It was a pretty cool show. It got a little annoying when the announcer kept saying "it's a home run or nothing on home run derby" so many times on the show. Wouldn't it be cool if they did a reboot of the show? Instead of players receiving checks every time they win, they can donate to the charity of their choice and they can keep donating every time they win (eg. up to $10,000 or more). The runner up can also donate to their charity but in a smaller amount.
My apologies if someone else has already mentioned this, but Wigley Field in LA was, I think, the home of the original LA Angels who played in the PCL ( the minor league Angels had the same “LA” on their caps as the Dodgers). The major league Angels played there for a year, until Dodger Stadium was completed, and they shared it with the Dodgers until they moved to Anaheim.
I had a neighbor who worked at the Chrysler dealership back in the early '60s who used to go to Colt .45s games quite often. He said Colt Stadium was terrific for anybody who likes heat, humidity, mosquitoes and the smell of mosquito repellent. Also another friend went with his dad to games there. He said they used to go because his dad was from Chicago and was a Cubs fan. But it was a lot easier to drive the short distance from southwest Louisiana to Houston than to go all the way to Chicago.....LOL.
“Waiting for the kingdome to be ready”. Uhh no the kingdome wasn’t even a thought until the pilots left for Milwaukee and Seattle wanted to get a franchise back
@@bakerfsu yea he’s a clown . He made a video about the Tacoma dome being irrelevant. That stadium hosts major concerts and events every single week ALL YEAR ROUND . I’d argue it’s more relevant than every North Eastern open air NFL stadium which is useless half the year when it’s cold or snows
@@johnevans935 Since the A’s left Philadelphia, they’ve been vagabonds. In 1964, Finley had a deal to move them to Louisville but the league blocked it. 14 years later, oil tycoon Marvin Davis agreed to buy the A’s and move them to Denver. Again, blocked. Actual facts you won’t hear in any DG video.
I think the Baker Bowl looks pretty cool...a double decker stadium that wasn't too high. Great sightlines with funky center and right fields. Wrigley Field LA also looked pretty good.
Jarry park was a wonderful atmosphere for a couple of years. Living in Northern NY it was only an hour drive. 4 hrs to Boston 6 to 7 hrs to NY. Tickets were more reasonable Beer was great and so were the fans.
What do you mean you can't play baseball during the day in Texas, without air conditioning and an enclosed stadium? I live in Australia. Cricket is more physically intensive than baseball. We play cricket between the hours of 10am-6pm, 5 days in a row, only in summer. No stadiums are air conditioned. No major cricket stadium has a roof. And we do fine. You guys spend too much money on stadiums.
Toronto's Exhibition Stadium doesn't look as bad as the LA Coliseum did in field size as a Canadian football field is 195 feet wide vs. 160 feet for an American football field.
Interestingly enough, Mile High Stadium was originally built as a baseball stadium for the minor league Denver Bears. In fact, the stadium was called “Bears Stadium.” When the newly formed American Football League formed, the Broncos needed a stadium fast. So the city expanded Bears Stadium and kept expanding it into the Mile High Stadium we remember from the era in which, John Elway was the quarterback.
When Mile High hosted minor league ball along with the Broncos, the infield only had dirt on the bases like a turf field. This can be seen in the 1977 and 1978 DCI Championships.
Polo Grounds will always be weird to me as it looks more like an old world NFL stadium than MLB stadium, I mean the NY Football Giants did play there, for 30 years no less!
Baker Bowl had a railroad tunnel running under left and center field. You could feel the hump when you ran after fly balls. It also had a structurally deficient cantilever design that caused the upper deck to collapse.
🤔 How could the Pilots wait for the Kingdome to be ready back in 1969? I thought the Pilots went to Milwaukee and became the Brewers, then years later the Mariners arrived... 🤨
There was opposition in Seattle to building a new stadium for the team. The Pilot's owner wanted out after one season as the team lost a lot of money and they couldn't find another owner to buy the team and keep it in Seatte, so Bud Selig bought it and moved it to Milwaukee after the Pilots 1969 season, which was the only one they ever played. Seattle was later granted an expansion franchise along with Toronto, both of which started play in 1977.
@@michaelmarkowski204 The official move to Milwaukee was announced something like two days before the 1970 season began. They were all ready to start the season as the Pilots when Selig acquired the team in bankruptcy court.
@@stevengalloway8052 Yes, it was supposed to have been for the Pilots. Had there not been so much political BS (and Sicks' Stadium hadn't been such a dump), the plan was for the Kingdome to have been ready by 1971 and the Pilots would have played there.
