From about 1960 going forward, starting with the opening of Candlestick Park, every new stadium, including 100% of the cookie-cutter stadiums, like Riverfront Stadium for example, remedied these rather crowded and cramped conditions by having every seat be 22 or more inches in width, when the standard seat width of the old ballparks was 15 1/2 inches. Also, the newer parks added 6-18 inches of extra leg room for every seat in the stadium, including the seats situated on the highest row of the upper deck of seating. Virtually every modern stadium that you said was poor, like Seattle's Kingdome, had the wider seats and additional leg room. The old-time stadium seating arrangements that you say would work today, would have their capacity reduced by at least one-third, because no mlb team would accept a new park with 15 1/2-inch wide seats and two-and-a half feet or less of leg room in each row. Ebbets Field's seating capacity was at 31,902 in its last baseball season. If a replica of Ebbets were built today with today's standards for seat widths and a minimum of three feet of legroom for each seat, it might have a seating capacity of 21,268 (two-thirds of its seating capacity in 1957).
You have way too many fat people over the past 30-years to fit into those old baseball stadium seats!! 15 1/2 inch seats could fit children and some teens but not anyone else that's overweight or fat! People from 100 years ago were much smaller and thinner, compared to people from 2023/2024.
Braves Field was the largest park when it opened in 1915 and always had a large capacity (for the era). It is still partially standing today as part of Boston University.
It shows that he did *zero* research to miss Braves Field being the largest in MLB back then.
The Red Sox hosted their 1915 World Series home games at Braves Field because it was far larger in terms of seating than Fenway Park.
The two old Missouri parks, Sportsmans or Busch I and Municipal in KC were left off. Modern Busch is an update of the classic ballparks and is great. Municipal had a wonderful neighborhood feel and a beautiful checkerboard turf. As a 14-year-old, I saw the opening of then-Royals stadium and felt it was too sterile with the astroturf. I also heard a visitor team player (possibly on the Angels) complaining about the brightness of the light bank in left field. Now, the Royals want to go back downtown. Go figure!
Interesting music, ngl.
You should do a video ranking all NFL stadiums in history.
Music is atrocious. So gloomy
Metropolitan Sports Stadium in Bloomington, MN. was originally built for the Minneapolis Millers. They were the NY Giants top minor league team, Willie Mays played there. The stadium was designed to build on additions to get an MLB team. The Giants were actually going to move to Minnesota and play at the Met, until the Dodgers decided to go to LA.
The Senators moved to MN instead & became the Twins. A year later the Viking came there to play football and they added more outfield seats. Later the NHL came next door the Met Center with the North Stars. Eventually the Mall of America was built on the site of Met Stadium. There's a homeplate in Nickelodeon Park in the middle of the mall where the real home plate was and the original seat were Harmon Kilibrew's 500+ ft home run landed is mounted on a wall where it once was.
Mt. Davis is underrated. A man literally built a mountain. How many men have any of us ever met who actually BUILT A MOUNTAIN? Not only did he build a mountain but he built a mountain ON TOP OF A STADIUM. That's like doing two things that are both literally AND physically impossible and doing them BOTH at the same time. Then, on top of that... he didn't even build it himself. He figured out a way to make OTHER PEOPLE build it. Not only that but he also figured out a way to make other people PAY for it. THEN... He decided he didn't even like the mountain he built and just decided to leave it for the rest of the world to enjoy! Quite possibly the most generous charity given to himankind in world history. And... somehow he did all this while he was very old, ornery and senile! I bet not one person who ever has the pleasure of laying eyes on Mt. Davis will ever know what it takes to actually build a mountain. Shame on you all who even slightly consider dispariging thoughts about the glorious Mt. Davis. It is easily the greatest creation in the history of mankind.
Lets gooo DG. Glad to see long form content like this. Keep up the grind brotha
I attended games at Riverfront and it was actually pretty clean and provided good sight lines.
Three Rivers was also nicer than people think except the turf was terrible.
I grew up in the Astrodome and even worked there as a clubhouse boy from 80-83.
There was nothing like walking into that vast stadium and if never got boring. It lost a lot of its personality after the scoreboard was taken out.
