@DominicanBall I think each stadium deserves at least 30sec... so it would definitely be longer than 40 min... plus, my attention span is like 15min lol
I grew up with the Rangers in Arlington and back in the day, I can't recall anybody being particularly upset with the stadium. It was hardly beloved and didn't have the allure of the old ballparks, but it had a real grass field, seats relatively close to the action, with plenty of cheap outfield seats that weren't at nosebleed elevation. It was hot as hell, but we were used to that. I went to a few games at he Astrodome and it was nice and cool, but had horrible astroturf and bad mulit-purpose seating layout for baseball. NEver went to a game there, but Seattle's dome was HATED by all if memory serves.
You didn't say where Exhibition stadium was. Jarry Park you mispronounced. You weren't around and probably never were in some of the earlier worsts on this pathetic list. C'mon man.
Sicks was supposed to be expanded to MLB standards but the AL expanded two years sooner than expected because of the NL expansion, I believe. They had no time to fix the ballpark to MLB standards.
Oddly, Kansas City had Municipal Stadium. They discovered that they couldn't add a second deck, so they had to tear it down and rebuild from scratch. It wasn't fancy, but it was decent. They worked triple shifts and finished it in three months. The problem with Sick's Stadium was mostly bad weather, which dragged the work.
Actually MLB was pressured hard by Senator Stuart Symington to put a team in KC quickly after the A's moved to Oakland, so they put the timeline back one year before Seattle was ready. In fact, Sick's was still in the process of being remodeled on Opening day!
@@michaelmapes4119 100% true. Sicks was so bad that it lacked the proper plumbing. The Pilots were working on a deal to get a new stadium anyway. I had also heard the teams began playing 2 years earlier than intended. Thank gawd Bud Selig and Clay Bennet were never really make anything out of the teams they relocated away from Seattle. It's like a curse. Milwaukie's population has not kept up with Seattle and OKC is not really a legit place to have a pro team in the first place. Imagine what will happen to the Thunder if they have a long string of losing seasons.
I know an old dude from Seattle that went to a few games @ Sick's Stadium in 1969! The plumbing was horrible, because the water pressure would not flush the toilets and the stands were made out of cheap wood, amongst other issues. The stadium was built on a hill in a residential neighborhood, which makes it even worse. That's what I was told. Not sure how true this is.
Arlington Stadium was actually a minor league stadium that was designed so it could be easily and inexpensively expanded and upgraded to MLB standards.
@@davidlafleche1142 Arlington Stadium was a tin can. We would beat and stomp the metal floors. I have never been to a more hideous athletic facility. It was like sitting on a skillet. As a child, the stadium was even bad for my families marriage, it was so ghetto. The stadium George Bush built to replace it, " The Ballpark in Arlington" was nice, it had classic features and southwest deco. But Arlington Stadium was a dystopian nightmare out of Madmax, an omen of Judeo American collapse out of the depravity of the 70's.
Being from Montréal and actually analyzing things Olympic stadium wouldn’t be so bad if they would update the interior like Toronto is doing the location isn’t that bad when you factor in its directly connected to the metro your literally 15 min away from downtown
@@maximomorales-jimenez1120 Olympic Stadium is a classic no-win situation. It's costing a fortune to keep it up (even though it's not being used), it would cost a fortune to repair it and it would cost a fortune to tear it down.
Call me crazy, I kinda miss some of the quirky stadiums. I miss old Tiger Stadium in Detroit, I’m 41, being 100% honest when I say it’s a better place for myself to watch a game then their current home Comerica Park. One there is no shade at Comerica Park, way the park is directed so home plate faced the skyline, the sun just destroys you, very few places you can hide. At Tiger Stadium while the polls made some seats obstructed, the positive was the upper deck kept us in the lower deck away from the sun, rain. Also the upper deck at Tiger Stadium last row is closer to the field then first row of upper deck at Comerica Park. So yea any stadium like Exhibition, Sick, Jarry Park, Arlington Stadium with no shade, is a no go. I thought Cleveland Stadium was unique. Most these parks weren’t built with MLB in mind, I know Arlington Stadium was a minor league stadium before the second incarnation of the Washington Senators moved there. Oakland Coliseum was a decent place before Mount Davis was added in 1996. Had a view of the mountains, funny both Oakland Coliseum and Angel Stadium built around same time, Athletics add football seats in 1996 to accommodate the Raiders while the Angels eliminated all the football seats after the Rams left for St. Louis in 1995, the renovation at then Anaheim Stadium was in 1997, completed in 1998.
OMG! How could you put Sahlen Field on this list? It is a beautiful stadium that could have been expanded had Buffalo gotten an MLB team. BTW, the pic you are showing at 12:04 is TD Ballpark in Florida not Sahlen Field. And on a sidenote, if Buffalo had an MLB team they would easily outdraw Miami, Tampa, Oakland and at least half the other MLB cities.
Locals still call it Pilot Field. Some of the info in the video was very inaccurate. I don't know why a AAA team's field was even in this list. And that facility is held in high regard.