They definitely didn't do their homework when they Constructed the Old Rangers ball park Aka Ball park in Arlington by not putting a retractable roof such a waste it was a beautiful park. I am sure they could have just installed a retractable roof instead of getting entire new park. Shame to see such as beautiful park not even 30 years old go to waste.
@Keith Yep it was named after Emil Sick, who owned the minor league Seattle Rainers. It was state of the art when it was built but was allowed to fall into disrepair and was a terrible place for a MLB team. @Kate The Angels did share Dodger Stadium until Anaheim Stadium was built and was called Chavez Ravine when the Angels played games there.
@@johnfitzpatrick3094 No, he's right about the Royals. Both them and the Pilots were supposed to begin play in 1971 but Missouri Senator Stuart Symington just _had_ to have his baseball fix in KC and the Pilots were forced to go along with them for a rushed 1969 start.
@@T_K7 The National League was dragged along on that. They didn't want to expand at all and at first only the AL was going to expand, as happened in 1977 with the Blue Jays & Mariners. Symington was a very influential figure, being close to the Kennedy family, and threatened baseball's anti-trust exemption when the A's moved from KC to Oakland, so the deal made was the A's would be allowed to move (in 1968) only if KC got a new team right away. Thus the rushed expansion in 1969.
@@toddhawley2226 Charlie Finley was looking to move the Kansas City A's ; he took a tour of Sick's Stadium, wasn't exactly impressed, and commented "they got the name right".
If you look at Exhibition Stadium at around 7:23, the kind of flat white building way in the background behind the right field fence, that building was the original Hockey Hall of Fame. I'm not from Toronto, and have only been there once, but that was in the summer of 1976 as a kid on a family vacation, and they were doing renovation on the Stadium, getting ready for the Blue Jays, who would start up the next year. There were a lot of cranes and heavy equipment doing the work. As for the other Canadian stadium, Jarry Park, supposedly Mack Jones hit a HR ball into that swimming pool. I don't know if that's true, but it was much talked about at the time, so maybe it is true. If it's over 500 feet, that was a pretty good shot.
I don't know if there is a definitive record of "pool shots" at Jarry Park, but I know Willie Stargell hit at least one in the pool. In his last year playing, when he came to Montreal, they gave him a lifesaver from the Jarry Park pool as a retirement gift.
Unfortunately, Jarry Park wasn't open to the public when I visited Montréal in January ... but I was able to get a decent pic of what was once the right-field exterior.
The most unfortunate thing about Exhibition Stadium, is that some of the best teams in Jays history, played there. Believe me, that stadium was absolutely atrocious. It was right next to Lake Ontario and boy was it bone chilling cold, during the early months of the season.
Went to a few games at Jarry Park when I was a kid. Walking around outside the bleachers you needed to keep your head up as the bleachers were so small, foul balls would clear the bleachers and bean unsuspecting fans.
When the Senators moved to Texas, they had to play at Spurs Stadium. It was a minor league park that sat about 7000 , and they just built miles of bleachers in the outfield to bring it up to MLB standards. I went to lots of games there as a kid. It was renamed Arlington Stadium and had a capacity of about 40,000, but at least half of the stadium was outfield bleachers. Sometimes, tickets would be like $1, and there was always a fight in the outfield bleachers in the late innings.
The most famous fight the Rangers were involved in back in those days didn't happen in Arlington though. I was listening to the game on WBAP where they were playing the Cleveland Indians on 10 cent beer night and there was a near riot with all the drunks in the stands. Billy Martin was the Rangers manager at that time and I remember they interviewed him on TV after they got home. I think good old Billy actually enjoyed the whole thing the way he was smiling during the interview. LOL
I went to Arlington Stadium multiple times in 1981-1984. If you sat close, it was great. Outfield was like bleachers and were cheap. Parking wasn't bad either.
@@yuckyool I always wanted to go to a Rangers game back in the '70s. I was just a kid and we lived east of Houston so we always went to Astros games at the Dome. However, I'm one of the few fans who like both the Rangers and Astros, even today. I remember practically all of the Rangers games were at night, even on Sundays, due to the heat.
@@robertwayne808 Went to one Astro's-Dodgers game . . . I think it was 1983. At that time, indoor stadiums were "special". The Rangers stadium was clearly NOT Yankee or Shea (which is what I grew up on). Since then, I've been to dozens of MLB and MiLB stadiums.
The most annoying thing about Depressed Ginger is his habit of looking at modern stadiums, only a few years old, still in excellent condition, and he says, "This is bland and outdated."
Exhibition Stadium should've been #1, for the outfield grandstand alone. You could only sell 40% of those seats for baseball, and with the fixed stands, fans would have to turn their heads to see what was going on. Throw in the cold winds off Lake Ontario in the cooler weather months of the season and you have one very uncomfortable baseball experience.