I went to riverfront as a kid that stadium was huge, but I always questioned why they didn't have all red seats
How do you rate Three Rivers Stadium? 6 championships, baby!
@@hounddog946 Exactly, this is the video you get from 5 minutes of research on Wikipedia and caring more about what a stadium looks like than its actual function or fan experience.
The guns shooting the ricocheting bullets and the bull being corraled. I thought that was interesting. They made it clear that you hit a home run in Texas.
Three Rivers Stadium? or did I miss it?
Wrigley Field LA also hosted the original Home Run Derby with amazing stars of 1960, with Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Ernie Banks, Harmon Killebrew, Frank Robinson, and more. It only lasted one season though, because the host tragically died and they canceled the show.
They used to replay those on ESPN Classic! I loved those contests!
@@bucksdiaryfan yep, used to watch them all the time when ESPN Classic debuted, in between actual home run derbies
Your problem is that you don't discuss fan experience as a contributor to the quality of a stadium. Aesthetics aren't the only. I experienced some of your "worst" stadiums, and places like Fulton Co. stadium and Crosley Field were wonderful places to enjoy baseball in. Really good sight lines and proximity to the field. General admission/bleacher seating cost very little, but the seats were closer to the field than many $200 seats in current ballparks you find superior. Baseball is about the game, not the stadium..
I just made this same point about Crosley Field -- fans *loved* that ballpark . ..
Kauffman Stadium that low?!?! Are you serious?!?! C’mon DG, you’re better than that!
Kauffman is average. Why has Kaufman all of the sudden become over rated by Royals fans? (I'm a Royals fan that has been to all the parks and I would rank Kauffman around 14-16.
You roasting Riverfront stadium is the hardest I’ve laughed in a while 😂 thank u
Great video brother. Just subscribed !!! Love these videos man. So relaxing and cool. Love the explanations you give and facts & history.
If you could , can you tell us what teams played at each stadium please
You missed Sportsman's Park/Busch Stadium I. If you are going to do a MLB stadiums of all time, at least include a stadium that was active in the 1960's.
Target Field's batter's eye used to have trees when it opened, but they tore them down after a year.
What about Three Rivers Stadium? While it was no where near as nice as Forbes Field or PNC Park, the Pirates did play there for about 30 years.
Lots of history, too. Clemente's 3,000th hit, Immaculate Reception and the first World Series game played under the lights. I'm pretty sure that the Depressed Ginger is influenced by the anti-yinzer deep state, honestly.
Home of the immaculate reception 🤩
TMobile has gotta be the most underrated park in baseball. Great seats all around the park, by far the best retractable roof, you’ve got the Pen with the standing room, lots of stuff to do and see, amazing food, and a good view even with the roof closed. It’s a shame people can’t come all the way up to Seattle to see it in person because they’re missing out.
Tiger stadium had the flag pole in play. They carried that over to comerica but it was removed from being in play when they moved the left field fence forward and put the bullpens there
Three Rivers Stadium, Municipal Stadium, Colt Stadium, and Sick's Stadium have left the chat.
What about Jarrey Park in Montreal? Or was it spelled Jarry or Jerry?... I can't remember. 😊
@@oldiesgeek454 It is on the video, it was called Jarry Park but now they normally add Stadium after that.
@@dominicanball2361 Thanks... That's what I get for skipping past all the stadiums until I got to numbers 10 through 1. 🙄
As a Canadian baseball fan. I'm not surprised where you rank exhibition stadium. I'm shocked that Olympic Stadium was not right beside it.
Canadian baseball fan? That exists?
@@westhoodqualzini7884why not ?
A little boo-boo: You said Fenway Park was #1. Throughout your talking about it, you don't have the number 1 alongside "Fenway Park". You have the number 29.
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Yeah, I was going to ask the same thing... Is that one of your Easter eggs? Look, initially, I was not going to say anything about, but it's Even part of the CZcams time and chapter index at the time keeper on the bottom of the screen (29. FENWAY PARK).
11:34 when original RFK Stadium is demolished, they should rebuild with upgrades as the new textures, same with a new retractable glass dome for the NFL Washington Commanders and XFL Washington Defenders should United into one Neo RFK Stadium
Comerica park is sweet, this guy has never been there
YO GET THAT BACKGROUND MUSIC OUT OF HERE DAWG. also learn abou the texas a&m commerence history 🥺
I like it
I like it too.
