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I've only been to three (Fenway, Yankee and Camden Yards) and all three have their perks and quirks but Fenway takes the cake.
Sure it has those pesky obstructed view seats, neck-craning right field seats and you're packed in so close you might as well sit on the person's lap next to you but I think that adds to the mystique of this place. The atmosphere on game day is amazing and the place is so small and intimate you can really feel that. The field dimensions are unique and of course there's Pesky's pole, the lone red seat, and the triangle which can really mess with CFs.
They've done a great job with renovations over the last five years, created the most prized seats in all of sports maybe on top the green monster, and really kept the Fenway tradition alive.
Headed to Wrigley this summer for the first time so I'll have to compare when I get back.
So what's your favorite ballpark?

Fenway Park is one I would love to go to. Among the modern parks, I think Camden Yards and the Giants ballpark are two of the best, with "The Ballpark" in Arlington not far behind.

Among ballparks no longer around I wish I had been able to go to Ebbets Field, The Polo Grounds, and Forbes Field.

Can you tell I am a baseball fan?

Nationals Park is pretty awesome. But then, it's the only baseball stadium I've been to, and it's also brand new.

There's even a gay night at the park for one of the upcoming games. I think it's on June 23rd (I saw some flyers down in DC about it last night). But then, they kind of have to be gay friendly since the city tore down about 5 gay nightclubs/bars where the stadium was built.

I haven't been to Nats stadium yet, but I love Oriole Park... Fenway Way was good, and I've enjoyed my time at other MLB parks as well.

I have only been to Fenway...But come on...it doesnt get any better than that. Go Red Sox!!!!

Citizens Bank Park (Philly), PNC Park (Pittsburgh) or Shea...in that order. haha

Shea?

I don't think I've heard that called a nice ballpark before.

wrigley field is easily the best ball park. it is very small and a lot of fun..before, during, and after the game!

What goes on during a gay day at a baseball game?

I really like the Jake! It has a great atmosphere and did a lot to revitalize downtown Cleveland.

I went to Fenway when I was in Boston last week. I was impressed. The place has a ton of character, very unlike Yankee stadium I thought. Really had a classic ball park feel.

As a rule of thumb, I like to hit the ball park when I travel to new cities so I enjoy great sightlines that capture a feel for the locale. Some good ones that come to mind are Great American (Cincy Reds), Comerica (Detroit Tigers), and even the Ravine (LA Dodgers). I hear the St Louis Card's new place is good for this too.

DCEric saidShea?

I don't think I've heard that called a nice ballpark before.

Please note the eye roll. haha.

Wrigley is a dump. It's old, the concrete is crumbling, the sightlines are bad, the seats are too small, the selection of drinks and food is limited, you pee in a trough (oh wait, some people may enjoy that) and its filled with drunken and semi-drunken collegiate and just out of college types (oh wait, some people may enjoy that, too) who don't really pay attention to the game and the 'fans' are generally unbearable (except for the RJers who like the Cubs - those are the only Cub fans who are OK with me)..

That being said, US Cellular is comfortable and pleasant enough, but not what I'd call a destination spot. I've been to SafeCo and it was nice. I'll go back for the big gay kiss-in. I went to Busch Stadium years ago and all I remember is that it was really really hot, like you could see the heat coming off the turf. I do want to visit the parks in Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cleveland, though.

Camden Yards!!

Adore Fenway and HATE Camden. You should NOT be able to get sushi (and I love sushi) at a frickin' ball park. Just something not right about that!

Of all the current parks I have only been to US Cellular(the Cell). They have made a lot of improvements to the park over the years and I always enjoy going to the games when I can. I do need to get out and visit some of these other ballparks.

Just saw a Milwaukee Brewers game last night against the Diamonbacks at Miller Park. I think this is a great ballpark for enjoying a game for the fans. Lots of amenities for the fans but 2 things stand out. Incredible tailgate parties before the game with unbelievable aromas everywhere with all the grills fired up. Then it started to rain in the 5th inning so the retractable roof was closed and the game went on with no delays.

