Rickwood Field or any historical (especially non-MLB) ballparks you have visited

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Been to Olympic Stadium, Candlestick, Fenway...also the Launching Pad, but it wasn't so historic as I recall. If I weren't buried in work, I'd drive to Bham this Sunday and try to sneak in with the SABR tour group. I'd be the one with a "HI MY NAME IS STEVE SHASTA, ASK ME ABOUT MY UNCLE MORBS" nametag.

My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Thursday, 5 August 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link

the Qwurph was the Padres' stadium pre-Petco. It was originally named Jack Murphy (aka "the Murph") but then in the age of corporate sponsorship, it was deemed Quaalcom Stadium. you can figure out the rest.

_▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 5 August 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link

ha ahha haha, wmc!

oreo speed wiggum (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 5 August 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link

trip to Rickwood is on for Sunday.

I have been to Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana.

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link

Rickwood is great; I recommend a visit.

I fielded a ball cleanly at short. And Bob Veale, the '60s Pirate flamethrower, showed up.

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 August 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link

five months pass...

via Neyer -- Cleveland somehow ponies up to semi-restore League Park:

http://ballparkdigest.com/201102093538/major-league-baseball/features/clevelands-league-park-once-again-target-for-restoration

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 February 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...
two years pass...

btw, RIP Candlestick. Saw my only game there in '98 -- Will Clark played first for Texas, and it got COLD in the 7th.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN199806260.shtml

eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 03:56 (ten years ago) link

six years pass...

Fell in love with this one as soon as I saw it. pic.twitter.com/f3vxpP9mvr

— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) April 11, 2020

brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 April 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link


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