I enjoy it, I just think it may be too loud
Says @TexasAMCommerencefan69420 😂
I like it
The Canadian Mistake by the Lake in last place. Gotta love it!
And yes, it was not fun watching games there but hey, we didn't know any better until the SkyDome came along.
23:36 the New Arizona MLS, MLR, and NWSL teams might join Chase Field and State Farm Stadium should relocate to Downtown Phoenix, Arizona where they remain
NOBODY who went to games in both places would rate old Comiskey over Tiger Stadium. NOT EVEN CLOSE!
Right!
It was scary outside Tiger Stadium.
100% right.
Target field batters eye is not a black wall. Its filled with green juniper plants stacked on top of each other. It actually looks cool in person. They call it the "Living Wall" I did prefer the pine trees but batters were complaining about them so they had to take it down.
I had to pause to comment...I'm at no 55 and your descriptions are hilarious. Kudos!!
You forgot Three Rivers Stadium
Thanks for putting this together. Great job.
It was getting weird not seeing Three Rivers Stadium. He got to American Family Field and I was thinking, I don’t like it either, but it’s obviously better than 3 Rivers, then it became clear he just forgot it. Damning it with faint praise, but I think 3 Rivers was probably the best of the cement bowls.
Three rivers is legendary stadium in football history. Immaculate reception 🤩
Petco Park is my favourite modern ballpark! Fenway Park is my favourite older park!! 😍
Globe Life Field looks like 4 stadiums got all fused together in a teleporter accident, what the hell? An over hanging roof, cutout pits in the right field, distracting red brick columns, and WHATEVER is out beyond center field, beats me. Looks HIDEOUS. UGGGH
38:12 Even though the St. Louis Cardinals had a very poor season in 2023, they had a top 4 attendance in MLB. St. Louis will always show up for the Cardinals
27:35 if Globe Life Field fails, the Texas Rangers might move to Downtown Dallas, Texas with the designs of Choctaw Stadium with retractable dome as the Dallas Rangers
Not a big fan of background music
That's wild I was watching all the stadium ranking videos and this one started playing and I had no idea it was released 20 minutes ago
My issue with the newer stadiums is that they slope the seats so far back making many of them much further from the playing field than the older parks like Milwaukee County Stadium. The Metrodome was the one dome stadium I went to where it really felt indoors because of the sound, the lack of light, the astroturf, and the air pressure that was used to keep the roof inflated (the air pressure at the doors would suck you into the stadium). It felt like they were playing in an oversized basketball arena or a mall. It was a very strange experience
It's possibly a safety issue.
If Fenway Park is #1, why does it say 29?
I really miss Rangers ball park in Arlington so sad that the heat was such an issue that they had to build a new one that sadly doesn't have the charm characteristics and features like the grass patch in center field as the batters eye the office buildings and the grandstand in right field such a shame has to go to waste. That Stadium had a lot of character that the new one lacks.
Remember being a kid and loving it. I thought it looked better than Jerry World. I haven't been to the other park since i moved.
20:06 is Soldier Stadium fails, Chicago Bears, Chicago Fire FC, and Chicago Red Stars should relocate to Guaranteed Rate Field as Football 🏈/ Soccer ⚽️ material or Chicago Bears can join Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field
haven't even watched this video yet but points for even tackling the subject - super excited
Two things:
1. This guy hates American Family Field
2. "Dodger Stadium" was spelt incorrectly!!!🤓🤓🤓
I’ll never forget when Anibal Sanchez threw a no hitter at SunLife Stadium the visiting team’s announcers said there were less than 100 fans in the entire stadium. Lol
I'm completely shocked that Sick's Stadium in Seattle, which was the home of the Seattle Pilots in their lone MLB season in 1969, isn't ranked at the very bottom of the list.
It sucked, but the majority of sports youtubers I've watched do rank Exhibition Stadium as the worst.
I mean, it's your list. Just some glaring omissions : 1. Sportsman's Park (Busch I, which is interesting since you made the point to call Busch Memorial Busch II), 2. Three Rivers.