If more research was done for this video in regards to Exhibition Stadium, it would have made for a better video using more accurate data. Exhibition Stadium was formerly the CNE Grandstand. It was not a stadium at all until MLB expansion in 1977. The Grandstand was a 1/3 mile oval track for professional stock car racing. All other tenants came later. Exhibition Stadium (1977-1989) was not a multi-purpose stadium. It was a converted facility. It was not even a stadium at all until the 1977 add-on. I see the same errors in all of these videos. Why make no attempt to research the origin of The CNE Grandstand? I get it, the creator wasn't born yet, but some facts are just not present in these videos in regards to Exhibition Stadium and some of the comments are just as inaccurate as the video. Love this channel but we really should be making more accurate statements and not repeating the same false info time and time again. I get it, this creator doesn't read the comments for his videos, but if he did he would learn a thing or two and would have the ability to expand on that with more accurate and fresher commentary. Exhibition Stadium was not a CFL stadium and it was never designed for the Toronto Argonauts. The Argos were a part-time tenant of the CNE Grandstand (and later Exhibition Stadium) and they played as guests in the infield of the stock car track. When the Blue Jays came along, Exhibition Stadium was shared with the Toronto Argos. The Toronto Argonauts were never the primary tenant of any facility until they relocated from Skydome to Varsity Stadium on U of T campus near Bloor and St George. The Argos have since moved to BMO Field on the former site of Exhibition Stadium where they are the secondary tenant. *** EASTER EGG ALERT *** Home plate and the three bases are preserved in the South parking lot at BMO Field. Two sets of seats from Exhibition Stadium are 200 meters East of that same location (on a seasonal basis), directly North of the first of 3 pedestrian bridges that cross Lakeshore Boulevard. Exhibition Stadium did not belong to a CFL team at any time. Their average capacity was only ever 1500-3000 people and that is why they moved to the college stadium at Varsity.
BAD, but not the "worst" stadium if you were a fan, but it WAS if you were a player...my "home"; Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. Cookie-cutter, artificial turf, was SO bad the Ravens/Eagles once postponed an EXHIBITION game because the field was unfit. Infield cutouts covered by wood and turf, couldn't properly fit the seams and risked players health. And this was 2001, it would be another 3 years before the Phillies moved to CBP.
Sick’s stadium - sounds bad. Would be nice to know who played there. Same with Exhibition Stadium - at least we know how long “they” played there. Arlington stadium - well, we’re told it’s in Texas, so we can narrow it down…
You forgot the Baker Bowl of the 1930s! You should do a video of all the interesting fascinating things (midget auto racing!) that were done with it after the Phillies left it after 1938 as it stuck around for several more years until 1950.
I would say that Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium would have been the candidate for worst in both the 1950s and 1960s: both decades due to the condition of the facility and the crumbling North Philadelphia neighborhood it was located in (of which the Baker Bowl was only a few blocks east at N. Broad & Lehigh). In fact, several AL teams (when the A's were still under the ownership of the Mack Family) were close to outright refusing to play games against the A's at Shibe, eventually leading to the Mack Family to be forced to sell the A's, of which the team was then moved to Kansas City (and with their later departure to Oakland, lead to Sick's Stadium taking worst of the 1960s as Senator Stuart Symington, whose state - Missouri, where the A's played - suffered from the move of the A's to Oakland, and as such, threatened to introduce legislation to strip MLB of it's anti-trust exemption status, unless the KC Royals were allowed to play in 1969, which due to issues of an unbalanced schedule, the AL was forced to field the Seattle Pilots, now the Milwaukee Brewers, to play as well). Thankfully, the Phillies, despite the prospects of building a new baseball-only stadium either at the Garden State Racetrack in Cherry Hill, NJ (due to NJ's relaxed liquor and alcohol laws) or above the railroad yard at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia's University City (near where the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles played their home games at the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field), would stay at Connie Mack Stadium long enough until 1970, after which, the team (along with the Eagles) would move to the "cookie cutter" Veterans Memorial Stadium at the South Philadelphia Sports Complex for the 1971 MLB Season, remaining there long after the team moved to neighboring Citizens Bank Park (and the Eagles, before the Phillies, moving to Lincoln Financial Field across Patterson Ave. from CBP).
Olympic Stadium in Montreal should be on this list. When I visited it in 2002 to see the Expos, the stadium was literally falling apart. The roof structure was a joke and suffered through many rips and tears. It was like watching baseball in a cavern, but what fans there were extremely passionate about their team. I attended a Friday night game with around 9,000 people and it sounded like 40,000. The stadium is one of the most expensive stadiums of all time at $1.4 Billion US and was finally paid off 30 years after being built. It was affectionately referred to as the Big Owe.
I loved Arlington Stadium. It was minor league, but that’s what made it fun. Imagine an MLB game at a double A or triple A stadium. It was so intimate and fun.
As a tigers fan it’s still depressing that they didn’t try and renovate old tiger stadium, of the 5 stadiums I’ve seen seen games in, comerica is by far the absolute worst
Other than the stupidity of tearing down Yankee Stadium, Tiger/Briggs Stadium not getting rebuilt is a criminal shame. Not renovating Comisky Park could be debatable, but Tiger Stadium was restorable.
Colt Stadium is a close second in the 1960’s. A very small and hot ballpark with a ton of mosquitoes. Games had to be played in the late evening due to the heat. Sicks was still much worse though.
Colt Stadium should be named "Cult" stadium, because you had to be a dedicated, somewhat deranged fan to actually want to go to those games. I think every mosquito in the southern U.S. vacationed in Houston every June-August during the Colt seasons.
The Coliseum field is significantly smaller now because the running track has been removed, 14 additional rows of seats added and the filed lowered. Maybe they can play a game there when the track is restored for the olympics.
When you talked about Exhibition Stadium it would have been nice if you had also mentioned where it was located and who played there. I Had to scroll the comments to find out. (Toronto Bluejays)
The Polo Grounds? Seriously? Pick a decade. Right. Like the Olympic Stadium was an upgrade from Jarry. You don't even bother to explain WHY RFK was bad. (It was, but you never say why.)
No list of worst stadiums could be without Candlestick Park home of the SF Giants from 1960 to 1999. They literally would draw in the hundreds (sub 1000) consistently some years per game. It was freezing cold in the summer putting the stadium at Candlestick point with wind and water surrounding it. Oh then came the night games with wet fog added to the mix. The foul ground was huge (like Oakland). You had to pee in troughs. Right field was closed off because those seats where pushed in for football. Walking through the hallways to concessions, it was like a 20 MPH cold wind draft in there. Cold and windy baseball and have a stadium accent those characteristics was really bad.
