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| View Poll Results: Best ballpark skyline-outfield view? | |||
| Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore |
   
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19 | 13.97% |
| Jacobs Field, Cleveland |
  
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3 | 2.21% |
| PNC Park, Pittsburg |
  
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44 | 32.35% |
| Pac Bell Park, San Francisco |
  
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12 | 8.82% |
| Wrigley Field, Chicago |
  
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8 | 5.88% |
| Fenway Park, Boston |
  
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16 | 11.76% |
| Other |
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34 | 25.00% |
| Voters: 136. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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June 22nd, 2005, 07:58 AM
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Best ballpark skyline view?
Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore is the prototype "throwback" ballpark against which all those that came after are judged. The outfield skyline view and downtown setting shattered the myth that the '70's and '80's style suburban, multipurpose stadiums were the way to go.
The question, is the Camden Yards outfield view still the best, or has another taken its place? Or is one of the old-time stadiums better? Let's hear it! |
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June 22nd, 2005, 08:08 AM
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Do you have any pictures?
Only one I'm familiar with is Atlanta. |
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June 22nd, 2005, 08:21 AM
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dodger stadium has a good skyline view from the parking lot (or the top of the stadium). After all its on a hill that overlooks downtown.
 If the stadium would face the other direction it would be even better |
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June 22nd, 2005, 09:09 AM
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Houston's orange juice stadium has a pretty good view of the skyline itself.
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June 22nd, 2005, 10:07 AM
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[IMG]IMG][IMGhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/micrip/camdenparkmainuse.jpg[/IMG][/IMG]
Here is Oriole Park Dodger Stadium would have a good view if it faced the other way. |
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June 22nd, 2005, 11:06 AM
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muted
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Pittsburgh's PNC Park definitely has the best skyline view:
 
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June 22nd, 2005, 03:18 PM
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PNC number one.
Camden Yards number 2. |
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June 22nd, 2005, 04:54 PM
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Wrigley Field: not really a view of downtown Chicago but there are highrises in the background and Lake Michigan. (I hate the Cubs)
  [IMG]  This is the view from U.S. cellular field (White Sox park) 
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for the Pelasgians, too, were a Greek nation originally from the Peloponnesus The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of Halicarnassus http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...assus/1B*.html Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece". Strabo, VII, Frg. 9 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...ragments*.html But north of the gulf, the first inhabitants are Greeks called Epirotes.... Procopius http://books.google.com/books?id=9m6...page&q&f=false |
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June 22nd, 2005, 05:06 PM
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chicagogeorge--you can see the skyline from Wrigley, you just have to look out the back of the park.
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June 22nd, 2005, 05:30 PM
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I can't believe Detroit's Comerica Park isn't on your list
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June 22nd, 2005, 05:48 PM
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Camden Yards
 Here is micrip's pic: And some more. Probably the most well known accessory to the stadium is the very long warehouse on Eutaw Street    
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June 22nd, 2005, 06:12 PM
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I know.. Samething with the skyline view from White Sox park. The view is from homeplate down the third base line, I just couldn't find any pics of the D/T skyline from that angle at Wrigley. P.S. I'll be at the Sox/Cubs game this Friday  It was freaking hard to get tickets. Go Sox!
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June 22nd, 2005, 06:16 PM
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I was going to say the same thing. Not to boost, but Minute Maid Park honeslty has the ideal view of a skyline from a ballpark. Everytime I think of MM Park, I think of the view. 
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June 22nd, 2005, 06:42 PM
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pittsburgh and detroit really stand out in this department. lots of ballparks have good skyline views from a certain side of the field, or if you look out the back from the upper deck or whatever, but PNC and comerica are specifically sited to give maximum breath-taking skyline views to most of the ballpark. they are perfectly oriented to their respective skylines. PNC gets an ever so slight edge because of the river and those wonderful yellow suspension bridges in the skyline foreground.
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June 22nd, 2005, 07:37 PM
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I know that it isn't major league, but Victory Field in Indy, for the AAA Indianapolis Indians has got a great view...
 
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June 22nd, 2005, 07:57 PM
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June 22nd, 2005, 08:31 PM
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Pittsburgh probably has the best skyline view, but Petco Park in San Diego isn't that bad.
  
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June 22nd, 2005, 08:33 PM
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So far I think Pittsburgh and Detroit have the best views (at least from the pics I've seen)
Camden Yards and Wrigley Field don't really have that great of views. Houston's is nice, but is it only from a certain angle? |
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June 22nd, 2005, 08:35 PM
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Comerica Park; Detroit, Michigan:
    
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June 22nd, 2005, 08:38 PM
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The proposed Twins stadium, which looks likely to pass this year according to some reports will boast a very nice view of downtown. Not only will the view be nice, but it will be right in downtown.
http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/NASAp...park/index.jsp |
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