Wrigley Field LA, is cool to me because it was in episode of the Twilight Zone.
Many of us older Mets fans miss Shea Stadium. Citi Field is a beautiful ballpark, but Shea will always be the real home of the Mets. When the team played well and there was a big crowd, nothing matched that atmosphere. You can even feel the stands shake when the crowd really got going.
The giant scoreboard in right contained line scores, ball and strikes, out of town scores, batting order, and important stats all in one place. It had the perfect layout IMO.
It was old, the hot dogs were cooked in fire hydrant water, it was dusty, but it was a great place to watch a ball game. Today's ballparks want you to do many things besides watch what was happening on the field. You went to Shea to watch a game.
I do miss the place.
@@stevep8445 I went to Shea for many games. As many have said, It was a dump, but it was our dump. It still had a great atmosphere. It was a multi purpose which they did the best they could to make it baseball only after the Jets left. It was no frills. You went there for the game, not the food or in stadium entertainment/family stadiums have today. As nice as Citi Field is today, it never matched the feeling when Shea was full and everyone was into the game.
@@stevep8445 I remember my 1st game at Shea. Padres-Mets, Tom Seaver won 7-2, Mezzanine boxes if I recall Section 18 on the 3rd base side. If anything else, many great memories.
23:01 SoFi Stadium and the new Intuit Dome should relocate to Anaheim, California where the Angels 👼 and Mighty Ducks 🦆 are the only hope
Went to Tiger Stadium many times as a kid, had my Senior skip day there, and my first date, with my now wife. Lovely memories at the old ballpark. Go Tigers!
Can't even begin how stimulating it is to watch videos on baseball stadiums
Is that snes donkey kong in the background? Good stuff
I like your videos, but I would’ve added which team played for each stadium and from what years.... Just a thought 😉
Wait.. where is 3 Rivers Stadium??? Man you hate Pittsburgh so much...
Hey you left some stadiums out! What about Three Rivers Stadium (Pittsburgh Pirates), Sportsman's Park (St. Louis Cardinals), Municipal Stadium (Kansas City Royals), Colt Stadium (Colt .45s) and Sick Stadium (Seattle Pilots)?
This is probably your best video btw. Try to take more time and put together more cohesive content like this when you can
Bit harsh on Globe Life Field. It's a really nice place to watch a game. You have to have a roof and climate control because of the heat. But, I've attended numerous games and I've always injoyed it. The exterior isn't great, but I like the inside.
Why’d you rank Fenway 29th? 😭😭😭😭😭
I always thought Riverfront Stadium was a good one; I'd always try to see a ballgame there when I was in Cincinnati. Fulton County Stadium was also a good place to see a ballgame. You left out Three Rivers, and I can't say I blame you.
He put a high school stadium Harry park over riverfront. You lose all credibility. And then puts la memorial coliseum over the kingdome. Just when you think it couldn’t get worse
Before Mt. Davis, the Oakland Coliseum was beautiful to watch a game. The exterior and concourse are concrete jungles, but the field view was very enjoyable. If you judge it based on the era and not by today's standards, it should rank much higher in my opinion.
Great job, Ginger: Interesting, factual, and entertaining. Nothing like being in the center field bleachers at Fenway Park in September 1970, drinking beer and scarfing hot dogs from the super funky concession stands and, best of all, catching a home run Yaz hit off the Tigers' Mickey Lolich. Does anything get better than that?
Superbly done, good shoutout to Shibe Park and ballpark of Arlington.