Cleveland Municipal Stadium was actually built to house the Cleveland Rams, but they relocated to LA soon after, so the Indians moved in. The AAFC/NFL Browns also played there
Yeah, Arlington Stadium was originally "Turnpike Stadium," home of the AAA DFW Spurs for many years before it was "adapted" to MLB for the Rangers. Look, I'll never argue that it wasn't a s-hole but i can tell you there wasn't a bad seat in the house. So it did have that going for it.
Pilot Field in Buffalo is the true first "retro" baseball stadium. Years before Camden Yards, and built by the same architectural firm that did Camden. It was built to then-MLB standards, can be expanded easily (we were a target market when the Rockies came on), and those games for the Blue Jays were sold out at the 16,000 it currently holds.
The Dodgers were in the Mausoleum for 4 seasons, not 3. The Expos were in Parc Jarry for 8 seasons, not 7 (69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76). Had you gone back to the 30's you could've picked Baker Bowl, which even back then was described as a "Cancer Pit".
Very good! Jarry Park was the English name, but en Français it is Parc Jarry. A Montréal-native friend of mine set the record straight on its name. It was a terrible baseball stadium and the whole Expos franchise was not served well by its replacement, Stade au Parc Olympique, with its cavernous size and later concrete falling and roof shredding to just brutal cold early and late season.
The old KC municipal stadium that the 80s played in from 1955 to 1966 was without a doubt the worst major league baseball stadium in history. It was located in the most rundown section of Kansas City and was formally the park for the minor league, Kansas City, blues. It had almost no parking, the park was a rundown dilapidated mess. Obviously, the author of this video never saw the place. By the way, the LA Coliseum drew almost 100,000 per Dodgers 4 games in the 1959 Dodgers White Sox World Series. No series has drawn more in MLB history.
For the 1960s, Colt Stadium of the Houston Colt 45s was just as bad as Sicks Stadium. Sicks wins by virtue of a tie-breaking lousy name😅. Old Wrigley Field in Hollywood (site where they filmed the TV show Home Run Derby) was better than either of these sites as it was home of the PCL Hollywood Stars
Arlington Stadium shouldn't count for the 90s as it was built in the 70s. The Rangers follow-up stadium should, however (The Ballpark in Arlington) as it had many of the same issues.
Exhibition Stadium had one saving grace. If you were there during a storm, you could see the CN Tower get repeatedly hit with lightning and hear the whole stadium react with each hit; especially if the Jays weren't doing so well. :)
No NFL in Canada bud so how could it be an NFL stadium but it was built for the Toronto Argos of the CFL we now need a new stadium just built for baseball the Rogers Center is garbage and always was even in the Sky Dome days Rogers who know own the Jays and the Stadium and just sunk millions into it for a refit but it still sucks even worse then what it was before the update waste of money.
Citing LA Coliseum is ridiculous. It was just a makeshift home for the Dodgers when they relocated to Los Angeles while Dodger Stadium was still being completed
You stated that Sick's Stadium was only used while they were waiting for the Astrodome to be finished. Are you and your quirky facts and voice for real???
This video is heavily padded, with the host constantly repeating the same points over and over, repeatedly telling us how many years it was used, when it was used, what team played there, the fact that the stadium was a stay-dee-um, and the fact that it was bad. Actual time spent telling us why it was bad is more limited. This video probably could have been done in half the time if it had been written more tersely.
i would have gone with miami in the 90’s. dont talk shit on sahleen park, its one of the better minor league parks and built with the option to add another level if they were selected as an expansion franchise in 93. the field. dimensions in buffalo are similar to chase field, so the offensive exposition must have been at the spring training facility.
This was really good and you checked all the boxes for worst stadiums I could remember. There is one stadium which deserves an honorable mention: The Metrodome in Minneapolis. Remember the outfield fence was some kind of plastic material that Al Michaels humorously described as a “baggie” during the Twins World Series appearance.
I was surprised it didn't make the list. The sightlines were horrible for baseball (along the 1st base line was okay everywhere else sucked). The concourses were about 8 feet wide. As a Minnesotan I loved it though. It was a dump, but it was our dump.
I still think it's unfortunate that a team as good as the Rays have been in recent years have to play in such a crap stadium. It kind of reminds me of the Mariners in the mid to late 90s: A really great team that plays in a dump of a stadium. Here's to the hope that the Rays get a good stadium soon, their fans really deserve it.
@@jcarwash31 So it has catwalks. So what? Lots of ballparks had odd quirks like that. Baseball is the only sport in which architecture had an influence on the game. The only exceptions were the "cookie cutter" stadiums, all of which were bland and boring.
@davidlafleche1142 Quirks are one thing, but those catwalks come into play way too often. It's the only park that has ever had ground rules stating if the ball hits certain objects it's a homerun. Miguel Sano once blasted a ball off the B ring that would have been a HR, but got a double instead. It's not exactly charming otherwise. It's an '80s built dome only 8 years newer than the Metrodome. The Metrodome was fine for baseball. Occasionally a ball would hit a speaker or the roof would give a fielder some trouble, but nothing like the Trop.
The minor league park in Buffalo actually hosted games with fans in 2021. It took until July that year before the Blue Jays were finally allowed back in Canada. It was a unique opportunity for Western New York residents because they don't have an MLB team, and I don't see them as being in contention for an expansion franchise. The Rays have been stuck with Tropicana since they were founded in 1998, and it was a hand-me-down even back then. They've threatened to relocate if they don't get a new stadium. The problem with the Florida teams is that while the state has grown in population in recent years, those new residents largely stick with their old teams from where they came from. They have poor attendance, and you'll always see lots of fans of the opposing team at their games. The Marlins have a similar issue, but they have a new stadium, so they aren't going anywhere. The possibility of the A's and Rays relocating is what is keeping an expansion to 32 teams from being immanent, even though it's been approved by the player's association. While it's pretty much a done deal that the A's are going to Las Vegas, things are still up in the air for the Rays, and they don't want to put an expansion franchise in a city that the Rays might want to relocate to.