Fenway defininately has the best atmosphere, the fans are great and knowledgeable. I would pick Camden Yard as the best new park I've been to. I've been to all the stadiums on the east coast, and Coors field in Denver. The worst were the Vet in Philly, RFK in DC, and the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Yankee stadium is cool, but i hate the yankees, Shea is kinda boring as far as stadiums go. I don't like the new Nat's ballpark at all. They built it too fast, didn't design it well, i paid 50 bucks to sit behind third base, i was 25 rows from the field, had to sit sideways to watch the batter, and anytime some body walks down the aisle you can't see...

My home town park of course - Fenway ! Wrigley is awesome too and Camden yards

Just checked out Nationals Park... nice, but no Camden Yards.

That outfield at Minute Maid is atrocious. That pole and hill serve no purpose, just injuries waiting to happen. I wish I could've been there when they decided on that. I'm sure agents steer their big money guys away from the CF in Houston.

Safeco Field

Fenway, of course. Used to live just a few blocks away. I carry a piece of the green monster in my wallet for good luck (took some peeling paint off it back in '87).

They almost tore it down in the late '90s. Then the new ownership came in and decided to upgrade it all over. They've been doing a great job.

As a side, Theo Epstien is the hottest General Manager in sports.

Fenway any other is a distant second and Yankee stadium is dead last.

DCEric saidShea? I don't think I've heard that called a nice ballpark before.

Perhaps not.... but it's my favorite too. First live game there in 1986... what a great time for the Mets!

Fenway by far is the best

Citizens Bank Park -- DUH! We have an awesome view of the city!

this is the view from inside the park

http://phillyskyline.com/misc/wallpaper_080929_cbp1.jpg

fenway park is the best!

ATT Park in San Francisco is amazing! Recently voted Sports Facility of the Year!!!

SAN FRANCISCO -- To honor its versatility, innovation and beauty, AT&T Park was recently chosen as the 2008 Sports Facility of the Year by Sports Business Journal and Sports Business Daily as part of the inaugural Sports Business Awards program.

The first pic I took during a night game there. Kids can slide down the middle of the Coke bottle, the second shows the view of the SF Bay Bridge and bay.

Jacob's Field. And F its new name. Real Clevelanders will always call it the Jake.

Busch Stadium in StL is simply GORGEOUS. I mean, G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S and just has so much that I thought a baseball park would ever have. But, I still love my jake.

Pinny saidJacob's Field. And F its new name. Real Clevelanders will always call it the Jake.

Busch Stadium in StL is simply GORGEOUS. I mean, G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S and just has so much that I thought a baseball park would ever have. But, I still love my jake.

I looked up the new Busch Stadium on the website "Ballparks of Baseball" (for someone reason the URL button did not work), and I agree that it is beautiful, one of the better of the retro-classics. I don't know about anyone else, but I am a bit old fashion when it comes to Baseball. One of its' charms is its' love of the traditional. When the rest of the world is changing at a breakneck speed Baseball continues on like old man river. That is why this latest trend of corporate names on Baseball parks is such a turnoff for me. Progressive Field? What the hell is that. The Skydome in Toronto is now called The Rogers Centre. But everyone still calls it the skydome.

In terms of the newer baseball parks, Cinncinnati's and the White Sox's fields are pretty plain. Although small, Detroit's and Pittsburgh's new fields have a lot of charm.

The new Yankee Stadium is very similar to the old one, except the price is an eye-popping $1.3 billion.

Only been to Fenway, Wrigley, and Yankee.

Fenway, hands down!

The feeling you get when Fenway is like no other. Such a fun park to go to, especially when looking back at the history of the park.

Comerica Park, Detroit

Yay, a thread right up my power alley.

Im a Cubs fan. So my obvious bias is toward Wrigley Field.

To the RJer Sox fan on here (while this may be a few months late).... way to spout out the most biased generalizations about the Cubs Fanbase. Wrigley is amazingly fun. Maybe you just don't enjoy it cause you're a Sox fan?