I feel like if Great American was on the Kentucky side and a little closer to the river with the Cincinnati skyline as a backdrop, it would be a top 10 stadium
22:19 that is incorrect. They can't destroy it because it's a state landmark because some people don't want it to be destroyed for some reason
Fact on Busch stadium II, the “arches” at the top were made to make the stadium look like a bottle cap, for Busch
I think your sound mixing might be off, music was really loud on the video. Kind of overpowered what you were saying
What's the name of the music instrumental? Sounds 👍
I have good memories of Riverfront Stadium. My first baseball game in 1973. Reds vs Braves. Johnny Bench, Pete Rose and Hank Aaron 😊
20:48 and 28:35 when the original Astrodome gets demolished, they should rebuild it with new textures as upgrades for the Houston Astros return, XFL Houston Roughnecks, and USFL Houston Gamblers might join NRG Stadium or Minute Made Park as Football 🏈 Material
Cleveland Stadium. Bad Indians Teams kept the crowds down but still something to do. As for Browns Football. Cleveland is a football town and that place was nuts, especially vs the Steelers and Bengals, playoff games and Monday Night Games. It was the site of the first ever Monday Night Game vs Joe Namath and the Jets
"Guaranteed rate not located in a good part of Chicago" - says man who likely has never been to Chicago
The Ray's dome stadium easily belongs in the 60s with the Kingdome. Its every bit as dross and drab as the Kingdome as well as having pop flys hitting the lights, girts and purlins. Tampa is such a beautiful spot to have an outdoor ball park with green green grass and sunshine. At the very least a retractable dome.
This guy proves again he know s nothing. Putting a la memorial coliseum over the kingdome. I don’t care how dirty it was. That’s ridiculous. And then puts Jerry park which looks like a high school stadium over riverfront. Lost all credibility
The funny thing is, The Trop was completed in 1990 but looked like something from the late 1960s/early 1970s. The Kingdom was finished in the mid-1970s and the Mariners moved in in 1977. Both ugly stadiums, for sure!!
The Murph,Oakland Colliseum, Candlestick all suffered once they were closed in only Agels Stadium did it right and going back to open
Well I disagreef with quite a few but I give you mad props for putting this together. It couldn't have been easy.
The Kingdome should be ranked higher on the list, and I know that it’s not the nicest stadium ever but I definitely think that the coliseum should be before the Kingdome, because having a dome back in the day was kind of a standard in MLB.
People that lived in the bay area before Mt Davis ruined the Coliseum will consistently tell you the it was a better place to watch a baseball game than Candlestick Park. Even most Giant fans will tell you that so there’s no way it should be over Oakland, at least not before Mt Davis and I’ll say it again, the A’s outdrew the Giants until the Giants built AT&T Park.
Was there ever a worse located park than swirling windy Candlestick? I can still see the hot dog wrappers clinging to the chain link fence. 😊
It's a shame the 70's stadiums were so low brow. Terrible designs. Meanwhile we got to pay $5 or less to watch Hall of Fame players.
29. ) Fenway Park ???? ;-)
Glad I saw the old baseball gems before they were demolished old Yankee stadium , tiger stadium and comiskey park.
I was looking forward to hearing how Colts Stadium was the best home the Astros ever had, only to find it had been left out. Sick's Stadium doesn't seem to be here either.
Put this on to fall asleep
55 is way too kind for Cleveland Muni (aka The Mistake By the Lake), but we always had good seats in the final years of the stadium b/c only a few thousand people showed up.
Glad to see both Petco and Oracle top 10.
I was at the very first Blue Jays game ever on April 7, 1977 at Exhibition Stadium. It snowed. Also fans were chanting “we want beer!” The province of Ontario and its archaic liquor laws at the time would not allow alcoholic beverages to be sold at sporting events. So it took 5 years to change the law. We used to call it Prohibition Stadium. It is rightfully placed at 65 on this list. It was originally a football stadium built in the 40’s and the grandstand which formed the outfield bleachers, was part of the original construction. They built the newer baseball side (stands along 1st and 3rd base) in 1974, long before being awarded the Blue Jays, because there was a strong rumor the San Francisco Giants were going to be relocated there which of course never happened. So it really was weird, especially when the CFL team the Argonauts played there. The one end zone was the 3rd base stands and the 1st base stands were facing the football field at about a 30° angle. The worst of both worlds for both sports.
Not only that, the stadium was often frigid in April with gale force winds coming off Lake Ontario that would chill you to the bone. And the field was often infested with seagulls. Dave Winfield, of the Yankees at the time, was charged by the Metro Toronto Police with murdering one of them with a baseball! The charges were later dropped. This is not a joke! 😂
Oakland Coliseum comparison 😅 Gotta agree with this list 💯
Little shocked you neglected to talk about Sportsman's Park/OG Busch Stadium, being as it was another of the "golden age" fields of the early 20th century and the site of much of the early successes of the Cardinals (also the existence of the Browns). Fun list, though!