Good choices. I would suggest 1940s - Cleveland's two-headed monster of League Park and Municipal Stadium should BOTH be cited here. 1950s - Griffith Stadium is the correct answer because it was still segregated 1960s - agree that it's either Sick's or Colt, pick one. Polo Grounds was in ROUGH shape by 1962 as well. 1970s - Exhibition was better than nothing, but just barely 1980s - hate to do this, but Comiskey desperately needed either massive renovation or replacement by the 1980s. 1990s - KingDome was in a deplorable state of disrepair for something that opened in 1976. 2000s - Stade Olympique was so bad that RFK was an upgrade. 2010s - Busch Stadium III - EVERYTHING about it is done half-assed. People who say they like it have never been to a game there. 2020s - Oakland Coliseum - like Comiskey, it had a glorious past but was "the worst" at the very end of its life cycle.
You lost me at Busch Stadium. The previous Busch Stadium was a concrete ashtray. The current Busch Stadium is an improvement. You shouldn't say that to a Cards fan.
I've heard that as well, but I think it's been debunked. LA had been awarded the 1932 Summer Olympics long before Cleveland broke ground on Municipal Stadium.
No, that's a myth. Cleveland was not even trying to get the Olympics. But the city was way ahead of its time, building the first true multi-purpose stadium (not perfect for baseball, but perhaps half of the seats were good). They correctly anticipated that football would want a huge, 80,000 seat facility, and the "horseshoe" design actually worked better for both sports than the "cookie cutters." (Memorial Stadium in Baltimore used the same idea, but smaller.)
I don’t know DG I think Angels Stadium is worse than the Trop. Tropicana Field is at least indoors and has some charm to it, and the seating configuration is made for baseball which angels stadium isn’t
Actually, it is. When it was built in 1966, it was designed solely for baseball. It actually looked better, too, with the Big A in left field. The Rams ruined it when they moved in. They should have kept the scoreboard where it was. It was a terrible football stadium. The sightlines were all wrong.
It would be chaotic but cool if you ranked every MLB stadium in history since 1900.
That would definitely be a 12pt series with each decade being a video
@@IgnoretheButter If he gives a short summary, he can maybe make it in like 40 minutes. I counted all and there have been 89 stadiums since 1900.
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video essay
@DominicanBall I think each stadium deserves at least 30sec... so it would definitely be longer than 40 min... plus, my attention span is like 15min lol
I grew up with the Rangers in Arlington and back in the day, I can't recall anybody being particularly upset with the stadium. It was hardly beloved and didn't have the allure of the old ballparks, but it had a real grass field, seats relatively close to the action, with plenty of cheap outfield seats that weren't at nosebleed elevation. It was hot as hell, but we were used to that. I went to a few games at he Astrodome and it was nice and cool, but had horrible astroturf and bad mulit-purpose seating layout for baseball. NEver went to a game there, but Seattle's dome was HATED by all if memory serves.
The LA Coliseum should not be counted since it was never meant to be a permanent home.
You didn't say where Exhibition stadium was. Jarry Park you mispronounced. You weren't around and probably never were in some of the earlier worsts on this pathetic list. C'mon man.
The tongue and lip smacking you are doing is grating
I didn't watch yet. Exhibition Stadium in Toronto (1980's) better be on this list.
Exhibition stadium was a dump. The Blue Jays had it rough.
Milwaukee County Stadium was an absolute dump. Attended many games there.
Is this guy related to Christopher Walken?
I finally figured out who he reminds me of--Dana Carvey impersonating George H.W. Bush.
Sicks was supposed to be expanded to MLB standards but the AL expanded two years sooner than expected because of the NL expansion, I believe. They had no time to fix the ballpark to MLB standards.
Oddly, Kansas City had Municipal Stadium. They discovered that they couldn't add a second deck, so they had to tear it down and rebuild from scratch. It wasn't fancy, but it was decent. They worked triple shifts and finished it in three months. The problem with Sick's Stadium was mostly bad weather, which dragged the work.
Actually MLB was pressured hard by Senator Stuart Symington to put a team in KC quickly after the A's moved to Oakland, so they put the timeline back one year before Seattle was ready. In fact, Sick's was still in the process of being remodeled on Opening day!
@@michaelmapes4119 100% true.
Sicks was so bad that it lacked the proper plumbing. The Pilots were working on a deal to get a new stadium anyway. I had also heard the teams began playing 2 years earlier than intended.
Thank gawd Bud Selig and Clay Bennet were never really make anything out of the teams they relocated away from Seattle. It's like a curse. Milwaukie's population has not kept up with Seattle and OKC is not really a legit place to have a pro team in the first place. Imagine what will happen to the Thunder if they have a long string of losing seasons.
I know an old dude from Seattle that went to a few games @ Sick's Stadium in 1969! The plumbing was horrible, because the water pressure would not flush the toilets and the stands were made out of cheap wood, amongst other issues. The stadium was built on a hill in a residential neighborhood, which makes it even worse. That's what I was told. Not sure how true this is.
Arlington Stadium was actually a minor league stadium that was designed so it could be easily and inexpensively expanded and upgraded to MLB standards.
Arlington Stadium and Jarry Park were not that bad. The main issue was the weather.
I grew up going to Arlington Stadium. It was hideous, horrible, but as Texans we thought we were tough, and thought we didn't deserve better.