There are fans at every ballpark that at like the stereotype that you espouse is the archetype Cubs fan.

I've go some generalizations of my own. Sox fans are fairweathered and have a chip on their shoulder. They don't go to games unless the team is in position to win. I remember going to Sox games in 2005 with my friends (cause I'm from the south side) and seeing the games half full.... when they were in 1st place. I also went to a game earlier this season and was heckled by a drunk Sox fan, who was more interested in picking a fight with me than watching his team. Now, are all Sox fans generally like this? No. I'm just tired of the overplayed Cub stereotypes. its mostly untrue.

Anyway, believe it or not, I like the things US Cellular has done to Comiskey. The Cell is pretty nice place to watch a game, mostly cause no one is ever there! (joking) But its a nice park.

Wrigley's more fun though. AT&T Park is amazing, loved the park. Didn't like the traffic. I wanna go visit Fenway one of these days.

Dear cubsfan:

Cool down, OK? I know that not every Wrigley-going Cub fan is a drunken frat boy/sorority girl, but you gotta admit, there's quite a few of them. Are white sox fans perfect? Ha! I'd be the first to agree that a few of them are pretty damned frightening. But I have worked both at wrigley and at a nearby bar [as well as having lived in the 'hood for a few years] and i had way more than my share of those types.

I love baseball, and i don't much mind if someone likes a team i don't care for, but i cannot stand people who go to a game and don't watch it -- they're talking, texting, playing drinking games, picking up other singles, etc. -- and who don't know what is going on, cheer or boo at the wrong times, yell 'balk!' whenever the pitcher sneezes [a particular pet peeve of mine], etc etc. I have friends who are cub fans, and we get along well, as long as it is baseball we talk about and not what park is better.

Wrigley is nice in theory, and i like historic buildings otherwise, but the Cell is a lot better as far as the selection of food and drink, the sightlines, the parking, the wider seats, the wide concourses you hang hang out or walk around on. Outside the park is a different matter, but inside, wrigley really needs a major renovation.

Chase Field Ballpark

Chase spent too much money on that park and other classic parks look better than giant ominous baseball bats.

Coors Field @ Mile High...and I literally had the seats in the mile high aisle. FYI....it's in the nosebleeds. But still cool and an awesome venue. Rockies as the backdrop doesn't hurt the ratings at all.

Comerica Park is nice. Granted it is fairly new. But still great place to see a game. Sat 5th row behind 1st base. On an 80degree day. Not going to complain about the flow of cold beer on that day!

Petco Park in San Diego was brand new when I went. It was Armed Forces night...again, still not complaining! Great place really. Had 20th row behind 3rd. Have lucked out on some good seats.

AT&T in SF. I am giving this the best ratings only because it is on the water. Hands down my favorite place. And again, it might be the water talking So far no complaints at all.

Wrigley. What can you say about Wrigley. It's old, and so are all the amenities. BUT, I love it. People are there to get crazy. And they do. I had a blast, we had upper balcony behind home plate, and I still had a good time. Summer in the city...

And Victory Field here in Indy. We have a Triple-A team, the Indianapolis Indians...and apparently we have one of the nicest parks in the leauge. Have been, sat in a suite and had a blast.

So that's my $.12 worth.

I gotta go with Wrigley. Yeah it's a little beat up but the sightlines are pretty much awesome all around, history, atmosphere, neighborhood. It all adds up to a great afternoon at the park. I'll give a nod to Seattle's (the name escapes me). Saw a game there this past August and liked the overall layout and feel of the place.

Here is one I can't believe no one has mentioned....the top of the list is definitely Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome!



JUST KIDDING!! Although I must say the Twin's new ballpark is going to be amazing.

In all seriousness I think that following places are pretty cool because I've been to them!!

Coors Field



The view of the sunset with the mountains and stadium was unbelievable...priceless!

Wrigley Field...go Cubs!



And a few I hope to someday make it to....

Busch Stadium...I hear the view is pretty sweet.