Why does the top 10 in this video not match your "Top 10 stadiums of all time" video from 4 months ago?
Sportsman's Park? Or did I just miss it?
I hope you do an NFL stadium rankings.
Exhibition Stadium was great to watch a game. Was bright and open. Has seats and bleachers. Was on Exhibition grounds and was by the lake. Was loved so much by people that they sort of recreated it with BMO field where Exhibition Stadium use to be . The Toronto FC play and Toronto Argos play. The Trop and Oakland are much worse.
Yeah, I don't get why he put it so far down. Yes it was multi-purpose, but at the very least it had two sets of stands, one that was clearly designed for football, and one that was clearly designed for baseball. So many other multi-purpose stadiums have stands along the foul lines that don't face towards the infield, but Exhibition did.
DG, you didn’t say it was your “OFFICIAL” Rankings Extravaganza, like normal. That’s got me worried… Haha
…BTW, I agree with the other comment about background music - don’t like it - it’s rampant on so many videos - so distracting to me.
Keep Your OFFICIAL Videos coming!!
A little bit about The Ballpark in Arlington. Fort Worth and Dallas are 32 miles apart. Unlike all the other "downtown ballparks," the Offices in centerfield was made to represent a skyline, since Arlington was only a midway, bedroom community for Fort Worth and Dallas.
2 points: The Rangers success (2 World Series appearances, 2010, 2011), caused the Rangers to be in demand for National TV games, which was at 2pm on Saturday---IN JUNE-JULY-AUGUST--which in Texas in those months, is a blast furnace! One game in 2010 I remember, the local TV crew put a thermometer on the field, and at 2pm, when the game began against the Devil Rays, it was 105, and the National Press, MLB, announcers and opposing teams all complained about the bitter heat........but the team was playing well, and they were in even more demand during those 2 years..........so much so, that Nolan Ryan (part owner) looked at a retractable roof, but it was deemed too expensive--as the Ballpark was not made to support such a heavy roof.
George W. Bush and his Associate, Tom Schieffer built this GRAND, BELOVED Ballpark, with ideas from Tiger Stadium and other iconic Ballparks. NEVER did they intend for ANY DAY GAMES to be played in our 3 hottest months--June, July and August. Day games yes, in April, May and September. But the Rangers' success during the mid 2000's leading up to the 2010 and 2011 World Series appearances, caused the Rangers to be in high demand, which meant AFTERNOON games on Saturday, going solidly against the intended game times.
Point 2---Unfortunately, the Ballpark was built RIGHT BEFORE the fiber optic cable, technological capability era, when it opened in 1994--Right after The Ballpark in Arlington opened, TECHNOLOGY was driving wifi for all Press Box people, reporters, and all the funky Scoreboard capabilities, fireworks after homeruns, necessity of bandwidth and all the other technological necessities for all the multi-media displays, was immediately rendered outdated/antiquated, and this is another reason for (and bad timing being right behind the curve on technology), as the Ballpark was planned in 1992 until it opened in 1994. So these main two reasons, are reasons for Globe Life Field.
ONE MORE ANOMALY: Guess what happened in 1994? A player's strike! So the first year the Rangers could utilize their beautiful new Ballpark (we called it a baseball shrine), and how ironic we were cursed on the opening year of this Ballpark! (Rangers were in first place, 10 games UNDER .500 when the strike ended everything!)
Ironic again, huh, that when the Rangers next built their current Ballpark, AGAIN, cursed because Chinese Virus shut it down, except for playoffs.
Hope the Rangers don't build another Ballpark anytime soon---their timing is ATROCIOUS!
***Lastly, the Rangers played the Astros a couple of pre-season times (and before Houston joined the American League West), and played at The Alamo Bowl in San Antonio. Looked alot like LA Coliseum, in that high mesh material lined the right field wall, since right field was like 213 feet (best I can remember), so to prevent cheapie homeruns, high fencing was installed at The Alamo Dome. Depressed Ginger, do you have any photos of the re-formatted football field?