@@davidlafleche1142 you are thinking of "The Ballpark in Arlington," that was built after Arlington stadium.
@@jls0037cslewis1 Perhaps both. Arlington Stadium's only serious issue was scorching hot weather. But at least it wasn't used for football too often.
@@davidlafleche1142 Arlington Stadium was a tin can. We would beat and stomp the metal floors. I have never been to a more hideous athletic facility. It was like sitting on a skillet. As a child, the stadium was even bad for my families marriage, it was so ghetto. The stadium George Bush built to replace it, " The Ballpark in Arlington" was nice, it had classic features and southwest deco. But Arlington Stadium was a dystopian nightmare out of Madmax, an omen of Judeo American collapse out of the depravity of the 70's.
I would put Montreal's Olympic Stadium as a honorable, or in this case, a dishonorable mention.
Olympic was worse than Exhibition Stadium IMO.
Yeah Olympic stadium is garbage but exhibition is much worse
Being from Montréal and actually analyzing things Olympic stadium wouldn’t be so bad if they would update the interior like Toronto is doing the location isn’t that bad when you factor in its directly connected to the metro your literally 15 min away from downtown
@@maximomorales-jimenez1120 Olympic Stadium is a classic no-win situation. It's costing a fortune to keep it up (even though it's not being used), it would cost a fortune to repair it and it would cost a fortune to tear it down.
Arlington Park looks like a generic baseball stadium drawn for The Simpsons
Perfect description lmao
How bout that local sports team?
Never attended a night game at Candlestick apparently.
It’s all about aesthetics
Call me crazy, I kinda miss some of the quirky stadiums. I miss old Tiger Stadium in Detroit, I’m 41, being 100% honest when I say it’s a better place for myself to watch a game then their current home Comerica Park. One there is no shade at Comerica Park, way the park is directed so home plate faced the skyline, the sun just destroys you, very few places you can hide. At Tiger Stadium while the polls made some seats obstructed, the positive was the upper deck kept us in the lower deck away from the sun, rain. Also the upper deck at Tiger Stadium last row is closer to the field then first row of upper deck at Comerica Park. So yea any stadium like Exhibition, Sick, Jarry Park, Arlington Stadium with no shade, is a no go. I thought Cleveland Stadium was unique. Most these parks weren’t built with MLB in mind, I know Arlington Stadium was a minor league stadium before the second incarnation of the Washington Senators moved there. Oakland Coliseum was a decent place before Mount Davis was added in 1996. Had a view of the mountains, funny both Oakland Coliseum and Angel Stadium built around same time, Athletics add football seats in 1996 to accommodate the Raiders while the Angels eliminated all the football seats after the Rams left for St. Louis in 1995, the renovation at then Anaheim Stadium was in 1997, completed in 1998.
Comerica will definitely be the worst MLB stadium in the 2030's
You're crazy
OMG! How could you put Sahlen Field on this list? It is a beautiful stadium that could have been expanded had Buffalo gotten an MLB team. BTW, the pic you are showing at 12:04 is TD Ballpark in Florida not Sahlen Field. And on a sidenote, if Buffalo had an MLB team they would easily outdraw Miami, Tampa, Oakland and at least half the other MLB cities.
Locals still call it Pilot Field. Some of the info in the video was very inaccurate.
I don't know why a AAA team's field was even in this list. And that facility is held in high regard.
If more research was done for this video in regards to Exhibition Stadium, it would have made for a better video using more accurate data.
Exhibition Stadium was formerly the CNE Grandstand. It was not a stadium at all until MLB expansion in 1977. The Grandstand was a 1/3 mile oval track for professional stock car racing.
All other tenants came later.
Exhibition Stadium (1977-1989) was not a multi-purpose stadium. It was a converted facility. It was not even a stadium at all until the 1977 add-on.
I see the same errors in all of these videos. Why make no attempt to research the origin of The CNE Grandstand? I get it, the creator wasn't born yet, but some facts are just not present in these videos in regards to Exhibition Stadium and some of the comments are just as inaccurate as the video.
Love this channel but we really should be making more accurate statements and not repeating the same false info time and time again.
I get it, this creator doesn't read the comments for his videos, but if he did he would learn a thing or two and would have the ability to expand on that with more accurate and fresher commentary.
Exhibition Stadium was not a CFL stadium and it was never designed for the Toronto Argonauts.
The Argos were a part-time tenant of the CNE Grandstand (and later Exhibition Stadium) and they played as guests in the infield of the stock car track. When the Blue Jays came along, Exhibition Stadium was shared with the Toronto Argos.
The Toronto Argonauts were never the primary tenant of any facility until they relocated from Skydome to Varsity Stadium on U of T campus near Bloor and St George.
The Argos have since moved to BMO Field on the former site of Exhibition Stadium where they are the secondary tenant.
*** EASTER EGG ALERT *** Home plate and the three bases are preserved in the South parking lot at BMO Field. Two sets of seats from Exhibition Stadium are 200 meters East of that same location (on a seasonal basis), directly North of the first of 3 pedestrian bridges that cross Lakeshore Boulevard.
Exhibition Stadium did not belong to a CFL team at any time. Their average capacity was only ever 1500-3000 people and that is why they moved to the college stadium at Varsity.
arlington stadium was not bad...close to the action
make a video about Rungrado Stadium in North Korea
The coliseum has an AAAWFUL renovation it’s still a rundown leaky old dump
I loved Cleveland Municipal Stadium. I saw 100's of baseball games there.
The dump in St petersburg is the worst ever
BAD, but not the "worst" stadium if you were a fan, but it WAS if you were a player...my "home"; Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. Cookie-cutter, artificial turf, was SO bad the Ravens/Eagles once postponed an EXHIBITION game because the field was unfit. Infield cutouts covered by wood and turf, couldn't properly fit the seams and risked players health. And this was 2001, it would be another 3 years before the Phillies moved to CBP.
