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So you’re planning a ballpark tour this summer and you’ve got a week to spare? Well, if you haven’t already, be sure to consider one of these top 10 baseball destinations on your list, from north to south, east to west.
Mike Hartman and Aman Dhaddey sat beside the road in the blistering summer heat, feasting on grocery store chicken and trying not to melt into the asphalt.
The whitish Indiana limestone and Deer Isle granite walls of the new Yankee Stadium rise imposingly in the Bronx, a structure meant to awe like a modern Colosseum or perhaps Versailles.
A state assemblyman investigating the financing for the Mets and Yankees new ballparks wants to postpone a vote on additional public bonds for the projects.
The Yankees and Mets are asking the city for $450 million more in public bonds to finance their new ballparks, on top of nearly $1.5 billion they were already granted, according to the city's Economic Development Corp.
Put away those hot dogs, carnivores. Wheat-based cheesesteaks are on the ballpark menu in Philadelphia, the No. 1 vegetarian-friendly stadium in America, according to PETA.
I've long been opposed to the use of public monies to finance Major League ballparks.
A couple of weeks ago I mused that rather than building a new ballpark, maybe the Rays would be better off simply taking a can opener to Tropicana Field, refitting it with grass and a retractable roof, and otherwise making the best of things.
Now that almost every team has built a new stadium in the past 20 years (whether they needed one or whether they did not), some clever folks are speculating what the next generation of ballparks will look like:
Maybe the green peacock on the main NBC Sports page tipped you off, but if not, know that today is Earth Day. Baseball knows it, and they're doing some stuff about it: Happy Earth Day. Everyone is invited to the party.
In my other virtual life, I spend an awful lot of time railing against public financing for ballparks, and in recent months, most of that time was spent opposing the new Marlins' stadium.
MLB Ballpark RatingsEssentially, this is a measure of how satisfied fans are with their hometown ballpark experience. The happiest? Cleveland. Progressive Field, home of the Indians, finished first with Milwaukee's Miller Park a close runner-up.
Calculating Curves: A Statistical Guide to "Nastiness"Cameras have been put into ballparks around Major League Baseball this season to help accumulate data on the break, drop, velocity, wiggle, shift, cut, slide, plane, tumble and veer of pitches.
Smoking in BallparksMLB must join the trend to curb smoking by forcing all the clubs to ban smoking within their ballparks
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