1:50 The attendance record set by the Rockies was over 4 million, but they weren’t the first to pass that mark. The Blue Jays were earlier in the 1990s at the new Skydome. The Dodgers were the first team to eclipse 3 million, in 1978.
it wasn't until about 10 years ago i realized there was two wrigley fields.... i had always wondered why "home run derby" was shot in Chicago seemed odd.
The Seattle pilots didn’t play in Sick stadium for one year while the Kingdome was being built. They played there one year because they moved the team to Milwaukee the following season, and the Pilots became the Brewers. The Kingdome wasn’t built for several more years.
When Jerry Jones hosted the SuperBowl at ATT Stadium in 2011, he tried to expand the 80k permanent seats to 105K so he could beat the SB record of 104k at the Rose Bowl. I don't know what the problem was as he had WEEKS to accomplish it but they were still scurrying to add seats up to the day before the game but the Fire Marshal put the kibosh on a large portion of them. Ticket holders were offered tickets to a future SB game. As for the pool at Jarry Park OUTSIDE of Jarry Park Stadium, we now see pools emerging as as feature at both MLB and MiLB stadiums today. Understand that Jarry Park was the larger park that the stadium was in and was a family recreation destination. Metrodome roof had FIVE collapses! Who thought this was a good idea where a foot of snow in a day was the norm? Didn't anyone realize how much a foot or more of snow weighs? When the Argonauts left, they took out the sliding pits and put in a regular infield. There was a 3rd Wrigley Field in Avalon on Catalina Island. The Wrigley's who owned the Cubs had a few weeks of spring training on Catalina until 1952. The Wrigley Mansion is now a B&B.
Wrigley Field LA helped convince the Dodgers to move from Brooklyn. They could draw crowds, but ended up in the LA Coliseum whilst Dodger Stadium was being built.
* Mile High Stadium may have been the best multi-purpose stadium ever built. * Sick's Stadium was hopeless, but didn't need to be. Kansas City completely rebuilt Municipal Stadium in three months flat: not perfect, but not bad. Seattle didn't try hard enough. * Jarry Park was a nice little place. The only real issue was the brutally cold weather. It was still better than Olympic Stadium. * The Metrodome was horrible. I don't know of a single athlete who liked it. * Exhibition Stadium was half bad. The seats from the right field foul pole to left-center were good. Again, the issue was weather. * Polo Grounds was like Ebbets Field: hopelessly outdated and irreparable, no parking, etc. The most irritating part had to be those unnecessary green walls in center field. * Baker Bowl was even worse than Polo Grounds. At least the Giants had some competitive teams. * Colt Stadium was much like Jarry Park. The worst problems were hot weather, rain, rattlesnakes, mosquitoes and fleas. But at least the fans had a good view of the game. * L.A. Coliseum was a joke. * Wrigley Field L.A. wasn't bad, just outdated and too small.
Yeah MLB's "dimension rules" unless you're baseball's teacher's pet the Yankees, then those "rules" go by the wayside apparently. Other teams had been denied permission to build shorter dimensions despite planning to use taller fences to make up for it. Yet what do you know...the Yankees come calling wanting to build shorter dimensions than the rules allow and despite wanting to not only build even shorter dimensions then those other teams but also just having a normal height fence and yet they were given permission. Honestly it amazes me that any non-Yankees player ever leads the league in homers with 309 feet down the line. (Yes Fenway is shorter at the pole but not really considering how drastically it shoots out to much, much deeper. Anything not wrapping around the foul pole is going to need to go further than at Yankee Stadium.
Sicks Stadium was The King of Dumps Stadiums!! Jarry Park was another Super Dump of a Stadium!! Baker Bowl, Colt Stadium, Seal Stadium, Griffith Stadium and Exibition Stadium are on my worst stadiums lists!! Arlington Stadium, Oakland Coliseum and the Trop are also on the worst stadiums list!!
What a life it must have been for stadium architects in the 60’s and 70’s. “Oh you want me to design a new stadium? Ok here you go” All they had to do was change the name on the design sense apparently at the time everyone seemed to think those concrete donuts were the pinnacle and were perfect. I’m so glad those days are gone. Baseball has the unique distinction among professional sports of allowing different dimensions in the outfield (within reason) why would you not take advantage of that? I will forever be great ful to the Orioles and Camden Yards for fixing the problem those multi purpose stadiums started.
The tennis center that Jarry Park was turned into hasn't looked like this (5:05) in well over 20 years, so it's kind of misleading when you say it's disheveled. You do use a picture of one of the current stadiums at the center (5:01) but you don't seem to realize that the two pictures are from different time periods.
You've obviously never been to Montreal, have you? The tennis stadium there is amazing. They even might put a roof on the main court. Montreal and Toronto holds tournaments at their respective stadiums every summer.