This guy talks like Ron DeSantis 💀
Maybe it is Ron DeSantis with an alias name.
I disagree with you on the 2000s. It seems to me that Sun Life Stadium, or whatever it was called, was worse than RFK Stadium.
Sick’s stadium - sounds bad. Would be nice to know who played there.
Same with Exhibition Stadium - at least we know how long “they” played there.
Arlington stadium - well, we’re told it’s in Texas, so we can narrow it down…
You forgot the Baker Bowl of the 1930s! You should do a video of all the interesting fascinating things (midget auto racing!) that were done with it after the Phillies left it after 1938 as it stuck around for several more years until 1950.
I would say that Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium would have been the candidate for worst in both the 1950s and 1960s: both decades due to the condition of the facility and the crumbling North Philadelphia neighborhood it was located in (of which the Baker Bowl was only a few blocks east at N. Broad & Lehigh). In fact, several AL teams (when the A's were still under the ownership of the Mack Family) were close to outright refusing to play games against the A's at Shibe, eventually leading to the Mack Family to be forced to sell the A's, of which the team was then moved to Kansas City (and with their later departure to Oakland, lead to Sick's Stadium taking worst of the 1960s as Senator Stuart Symington, whose state - Missouri, where the A's played - suffered from the move of the A's to Oakland, and as such, threatened to introduce legislation to strip MLB of it's anti-trust exemption status, unless the KC Royals were allowed to play in 1969, which due to issues of an unbalanced schedule, the AL was forced to field the Seattle Pilots, now the Milwaukee Brewers, to play as well).
Thankfully, the Phillies, despite the prospects of building a new baseball-only stadium either at the Garden State Racetrack in Cherry Hill, NJ (due to NJ's relaxed liquor and alcohol laws) or above the railroad yard at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia's University City (near where the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles played their home games at the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field), would stay at Connie Mack Stadium long enough until 1970, after which, the team (along with the Eagles) would move to the "cookie cutter" Veterans Memorial Stadium at the South Philadelphia Sports Complex for the 1971 MLB Season, remaining there long after the team moved to neighboring Citizens Bank Park (and the Eagles, before the Phillies, moving to Lincoln Financial Field across Patterson Ave. from CBP).
Where is Exhibition Stadium? Get your game together.
Oh, that voice.
La coliseum renovation is horrible. Its like "Mt Usc" on a landmark .
Guaranteed Rate Field, not Guaranteed Rate Park.
Exhibition Stadium (Toronto Blue Jays) came within one win (and had a 3-1 game lead)to hosting the 1985 World Series.
2000s: Right franchise, wrong ballpark. Olympic Stadium is leagues worse than RFK.
Olympic Stadium in Montreal should be on this list. When I visited it in 2002 to see the Expos, the stadium was literally falling apart. The roof structure was a joke and suffered through many rips and tears. It was like watching baseball in a cavern, but what fans there were extremely passionate about their team. I attended a Friday night game with around 9,000 people and it sounded like 40,000. The stadium is one of the most expensive stadiums of all time at $1.4 Billion US and was finally paid off 30 years after being built. It was affectionately referred to as the Big Owe.
Great comment and I remember it well. It seemed so dimly lit on TV and the Astroturf field was atrocious as well.
I was there once and the thing I remember most was the weird curved blue and yellow seats!
Good EXCEPT you never said where Exhibition stadium was or who played there!
I loved Arlington Stadium. It was minor league, but that’s what made it fun. Imagine an MLB game at a double A or triple A stadium. It was so intimate and fun.
As a tigers fan it’s still depressing that they didn’t try and renovate old tiger stadium, of the 5 stadiums I’ve seen seen games in, comerica is by far the absolute worst
Other than the stupidity of tearing down Yankee Stadium, Tiger/Briggs Stadium not getting rebuilt is a criminal shame. Not renovating Comisky Park could be debatable, but Tiger Stadium was restorable.
Not that Skydome is much better, but I agree. Comerica is deep and cavernous. Not much atmosphere
Colt Stadium is a close second in the 1960’s. A very small and hot ballpark with a ton of mosquitoes. Games had to be played in the late evening due to the heat. Sicks was still much worse though.
Colt Stadium should be named "Cult" stadium, because you had to be a dedicated, somewhat deranged fan to actually want to go to those games. I think every mosquito in the southern U.S. vacationed in Houston every June-August during the Colt seasons.
The Coliseum field is significantly smaller now because the running track has been removed, 14 additional rows of seats added and the filed lowered. Maybe they can play a game there when the track is restored for the olympics.
When you talked about Exhibition Stadium it would have been nice if you had also mentioned where it was located and who played there. I Had to scroll the comments to find out. (Toronto Bluejays)
It's ' Blue Jays' not " Bluejays ".
Thank you
The Polo Grounds? Seriously? Pick a decade.
Right. Like the Olympic Stadium was an upgrade from Jarry.
You don't even bother to explain WHY RFK was bad. (It was, but you never say why.)
Oakland I'm shocked 😊
You do not tell us where 'Exhibition Stadium' is located. What city?
Toronto.
No list of worst stadiums could be without Candlestick Park home of the SF Giants from 1960 to 1999. They literally would draw in the hundreds (sub 1000) consistently some years per game. It was freezing cold in the summer putting the stadium at Candlestick point with wind and water surrounding it. Oh then came the night games with wet fog added to the mix. The foul ground was huge (like Oakland). You had to pee in troughs. Right field was closed off because those seats where pushed in for football. Walking through the hallways to concessions, it was like a 20 MPH cold wind draft in there. Cold and windy baseball and have a stadium accent those characteristics was really bad.