I always wanted to see a game at Yankee Stadium just to say I had been there.

Fenway is going to become a priority one of these days!

My list could go on and on, so I better stop there!

Frank_AZ said

SamerHussein08 saidChase Field Ballpark


Excuse me, it will allways be known as the "BOB".

(Bank One Ballpark)

Yeah it used to be Bank One, but the Bank One change the name to Chase.

Um...Wrigley...obviously.

Not really sure I can pick a favorite, though I've enjoyed the overall experience both times I've been to Fenway.

I've also been to Yankee Stadium, (old) Busch Stadium, (old) Fulton County Stadium, Turner Field, Minute Maid Park and (old) RFK and U.S. Cellular.

I'm an Astros fan, and everybody else's fans seem to bitch about the flagpole in center field. But it's a good overall stadium. I liked U.S. Cellular a lot too.

Edit: I forgot to mention Coors Field. lol I've been a few times since moving here. I saw the tiebreaker game in '07.

AT&T Ball Park for the San Francisco GIANTS! Rule!

ATT Park is the best - I used to work a block away and could eat my sandwich on my lunch break while watching thru the fence along the bayside for free. Went to plenty of games there, too. Loved them all.

Now I live in Orlando - closest to awful Tropicana Field although I do plan to check out the Rays this season.

holy cow this is my spot. It's one of my goals to see every team's ballpark before I die and I have been to 13/30 so far.

My favorites:
Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs)
Turner Field (Atlanta Braves)

Other good places:
Angel Stadium (Anaheim Angels)
PNC Park (Pittsburgh Pirates)
Great American Ballpark (Cincinnati Reds)
New Busch Stadium (St. Louis Cardinals)
Comerica Park (Detroit Tigers)
Kauffman Stadium (Kansas City Royals)
US Cellular Field (Chicago White Sox)

Not that impressed:
Progressive Field (Cleveland Indians)
Miller Park (Milwaukee Brewers)
Old Yankee Stadium (New York Yankees)

The worst:
Shea Stadium (New York Mets)

17 more to go. Looking forward to the new Minnesota Twins park and making an east coast trip next summer to knock out Camden Yards, Nationals Park and the Bank in Philly.

Old Yankee Stadium!!!!!

Petco Park is the bomb.

I have a soft spot for the dearly departed Tiger Stadium.

Fenway is amazing, but Jacobs Field is still one of the best "new" ballparks...

Fenway & Wrigley are two of my favorites. Among the newer parks, Safeco in Seattle is not so bad.

I had a lot of fun at Royals Stadium when I was a young'un in the Air Force.

The Nationals Park is not so bad, although we couldn't see the out of town scoreboard from our seats in LF. Big minus for that!

Old Comiskey was an absolute shithole. The Homerdome is also one of the worst places I ever caught a game.

Been to quite a few including Wrigley, Fenway. But for my money SF's Pac Bell, or whatever it's called now, is the best.

Shea was a shithole but it was our (Met fans') shithole. Wrigley is the best, though. CBP in Philly is great as is CitiField. Old Yankee was a cathedral despite it being home to the fuckface Yankees.

The all-time worst ever was old Veterans Stadium in Philly.

The Marlins' football stadium is nothing to brag about, although all the well-stocked luxury boxes the day I was there provided lots of free pilfered foods for me as I strolled around innocently before going to my seat.

I'm from Detroit so of course I'm going to say Comerica Park.

Much of this thread sounds like a list of U.S. corporations instead of ballparks.

I did love the old Tigers Stadium as it was the first place I saw a game. Despite all the efforts to save it, I was one glad to see it finally go. Every effort to save it seemed to develop into nothing and there was no sign that this would ever change. There is a popular afterhours club next to it that I used to frequent, and over the years I watched the stadium slowly deteriorate. I hate to see history go, but there was no hope for it. And with all the delays in tearing it down, they missed the chance to develop it into condos and shopping. Not as nice as a ballpark, but at least something in a city that really needed it. At least the afterhours is still there.