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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.

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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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I’ve slowed on my march to all 30 (only 1 new one in the last two years) but checked off Loandepot Park last Monday with 11,127 of my closest friends.

That place cost $600M to build and it looks it. Sucks it gets to host a WBC final next year.  At least it has a roof and the AC is good.

The whole time all I could think about was “this is like a 21st century version of the Alamodome.”

The ambiance was worse than a minor league game. They didn’t even try to get the crowd in to it. (Not the worst thing… no one needs to hear “errybody clap yo hands”). But it was still bizarre at how little  attempt there was to get the crowd to be part of the action.

I guess  a 2-1 game in front of 11k is about as snooze worthy as it gets.

at least I saw a Stowers homer…. And Martin Maldonado double.

(And as evidence I know nothing about Marlins baseball history, I did learn it was built on the site of the old orange bowl which makes sense because I was really confused how a current day stadium could be built in the middle of a residential area… and also learned the current “Miami Marlins” name is a nod to the old independent leagues. This a great (longcat) read on Satchel Paige ending his career with the Miami Marlins:

https://sabr.org/journal/article/satchel-paige-twilight-with-the-marlins/
 

 

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Not sure how I’ve missed this. Wife and I have done 29. Final park will be Toronto in two weeks for the rangers series. It’s been a long, but fulfilling quest. (Also more than half way through nfl, nhl, and 14 nba arenas down as well)

my favorite part has been the planning. Our best quest was 8 games in 8 days. It was real life planes, trains and automobiles. September of 21, we started with a flight to Detroit for a Friday night game. Drove to Cleveland that night for a Saturday game. Drive onto Pittsburg that night for a Sunday day game.

flew subday night to LaGuardia, took the subway to citi field Monday for Mets game. Tuesday morning was a train to Philly to watch them play the cubs (only game we’ve caught a foul ball at). Wednesday morning train to Baltimore for the o’s. 
 

Thursday morning early flight to Atlanta to sit three hours for a rain delay before the game was cancelled. (Went back to Atlanta last year to make up for it,) early Friday morning flew from Atlanta to dc fir nat’s gane. Saturday flight home.

Every city we were in we packed in as many eats and sightseeing as we had time for. Averaged 13k steps a day. And as fun as it was. I’m too old for that shit now. I’d never attempt something that exhausting again.

also, the tigers beat the rays in the first game we saw. The home team lost every other game. 🤷‍♂️ 

 

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That’s great. Good call on the planning.

The closest thing I have to resemble your example was 2017.

Day 1: Fly to Philly. Astros vs Phillies

Day 2: Bus to NYC.

Day 3: Subway to Yankee Stadium. Yankees vs Rays

Day 4: Drive to Cooperstown

Day 5: Hall of Fame induction day (Bagwell, Rock Raines, Pudge Rodriguez, John Schuerholz, f Selig)

Day 6: Drive to Boston. Red Sox vs Indians

Day 7: Fly home 

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I’m up to 20. My ranking (year(s) attended in parentheses)

1 San Diego, Petco Park (2021)

2 Boston, Fenway Park (2017, 2024)

3 Seattle, T-Mobile Park (2023)

4 Detroit, Comerica Park (2023)

5 San Francisco, Oracle Park (2012)

6 Cincinnati, Great American Ballpark (2019)

7 Atlanta, Truist Park (2018, 2019)

8 Minnesota, Target Field (2018)

9 Kansas City, Kaufman Stadium (2019)

10 Houston, Daikin Park (2000-2025)

11 St. Louis, Busch Stadium (2006)

12 New York, Citi Field (2022)

13 Los Angels, Dodger Stadium (2017)

14 Philadelphia, Citizens Bank Park (2017)

15 Washington, Nationals Park (2014)

16 New York, Yankee Stadium (2017, 2019, 2022)

17 Texas, Globe Life Field (2023)

18 Miami, LoanDepot Park (2025)

19 Arizona, Chase Field (2023)

20 Milwaukee, American Family Field (2018)

Honorable mention: Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú

 

Still to go:

Anaheim, Anaheim Stadium

Athletics

Toronto, Rogers Centre

Tampa Bay

Baltimore, Camden Yards

Cleveland, Progressive Field

Chicago, Guaranteed Rate Field

Chicago, Wrigley Field

Pittsburgh, PNC Park

Denver, Coors Field

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