When I seen the title of this vid I thought to myself Ginger has to include Sick’s Stadium in Seattle. How aptly named was that atrocity of a park? Amirite?
Their was a unique MLB rule specifically created for Exhibition Stadium: if a batter hit a home run to right field that landed in the end zone on the fly, the hitter's team was awarded two runs when he crossed home plate. No one ever did it. 😄
Lake Front Park where the Chicago (NL) White Stockings played 1878-1884. In 1884, it was less than 200 feet down the foul lines (the 250-foot minimum for a homerun rule was not in there yet) and they had the top four players in homeruns, including Ed Williamson's record of 27 (which stood for 25 years until Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox broke it).
The difference between Exhibition Stadium and Skydome/Rogers Centre was so stark. Exhibition was a total dump and thousans of football seats were 500 to 700 feet from home plate. Not to mention at the first Blue Jays game there April 7, 1977 against the White Sox the stadium and field was covered in lake effect snow of which the game was played. Not to mention it was a windy stadium being right on Lake Ontario and home of the famous Dave Winfield seagull game. Seen October playoffs there in 1985 might as well wore heavy coats because of the cold
After the Dodgers moved to the LA Coliseum, the MLB instituted a rule that any ballpark built for a professional team after June 1, 1958, had to be at least 325 down the lines and 400 to center. Not all of the newest ballparks qualify.
I went to a Blue Jays game back in 1977 when they played at Exhibition Stadium and it was a strange ballpark. I still have the ticket to the game and my family and I sat in the right field bleachers down the first base side and the seats were benches instead of actual seats. Also, I remember a fan trying to leave the ballpark with a foul ball and the police ran after the guy, so the Blue Jays finances must have been kind of tight back in those days.😀
The weirdest thing about the Polo Grounds (at least the version anyone remembers) is that it was actually built for baseball...it ended up also hosting football (which seems like what it was built for if you look at it) and the name contains a reference to polo, but that was just a nod to one of the Giants' previous homes. So someone sat down and drew a baseball facility and that's what they came up with.
Fun note, while Wrigley Field in Chicago is older, Wrigley Field in LA was the first Wrigley Field. It was named that in 1925. The Chicago version wasn't named Wrigley until 1926.
Originally Wrigley Field was called Weeghman Park after the Chicago Whales of the Federal League owner Charles Weeghman when it opened in 1914. The Cubs moved there when the Federal League folded. By the time of the 1918 World Series of Chicago Cubs versus Boston Red Sox they actually moved World Series games to Comiskey Park because of b it's better stadium and much larger seating capacity.
I can’t imagine what a game at the Polo Grounds would have been like. If stadiums were allowed to still be like that with modern players we’d very likely be looking at players hitting 100 home runs in a season. Lazy pop flys to left and right would be upper deckers at the Polo Grounds with it’s insane 260 feet away outfield walls. Not to mention all of the inside the park homeruns when the faster players of today hit balls deep to center where it’s nearly 500 feet to an incredibly tall centre field fence.
I don't know about that. Sure, the dimensions down the lines were 279 in left, and 258 to the right. What you aren't considering is that the left field power alley was 455, and in right, it was 449. Think the right field belly in Fenway Park. 302 down the line. walk 10 feet to the left of the foul pole, and the wall is now 370 feet from Home plate. The Polo Grounds is much worse. 400 feet with that mere 10 foot walk from the foul poles A cheap home run in the Polo Grounds can only happen if you hit the foul pole, just like right field in Fenway Park. LF Foul pole: 279 LF between foul pole and power alley: 414 LF power alley: 455 Deep left center: 425 Memorial in center in play: 483 Center: 505 Deepest right center: 425 RF power alley: 449 RF between foul pole and power alley: 395 RF Foul pole: 258
exhibition stadium does not get enough credit for how awful it is as a football stadium. The bleachers aren't in line with the field so seats in the corners near one endzone faced that endzones goal posts or even behind the goal posts towards the back of the endzones
That's one of the reasons it was called "The Mistake By The Lake". I liked the $4 grandstand bleacher seats for Jays games back in the 1980s as they were contoured seats with backrests and had that overhang roof to protect you if it started raining. Great value. Better than sitting on those bench seats along the first base line.
If they had built it as a straight "L" shape instead of angling it inward, it would have been fine, especially if they had put the same kind of roof on it that the original grandstand had. It would have still been way far from the football field, though.
Wrigley Field in Los Angeles is where Home Run Derby was filmed in the early 60s.
I loved watching that show it was 2 batters with that announcer guy. 9 innings and each guy would bat and had three outs per inning
It was a pretty cool show. It got a little annoying when the announcer kept saying "it's a home run or nothing on home run derby" so many times on the show.
