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Austin used to have a downtown minor league park from 1947 to 1967, this is Disch Field.

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Imagine if that was still there, but rotated to have downtown views.  Today's view of the same area:

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On 5/27/2025 at 10:52 AM, mdmost said:

Great thread idea. mdleast and I are doing a trip to San Diego in August. What are some good places to go to around the stadium? 

I've hit 13 stadiums so far. We've discussed Seattle for next summer. 

Top 5 for me so far: 

1. Wrigley

2. Fenway

3. Oracle Park

4. Dodger Stadium

5. Target Field

Haven't been to PNC Park or Camden. I know those need to happen but PNC will probably have to be a combined trip with Cleveland and Cincinnati to be worth it. Baltimore was out of town when we hit DC and Philly one year. 

There is a bit of sameness with the new stadiums so they get bonus points if they're around a good area or it's easy to get to them via rail or walking. I didn't mind the Nationals park for that reason. 

 

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wrigley is my all time #1

tampa bay was my #2, loved that trip and area around the stadium. the dali museum is always amazing. i'll miss that one 

whataburger field is pure and a great lay out. i've been to hooks games, saw ut vs amcc, and many many hs playoff games. if the stadium is available, they pretty much let the hs's use the stadium for little to nothing. people start lining up at 7am 

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On 5/27/2025 at 1:20 PM, royiv said:

The best part of the Coliseum experience was the hordes of entrepreneurs outside the stadium selling bootleg merchandise and beers out of coolers.

 

im so glad @Scraps and i went out last summer for the astros last game there. great one day trip 

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5 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

wrigley is my all time #1

tampa bay was my #2, loved that trip and area around the stadium. the dali museum is always amazing. i'll miss that one 

whataburger field is pure and a great lay out. i've been to hooks games, saw ut vs amcc, and many many hs playoff games. if the stadium is available, they pretty much let the hs's use the stadium for little to nothing. people start lining up at 7am 

Fenway >>> Wrigley 

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If I ranked where I have been so far (I have 6 left Seattle, Detroit, both LA, Mets, Miami) my list would probably go like this (I don't know all the stupid fucking names now since they change them):

1. Wrigley

2. PNC

3. SF Giants

4. Fenway

5. Petco 

6. Camden 

7. Coors

8. Cincinnati

9. Target Field

10. Busch 

11. Progressive Field

12. Citizens Bank Park

13. Daikin Park

14. Kaufmann 

15. Rogers Centre

16. Atlanta 

17. Chase Field

18. Milwaukee

19. Texas

20. Yankees

21. Tropicana

22. Nationals Park

23. White Sox

24. Oakland 

 

 

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On 6/9/2025 at 9:04 PM, Texas Jeff said:

Austin used to have a downtown minor league park from 1947 to 1967, this is Disch Field.

med_res

My Mom and Dad loved baseball … thankfully, I had no choice.  Our family spent many summer evenings at Disch Field rooting for the Senators.  We saw a few future MLers pass through … Frank Howard (Victoria Rosebuds) and Willie McCovey (Fort Worth Cats) come to mind.  Years later, my Dad told me that we also saw Brooks Robinson.  Funny, I only remember seeing him in person many years later in Baltimore at the end of his fabulous career.

Baseball was much more fun when BA, ERA, W-L were the stats we tracked … unlike now where the nerds have created data minutiae to eye rolling levels.

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