Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles Dodgers)

I have been to one game at this stadium, back when I was a wee little guy. We sat up high down the first base side. I remember Tim "Rock" Raines hitting a homer for the Expos and Eddie Murray hitting a homer for the Dodgers. What I didn't remember, for some reason, is that Fernando Valenzuela pitched. Seems like that would be way obvious to remember. But I only learned it when I found the box score for this blog post.

And here is the box score:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN199008180.shtml

I encourage you to look at the box score. There are several classic names that played in this game that will bring you down ole' memory lane.

Oakland Coliseum (Oakland A's)

I have attended one game at this stadium. It is the last stadium that is a shared stadium with an NFL team as the Oakland Raiders play their tackle football games here as well. This makes it slightly less enjoyable because it doesn't have quite the same feel as other stadiums have. The field is much further away as you can see from the picture above with the crazy huge foul territory. Balls that would be 10-15 rows deep in the stands at other parks are caught quite easily here. I guess it can lead to some cool running catches by the infielders.

But even if the stadium is not as cool as other stadiums, an MLB game is an MLB game and I enjoyed my time at the ballpark. We went with my brother's family on a Wednesday for dollar dog night. The tickets were like $4.00 each which was great, but parking was like $20.00. There is something wrong when it costs more to park your vehicle than to watch a Major League Baseball game. We sat up high in the right field stands and had a great time even though there was nothing particularly memorable about this game.

But here is the box score: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/y2010/index.jsp?gid=2010_05_05_texmlb_oakmlb_1&mode=classic

Turner Field (Atlanta Braves)

I've been to one game at this stadium and will likely never go again because I have heard that 2016 is the last year for Turner Field.

My sister lived in the Atlanta area and flew me out for a visit right after I got back from my two-year church mission trip. We had plans to attend a particular game, but I looked up who the starting pitchers were and talked my sister into going to the next day's game because Curt Schilling was pitching for the Red Sox. Big mistake. The game we would have gone to was a great game and went into extra innings (with one run scored in both halves of the 10th and concluding with a walk-off homer in the 12th). Our game was fairly uneventful with Schilling shutting down the Braves for an easy 6-1 victory (although it was pretty cool to see Schilling dominate with a CG and 10 K's). But the worst part was that it was on July 3rd and we didn't realize that this was the firework show game in celebration of the Fourth. So the game was completely sold out and we had to bum some super expensive tickets off a guy on the street. Not only that, but the tickets were for some standing room only section. Yes, we had to stand the entire game. We were standing half way up down the first base side. The view was ok and standing wasn't the worst thing ever. It's just that we could have gone to a better game the day before, for less money, and sat throughout the duration (excluding the 7th inning stretch of course). Plus, fireworks are extremely overrated and my sister and I just walked out of the stadium at the end of the game and enjoyed a very traffic-free drive back to her house.

All in all, a baseball game is a baseball game and there is no finer place to be than at the ballpark.

So here is the box score for interested parties:

http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=240703115