Wouldn't it be cool if they did a reboot of the show? Instead of players receiving checks every time they win, they can donate to the charity of their choice and they can keep donating every time they win (eg. up to $10,000 or more). The runner up can also donate to their charity but in a smaller amount.
@@jwbogacki I would love a reboot it could end up being a better home run derby than the all star game
Scott died before a second series killed show but a classic see it if you can
Was the home of the Ångels in South Central LA
I drive by where Sick's used to be often. Its crazy to think a MLB stadium was there. It's a Lowe's now lol...
The Rainiers had local talent. Although Hyper-local in the case of Fred Hutchinson. Franklin High is 2 blocks away.
My apologies if someone else has already mentioned this, but Wigley Field in LA was, I think, the home of the original LA Angels who played in the PCL ( the minor league Angels had the same “LA” on their caps as the Dodgers). The major league Angels played there for a year, until Dodger Stadium was completed, and they shared it with the Dodgers until they moved to Anaheim.
Don't forget that Wrigley Field LA hosted the original 1959-60 Home Run Derby!
I remember watch that on TV.
In the colts 45 stadium the worst thing wasn’t the heat or humidity. The mosquitoes was the one thing the hated the most of that place.
1962 was worse ; they had a 13 game homestand in mid-late July with 3 doublehaders.
I had a neighbor who worked at the Chrysler dealership back in the early '60s who used to go to Colt .45s games quite often. He said Colt Stadium was terrific for anybody who likes heat, humidity, mosquitoes and the smell of mosquito repellent. Also another friend went with his dad to games there. He said they used to go because his dad was from Chicago and was a Cubs fan. But it was a lot easier to drive the short distance from southwest Louisiana to Houston than to go all the way to Chicago.....LOL.
“Waiting for the kingdome to be ready”. Uhh no the kingdome wasn’t even a thought until the pilots left for Milwaukee and Seattle wanted to get a franchise back
Thank you. I thought of that too. This guy just makes stuff up.
Half the crap this guy says isn’t true. Trying to figure out how to block him.
@@bakerfsu yea he’s a clown . He made a video about the Tacoma dome being irrelevant. That stadium hosts major concerts and events every single week ALL YEAR ROUND . I’d argue it’s more relevant than every North Eastern open air NFL stadium which is useless half the year when it’s cold or snows
I thought the A’s were looking to move there but whoever it was, the owner made the comment that they named the stadium well, Sick’s Seattle Stadium…
@@johnevans935 Since the A’s left Philadelphia, they’ve been vagabonds. In 1964, Finley had a deal to move them to Louisville but the league blocked it. 14 years later, oil tycoon Marvin Davis agreed to buy the A’s and move them to Denver. Again, blocked. Actual facts you won’t hear in any DG video.
yeah it's safe to say that Exabition stadium will never be on MLB The Shows classic ballpark selection list.
Not only the filming of the home run derby was at Wrigley LA but also a episode of the Munsters.
Greatest Munsters episode ever!
" I don't know whether to sign him or send him to Vietnam!"
I think the Baker Bowl looks pretty cool...a double decker stadium that wasn't too high. Great sightlines with funky center and right fields. Wrigley Field LA also looked pretty good.
Jarry park was a wonderful atmosphere for a couple of years. Living in Northern NY it was only an hour drive. 4 hrs to Boston 6 to 7 hrs to NY. Tickets were more reasonable Beer was great and so were the fans.
Wrigley Field...never liked the brick walls and fences...
My first memories is of the Metrodome was watching balls go flying off the carpet seems all directions possible
Interestingly enough, Mile High was originally built for Baseball
The minor league, "Denver Bears," played at Mile High for years.
@@ThomasJanik-nf5vi then they later became Denver Zephyrs, then became the New Orleans Zephyrs, and are now the New Orleans Babycakes
What do you mean you can't play baseball during the day in Texas, without air conditioning and an enclosed stadium?
I live in Australia.
Cricket is more physically intensive than baseball.
We play cricket between the hours of 10am-6pm, 5 days in a row, only in summer. No stadiums are air conditioned. No major cricket stadium has a roof.
And we do fine. You guys spend too much money on stadiums.
I understand that the Polo Grounds wasn't designed for playing Baseball.
No. it was POLO-thus the name!
Toronto's Exhibition Stadium doesn't look as bad as the LA Coliseum did in field size as a Canadian football field is 195 feet wide vs. 160 feet for an American football field.
Sick's Stadium is now a Lowe's
Where's Seals Stadium in San Francisco?
A sports venue like The Polo Grounds would have to remodeled for an mlb team.
