re: Nicest MLB stadium you’ve been to?

I have only been to Wrigley, White Sox stadium and Minute Maid. They were all pretty much the same except the area around Wrigley is amazing or was when I was there. I honestly don’t get the hype of nice stadiums outside of a beautiful view of the outside terrain. It’s a seat and you are watching a sporting event. Wrigley was awesome to see in person.

Covid screwed me out of a trip last year...maybe this year will work out...

Number 1 for me is PNC. Beautiful backdrop past CF, fun atmosphere and city.

2. Coors- great to be in the mountains, usually a good crowd, nice stadium

3. St. Louis
4. San Francisco (surprisingly a fun one for us to walk to. Nice atmosphere around there for an afternoon ballgame. Usually great crowds as well)

5. San Diego edges out 6. Seattle for me because surrounding area is a bit more exciting, safe, etc

7. Cleveland - a bit of a darkhorse. One of the older ‘modern retro’ parks. It’s in a style similar to Denver and Baltimore. It’s safer than Baltimore...hoping the city can trend back up like Pittsburgh.

8. Milwaukee
9. Cincinnati
10. Kansas City

Wild card - Wrigley. It’s just so different. The stadium itself isn’t anything spectacular. Walk around the neighborhood pregame, enjoy the weird walkways to get to your bleacher seat (unless those are gone with recent renovation), and relish in the simplicity of a park that doesn’t need all the bells and whistles. It’s hard to compare this to the others. I had a similar experience with Tiger Stadium in Detroit. I wish they would have pumped money into saving it before it was rotting away.

Worst for me:

Oakland had shitty concessions, wasn’t even staffed out by Mt Davis, surrounded by a giant parking lot, and nothing in the concourse was themed in A’s or Raiders colors. I may as well have been at a monster truck show.

Nice but lacking:

Phoenix
Houston
Mets

They are somewhat removed from their city because of those roofs. You feel separate from things unlike places like Pittsburgh, Denver. Houston is too quirky...a little better since they did away with the flag pole and hill in CF.

Surprisingly better than I was anticipating:

Kingdome - M’s games in the mid-late 90’s were badass
Mile High Stadium - inaugural Rockies crowds were unbeatable
White Sox - unfairly shite upon, probably mostly by Cubs fans

The best secret in MLB is the cheap seats in Safeco Field behind the right field foul pole way high up. You get a great view of the beautiful sound? Harbor and also the game at the same time

This view from first base line is neat too. It’s the one stadium where it’s more fun to sit up high than down by the field

This will be hard to decide. Obviously a Cubs fans so making it a point to see them at one of these stadiums. Looks like it's gonna be between PNC, Petco, and AT&T. One of those teams is not like the other. I just don't know how I feel about watching the cubs get killed.

1) PNC
2) Camden
3) Truist
4) Marlins
5) Citi
6) Comerica
7) Nats
8) Yankee

I wouldn't say Wrigley is the nicest by a long shot, but it's my favorite by a long shot. The whole gameday experience of going to a game at Wrigley and pre-gaming/post-gaming in Wrigleyville is fantastic.

As far as nicest the stadium and San Francisco and PNC in Pittsburg IMHO.

I've only been to Comerica and Tropicana, so naturally, Comerica tops the list.

I've been outside Wrigley, but never in the stadium... that is a cool place too.

My ranking of the ones I've been to:

San Fran
Wrigley
Minute Maid
New Yankee Stadium
Coors


Dodger Stadium - DUMP


I've been wanting to go to PNC for a while, but never have a reason to be in that part of the country. Want to go to San Diego as well.

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Whenever these threads pop up, i am always amazed at how nobody has ever been to Progressive Field in Cleveland?

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Because you have to want to go to Cleveland first.

I don’t think you realize how many people visit stl for just baseball. It’s crazy.