If
you're looking for specifics on the individual ballparks, my story-based site
might not be what you have in mind (but welcome, and look around anyway!).
Instead, you might check out
one of the following:
Ballparks.com has loads of
information--not only for baseball, but for football, basketball, and hockey
as well.
Joe Mock has put together one
of my favorites at www.baseballparks.com. It has
all of the information of ballparks.com, but adds a lot of opinion, reviews,
and stories. It's usually the first place I check for information.
Rob Skilton's Baseball
Links Page, at http://www.baseball-links.com,
a repository of ballpark and other baseball links,
or the MLB website
for the team and its stadium (if you know the current or future stadium
you're looking for, this is a fine site).
There are several people out there who, like me, are on their own odysseys to get to every
ballpark, and have put their odysseys on-line.
First among
these is
Charlie
O'Reilly's site, which is quite enjoyable and impressive. This
guy is hard-core...he's been to every major league ballpark, countless
retired major league ballparks, and over 200 (!) minor
league parks. The site includes pictures of almost all of them and
commentary about each. It's the gold standard in ballpark
travel.
Would you like to
give a few bucks to a ballpark traveler who's going above and beyond
the call of duty in order to raise money for the Jimmy Fund?
Then visit Cass Sapir's Tour
for the Cure. Cass is going to 180 ballparks in 180 days,
but rather than watching the game (like I would), he's raising money
for kids with cancer. Throw a fellow traveler a few bucks to
help out some kids.
Andrew Clem ranks 63 different stadiums, past and present, including
different incarnations of the same stadium. He has tons of
information about each park.
Swing by
Graham's site.
He's been to a load of major league, minor league, and spring
training parks, and has good taste, good writing, and excellent
photos.
Ditto for Frank Albanese and
his
site.
He also visits the sites of some old ballparks,
including the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field, and has pictures of what
now stands there.
Eric Okurowski is a little behind
me in number of stadiums visited, but I think he's
also quite a bit younger. Lots of really good pictures on Eric's
site,
www.stadiumpage.com,
a couple of which he is
letting me use.
If you have a site about your personal quest to get to
ballparks,
email me.