Horace Stoneham didn't have the money. His only source of income was ticket sales and concessions. There was absolutely no parking.
Dude why are you yelling?
its pronounced Jerry Park.
Ha ha. I thought the same thing. He butchered the name
It's pronounced Jarry Park, just like it's spelled. Or, if you want to say Parc Jarry in French, it would be like zharry.
Leave Jarry Park it was nice ball park in the 60's
I'd go. I like smaller old timey ballparks.
Exhibition stadium isn't the jays it was the expos
Nope, the Blue Jays played at Exhibition Stadium; the Expos played at the Olympic Stadium.
Blue Jays = Exhibition Stadium to SkyDome (Rogers Centre)
Expos: Jarry Park to Olympic Stadium
Interestingly enough, Mile High Stadium was originally built as a baseball stadium for the minor league Denver Bears. In fact, the stadium was called “Bears Stadium.” When the newly formed American Football League formed, the Broncos needed a stadium fast. So the city expanded Bears Stadium and kept expanding it into the Mile High Stadium we remember from the era in which, John Elway was the quarterback.
I live in Colorado I remember the Denver Zephers minor league team played there too
I remember the Twins had our AAA team there
When Mile High hosted minor league ball along with the Broncos, the infield only had dirt on the bases like a turf field. This can be seen in the 1977 and 1978 DCI Championships.
Came to the comments to post this as soon as I saw Mile High Stadium kick off the list.
You need to mention the locations of some of these stadiums; not everyone is familiar with the stadium names.
Re: Exhibition Stadium, don’t confuse it with Exhibitionist Stadium it’s successor…. 😂😂
Exhibitionism games
Reference to couples in the hotel rooms in the outfield at SkyDome/Rogers Centre thinking no one could see them.
Polo Grounds will always be weird to me as it looks more like an old world NFL stadium than MLB stadium, I mean the NY Football Giants did play there, for 30 years no less!
Mile High Stadium is how multipurpose stadiums should be.
Baker Bowl had a railroad tunnel running under left and center field. You could feel the hump when you ran after fly balls. It also had a structurally deficient cantilever design that caused the upper deck to collapse.
🤔 How could the Pilots wait for the Kingdome to be ready back in 1969? I thought the Pilots went to Milwaukee and became the Brewers, then years later the Mariners arrived... 🤨
There was opposition in Seattle to building a new stadium for the team. The Pilot's owner wanted out after one season as the team lost a lot of money and they couldn't find another owner to buy the team and keep it in Seatte, so Bud Selig bought it and moved it to Milwaukee after the Pilots 1969 season, which was the only one they ever played. Seattle was later granted an expansion franchise along with Toronto, both of which started play in 1977.
@@michaelmarkowski204 - Which was my point. The Kingdome was built for the Mariners and the Seahawks, not the Pilots...
@@michaelmarkowski204 The official move to Milwaukee was announced something like two days before the 1970 season began. They were all ready to start the season as the Pilots when Selig acquired the team in bankruptcy court.
@@stevengalloway8052 Yes, it was supposed to have been for the Pilots. Had there not been so much political BS (and Sicks' Stadium hadn't been such a dump), the plan was for the Kingdome to have been ready by 1971 and the Pilots would have played there.
They definitely didn't do their homework when they Constructed the Old Rangers ball park Aka Ball park in Arlington by not putting a retractable roof such a waste it was a beautiful park. I am sure they could have just installed a retractable roof instead of getting entire new park. Shame to see such as beautiful park not even 30 years old go to waste.
That situation in Arlington was always a mystery to me. Who is paying for that huge new dome?
This narrator’s voice is so annoying
Sicks was a minor league park. the reason it was not ready was the KC Royals wanted to start right away instead of waiting a couple years.
@Keith Yep it was named after Emil Sick, who owned the minor league Seattle Rainers. It was state of the art when it was built but was allowed to fall into disrepair and was a terrible place for a MLB team. @Kate The Angels did share Dodger Stadium until Anaheim Stadium was built and was called Chavez Ravine when the Angels played games there.
You're thinking of the Pilots. The Royals played at Municipal Stadium in KC, which should have been on this list.
@@johnfitzpatrick3094 No, he's right about the Royals. Both them and the Pilots were supposed to begin play in 1971 but Missouri Senator Stuart Symington just _had_ to have his baseball fix in KC and the Pilots were forced to go along with them for a rushed 1969 start.
@@T_K7 The National League was dragged along on that. They didn't want to expand at all and at first only the AL was going to expand, as happened in 1977 with the Blue Jays & Mariners. Symington was a very influential figure, being close to the Kennedy family, and threatened baseball's anti-trust exemption when the A's moved from KC to Oakland, so the deal made was the A's would be allowed to move (in 1968) only if KC got a new team right away. Thus the rushed expansion in 1969.