Metrodome in Minneapolis ought to be a close contender for worst stadium in the 90s-00s. That place was a total dump
Cleveland Municipal Stadium was actually built to house the Cleveland Rams, but they relocated to LA soon after, so the Indians moved in. The AAFC/NFL Browns also played there
Yeah, Arlington Stadium was originally "Turnpike Stadium," home of the AAA DFW Spurs for many years before it was "adapted" to MLB for the Rangers. Look, I'll never argue that it wasn't a s-hole but i can tell you there wasn't a bad seat in the house. So it did have that going for it.
Municipal Stadium in Cleveland was so large because they were bidding for the 1932 Olympics, and lost to L. A.
Pilot Field in Buffalo is the true first "retro" baseball stadium. Years before Camden Yards, and built by the same architectural firm that did Camden. It was built to then-MLB standards, can be expanded easily (we were a target market when the Rockies came on), and those games for the Blue Jays were sold out at the 16,000 it currently holds.
I dunno the tarps are the best feature of Oakland coliseum
Have to agree, the tarps are certainly more useful and necessary apparently than the restrooms...
The Dodgers were in the Mausoleum for 4 seasons, not 3. The Expos were in Parc Jarry for 8 seasons, not 7 (69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76).
Had you gone back to the 30's you could've picked Baker Bowl, which even back then was described as a "Cancer Pit".
Very good! Jarry Park was the English name, but en Français it is Parc Jarry. A Montréal-native friend of mine set the record straight on its name. It was a terrible baseball stadium and the whole Expos franchise was not served well by its replacement, Stade au Parc Olympique, with its cavernous size and later concrete falling and roof shredding to just brutal cold early and late season.
Yeah, I was thinking of the Baker Bowl too. Too small and too unsafe.
Minnesotas old Met stadium has to be in it back in the 60's & 70's and Metrodome in the 80's & 90's
How's about good minor league stadiums.... Most minors are rough. But some are made rough.. Myrtle pelicans..... Check her out!
You could use the minor league park the As are playing in for the next 3 years for your 2020s park
The old KC municipal stadium that the 80s played in from 1955 to 1966 was without a doubt the worst major league baseball stadium in history. It was located in the most rundown section of Kansas City and was formally the park for the minor league, Kansas City, blues. It had almost no parking, the park was a rundown dilapidated mess. Obviously, the author of this video never saw the place. By the way, the LA Coliseum drew almost 100,000 per Dodgers 4 games in the 1959 Dodgers White Sox World Series. No series has drawn more in MLB history.
For the 1960s, Colt Stadium of the Houston Colt 45s was just as bad as Sicks Stadium. Sicks wins by virtue of a tie-breaking lousy name😅. Old Wrigley Field in Hollywood (site where they filmed the TV show Home Run Derby) was better than either of these sites as it was home of the PCL Hollywood Stars
Arlington Stadium shouldn't count for the 90s as it was built in the 70s. The Rangers follow-up stadium should, however (The Ballpark in Arlington) as it had many of the same issues.
Exhibition Stadium had one saving grace. If you were there during a storm, you could see the CN Tower get repeatedly hit with lightning and hear the whole stadium react with each hit; especially if the Jays weren't doing so well. :)
Everytime I see that picture of Arlington Stadium I think it's a drawing
No NFL in Canada bud so how could it be an NFL stadium but it was built for the Toronto Argos of the CFL we now need a new stadium just built for baseball the Rogers Center is garbage and always was even in the Sky Dome days Rogers who know own the Jays and the Stadium and just sunk millions into it for a refit but it still sucks even worse then what it was before the update waste of money.
CLE Stadium was built to try to attract the Olympics in 1932 or 1936 -- That's why so gargantuan
Parc Jarry was terrible, but having watched a number of games played there, I would have picked Candlestick.
Arlington Stadium was the worst baseball facility I have visited, well below any other MLB stadium and most college parks.
Citing LA Coliseum is ridiculous. It was just a makeshift home for the Dodgers when they relocated to Los Angeles while Dodger Stadium was still being completed
You stated that Sick's Stadium was only used while they were waiting for the Astrodome to be finished. Are you and your quirky facts and voice for real???
The Oakland Coliseum was a nice place to watch a baseball game before Mount Davis
The sad thing about Tropicana Field and the Rays is that WWE drew more fans for 1 ppv event than the Rays drew for their playoff run last year
This video is heavily padded, with the host constantly repeating the same points over and over, repeatedly telling us how many years it was used, when it was used, what team played there, the fact that the stadium was a stay-dee-um, and the fact that it was bad. Actual time spent telling us why it was bad is more limited. This video probably could have been done in half the time if it had been written more tersely.
You could fit 76,000 in Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
You sound like Forrest.......Forrest Gump
1930s -- you could have used Baker Bowl in Philadelphia
i would have gone with miami in the 90’s. dont talk shit on sahleen park, its one of the better minor league parks and built with the option to add another level if they were selected as an expansion franchise in 93. the field. dimensions in buffalo are similar to chase field, so the offensive exposition must have been at the spring training facility.
Sicks Stadium was shit, trash and garbage all rolled into one! I know an old dude from Seattle and he showed me pictures of the dump!
Shocked that the 90's didn't get Mile High Stadium. Arlington was bad but Mile High was almost Municipal Stadium levels of bad.
Mile High may have been the only multipurpose stadium that worked. Maybe 45,000 seats were good for baseball, but it wasn't bad.
Mile High Stadium was great.. They were averaging 55k a game which is simply amazing
I don't get the obsession with Natural Light in a indoor stadium
Pronounced "Jerry" Park as in Jerry Seinfeld.