@@toddhawley2226 Charlie Finley was looking to move the Kansas City A's ; he took a tour of Sick's Stadium, wasn't exactly impressed, and commented "they got the name right".
If you look at Exhibition Stadium at around 7:23, the kind of flat white building way in the background behind the right field fence, that building was the original Hockey Hall of Fame. I'm not from Toronto, and have only been there once, but that was in the summer of 1976 as a kid on a family vacation, and they were doing renovation on the Stadium, getting ready for the Blue Jays, who would start up the next year. There were a lot of cranes and heavy equipment doing the work. As for the other Canadian stadium, Jarry Park, supposedly Mack Jones hit a HR ball into that swimming pool. I don't know if that's true, but it was much talked about at the time, so maybe it is true. If it's over 500 feet, that was a pretty good shot.
I don't know if there is a definitive record of "pool shots" at Jarry Park, but I know Willie Stargell hit at least one in the pool. In his last year playing, when he came to Montreal, they gave him a lifesaver from the Jarry Park pool as a retirement gift.
Unfortunately, Jarry Park wasn't open to the public when I visited Montréal in January ... but I was able to get a decent pic of what was once the right-field exterior.
Mile High was originally a minor league baseball stadium.
The most unfortunate thing about Exhibition Stadium, is that some of the best teams in Jays history, played there. Believe me, that stadium was absolutely atrocious. It was right next to Lake Ontario and boy was it bone chilling cold, during the early months of the season.
Went to a few games at Jarry Park when I was a kid. Walking around outside the bleachers you needed to keep your head up as the bleachers were so small, foul balls would clear the bleachers and bean unsuspecting fans.
The only problem was the cold weather. Other than that, Jarry Park wasn't bad.
Famous Baker Bowl sign: "the Phillies use Lifebuoy" and someone wrote on sign "and they still stink"
I figure the Astrodome, should be ok the top ten. I went an Astros' game long time ago, the Left Field, or Leftcenter Field, is kind of weird.
When the Senators moved to Texas, they had to play at Spurs Stadium. It was a minor league park that sat about 7000 , and they just built miles of bleachers in the outfield to bring it up to MLB standards. I went to lots of games there as a kid. It was renamed Arlington Stadium and had a capacity of about 40,000, but at least half of the stadium was outfield bleachers. Sometimes, tickets would be like $1, and there was always a fight in the outfield bleachers in the late innings.
Wasn't it called Turnpike Stadium?
The most famous fight the Rangers were involved in back in those days didn't happen in Arlington though. I was listening to the game on WBAP where they were playing the Cleveland Indians on 10 cent beer night and there was a near riot with all the drunks in the stands. Billy Martin was the Rangers manager at that time and I remember they interviewed him on TV after they got home. I think good old Billy actually enjoyed the whole thing the way he was smiling during the interview. LOL
I went to Arlington Stadium multiple times in 1981-1984. If you sat close, it was great. Outfield was like bleachers and were cheap.
Parking wasn't bad either.
@@yuckyool I always wanted to go to a Rangers game back in the '70s. I was just a kid and we lived east of Houston so we always went to Astros games at the Dome. However, I'm one of the few fans who like both the Rangers and Astros, even today. I remember practically all of the Rangers games were at night, even on Sundays, due to the heat.
@@robertwayne808 Went to one Astro's-Dodgers game . . . I think it was 1983. At that time, indoor stadiums were "special".
The Rangers stadium was clearly NOT Yankee or Shea (which is what I grew up on). Since then, I've been to dozens of MLB and MiLB stadiums.
I was watching one of video’s earlier today & my girl said ur voice is annoying 😒😩
The most annoying thing about Depressed Ginger is his habit of looking at modern stadiums, only a few years old, still in excellent condition, and he says, "This is bland and outdated."
Exhibition Stadium should've been #1, for the outfield grandstand alone. You could only sell 40% of those seats for baseball, and with the fixed stands, fans would have to turn their heads to see what was going on. Throw in the cold winds off Lake Ontario in the cooler weather months of the season and you have one very uncomfortable baseball experience.
Exhibition stadium is the worst because they hosted an actual MLB team for over 10 seasons.
The seats from the right field foul pole to about left-center were good. The rest of them were useless.
Why did the Metrodome have sewer drains on the walls behind home plate? 😁😳
1:50 The attendance record set by the Rockies was over 4 million, but they weren’t the first to pass that mark. The Blue Jays were earlier in the 1990s at the new Skydome.
The Dodgers were the first team to eclipse 3 million, in 1978.
I love polo Grounds it stands out. Whenever I want a challenge in MLB the show I play polo Grounds.