This was really good and you checked all the boxes for worst stadiums I could remember. There is one stadium which deserves an honorable mention: The Metrodome in Minneapolis. Remember the outfield fence was some kind of plastic material that Al Michaels humorously described as a “baggie” during the Twins World Series appearance.
I was surprised it didn't make the list. The sightlines were horrible for baseball (along the 1st base line was okay everywhere else sucked). The concourses were about 8 feet wide. As a Minnesotan I loved it though. It was a dump, but it was our dump.
Jerry park was the first one with a swimming pool by the stadium ginger
Your announcing doesn't help any here. As bluh as the subject.
I'm assuming the Rome Colosseum is a bad stadium since its a cookie cutter?
I still think it's unfortunate that a team as good as the Rays have been in recent years have to play in such a crap stadium. It kind of reminds me of the Mariners in the mid to late 90s: A really great team that plays in a dump of a stadium. Here's to the hope that the Rays get a good stadium soon, their fans really deserve it.
Tropicana Field is actually the best dome ever built for baseball, certainly far better than the Metrodome, Astrodome or Superdome.
@@davidlafleche1142Maybe, if it wasn't for those catwalks.
@@jcarwash31 So it has catwalks. So what? Lots of ballparks had odd quirks like that. Baseball is the only sport in which architecture had an influence on the game. The only exceptions were the "cookie cutter" stadiums, all of which were bland and boring.
@davidlafleche1142 Quirks are one thing, but those catwalks come into play way too often. It's the only park that has ever had ground rules stating if the ball hits certain objects it's a homerun. Miguel Sano once blasted a ball off the B ring that would have been a HR, but got a double instead. It's not exactly charming otherwise. It's an '80s built dome only 8 years newer than the Metrodome. The Metrodome was fine for baseball. Occasionally a ball would hit a speaker or the roof would give a fielder some trouble, but nothing like the Trop.
I thought the Minneapolis Metrodome would be listed because opposing teams complained about not being able to see the ball in the ceiling.
A venue like Arlington Stadium was not really as bad.
You forgot Olympic stadium in Montreal
i loved Exhibition Stadium! I paid $1 to sit in the outfield seats.
Kingdome in Seattle in the 90s was very drab
LOL you said Astrodome instead of Kingdome.
I'm surprised Veterans stadium didn't make the list..
RFK was wonderful. We loved it.
The minor league park in Buffalo actually hosted games with fans in 2021. It took until July that year before the Blue Jays were finally allowed back in Canada. It was a unique opportunity for Western New York residents because they don't have an MLB team, and I don't see them as being in contention for an expansion franchise.
The Rays have been stuck with Tropicana since they were founded in 1998, and it was a hand-me-down even back then. They've threatened to relocate if they don't get a new stadium. The problem with the Florida teams is that while the state has grown in population in recent years, those new residents largely stick with their old teams from where they came from. They have poor attendance, and you'll always see lots of fans of the opposing team at their games. The Marlins have a similar issue, but they have a new stadium, so they aren't going anywhere.
The possibility of the A's and Rays relocating is what is keeping an expansion to 32 teams from being immanent, even though it's been approved by the player's association. While it's pretty much a done deal that the A's are going to Las Vegas, things are still up in the air for the Rays, and they don't want to put an expansion franchise in a city that the Rays might want to relocate to.
Did you ever attend a game at Exibition stadium?
The Dodgers played FOUR seasons at the Coliseum (1958-61), not three. The Dodgers began played at Dodger Stadium in 1962.
Any list of worst MLB parks is incomplete without the Polo Gounds.
Good choices. I would suggest
1940s - Cleveland's two-headed monster of League Park and Municipal Stadium should BOTH be cited here.
1950s - Griffith Stadium is the correct answer because it was still segregated
1960s - agree that it's either Sick's or Colt, pick one. Polo Grounds was in ROUGH shape by 1962 as well.
1970s - Exhibition was better than nothing, but just barely
1980s - hate to do this, but Comiskey desperately needed either massive renovation or replacement by the 1980s.
1990s - KingDome was in a deplorable state of disrepair for something that opened in 1976.
2000s - Stade Olympique was so bad that RFK was an upgrade.
2010s - Busch Stadium III - EVERYTHING about it is done half-assed. People who say they like it have never been to a game there.
2020s - Oakland Coliseum - like Comiskey, it had a glorious past but was "the worst" at the very end of its life cycle.
Griffith Stadium being segregated had nothing to do with the ballpark and everything to do with either ownership or the laws of DC.
You lost me at Busch Stadium. The previous Busch Stadium was a concrete ashtray. The current Busch Stadium is an improvement. You shouldn't say that to a Cards fan.
where's the retractable roofs!??
Qualcomm was a dive in the end.
Cleveland Stadium was built so big to try and get the Olympics
I've heard that as well, but I think it's been debunked. LA had been awarded the 1932 Summer Olympics long before Cleveland broke ground on Municipal Stadium.
No, that's a myth. Cleveland was not even trying to get the Olympics. But the city was way ahead of its time, building the first true multi-purpose stadium (not perfect for baseball, but perhaps half of the seats were good). They correctly anticipated that football would want a huge, 80,000 seat facility, and the "horseshoe" design actually worked better for both sports than the "cookie cutters." (Memorial Stadium in Baltimore used the same idea, but smaller.)
I don’t know DG I think Angels Stadium is worse than the Trop. Tropicana Field is at least indoors and has some charm to it, and the seating configuration is made for baseball which angels stadium isn’t
Actually, it is. When it was built in 1966, it was designed solely for baseball. It actually looked better, too, with the Big A in left field. The Rams ruined it when they moved in. They should have kept the scoreboard where it was. It was a terrible football stadium. The sightlines were all wrong.
Why does he talk like that?
For most of the time, you could justifiably have had two "winners", one multipurpose and one baseball-only.