12:15 the old TV show "Home run derby" was taped at "Wrigley Field".
4:18 that pool is still there.
Why are you yelling at us?
it wasn't until about 10 years ago i realized there was two wrigley fields.... i had always wondered why "home run derby" was shot in Chicago seemed odd.
Really these stadiums make the Oakland A’s Las Vegas ballpark seem tame
The Seattle pilots didn’t play in Sick stadium for one year while the Kingdome was being built. They played there one year because they moved the team to Milwaukee the following season, and the Pilots became the Brewers. The Kingdome wasn’t built for several more years.
When Jerry Jones hosted the SuperBowl at ATT Stadium in 2011, he tried to expand the 80k permanent seats to 105K so he could beat the SB record of 104k at the Rose Bowl. I don't know what the problem was as he had WEEKS to accomplish it but they were still scurrying to add seats up to the day before the game but the Fire Marshal put the kibosh on a large portion of them. Ticket holders were offered tickets to a future SB game.
As for the pool at Jarry Park OUTSIDE of Jarry Park Stadium, we now see pools emerging as as feature at both MLB and MiLB stadiums today. Understand that Jarry Park was the larger park that the stadium was in and was a family recreation destination.
Metrodome roof had FIVE collapses! Who thought this was a good idea where a foot of snow in a day was the norm? Didn't anyone realize how much a foot or more of snow weighs?
When the Argonauts left, they took out the sliding pits and put in a regular infield.
There was a 3rd Wrigley Field in Avalon on Catalina Island. The Wrigley's who owned the Cubs had a few weeks of spring training on Catalina until 1952. The Wrigley Mansion is now a B&B.
Wrigley Field LA helped convince the Dodgers to move from Brooklyn. They could draw crowds, but ended up in the LA Coliseum whilst Dodger Stadium was being built.
* Mile High Stadium may have been the best multi-purpose stadium ever built.
* Sick's Stadium was hopeless, but didn't need to be. Kansas City completely rebuilt Municipal Stadium in three months flat: not perfect, but not bad. Seattle didn't try hard enough.
* Jarry Park was a nice little place. The only real issue was the brutally cold weather. It was still better than Olympic Stadium.
* The Metrodome was horrible. I don't know of a single athlete who liked it.
* Exhibition Stadium was half bad. The seats from the right field foul pole to left-center were good. Again, the issue was weather.
* Polo Grounds was like Ebbets Field: hopelessly outdated and irreparable, no parking, etc. The most irritating part had to be those unnecessary green walls in center field.
* Baker Bowl was even worse than Polo Grounds. At least the Giants had some competitive teams.
* Colt Stadium was much like Jarry Park. The worst problems were hot weather, rain, rattlesnakes, mosquitoes and fleas. But at least the fans had a good view of the game.
* L.A. Coliseum was a joke.
* Wrigley Field L.A. wasn't bad, just outdated and too small.
Yeah MLB's "dimension rules" unless you're baseball's teacher's pet the Yankees, then those "rules" go by the wayside apparently. Other teams had been denied permission to build shorter dimensions despite planning to use taller fences to make up for it. Yet what do you know...the Yankees come calling wanting to build shorter dimensions than the rules allow and despite wanting to not only build even shorter dimensions then those other teams but also just having a normal height fence and yet they were given permission. Honestly it amazes me that any non-Yankees player ever leads the league in homers with 309 feet down the line. (Yes Fenway is shorter at the pole but not really considering how drastically it shoots out to much, much deeper. Anything not wrapping around the foul pole is going to need to go further than at Yankee Stadium.
Sicks Stadium was The King of Dumps Stadiums!! Jarry Park was another Super Dump of a Stadium!! Baker Bowl, Colt Stadium, Seal Stadium, Griffith Stadium and Exibition Stadium are on my worst stadiums lists!! Arlington Stadium, Oakland Coliseum and the Trop are also on the worst stadiums list!!
What a life it must have been for stadium architects in the 60’s and 70’s. “Oh you want me to design a new stadium? Ok here you go” All they had to do was change the name on the design sense apparently at the time everyone seemed to think those concrete donuts were the pinnacle and were perfect. I’m so glad those days are gone. Baseball has the unique distinction among professional sports of allowing different dimensions in the outfield (within reason) why would you not take advantage of that? I will forever be great ful to the Orioles and Camden Yards for fixing the problem those multi purpose stadiums started.
The tennis center that Jarry Park was turned into hasn't looked like this (5:05) in well over 20 years, so it's kind of misleading when you say it's disheveled. You do use a picture of one of the current stadiums at the center (5:01) but you don't seem to realize that the two pictures are from different time periods.
You've obviously never been to Montreal, have you? The tennis stadium there is amazing. They even might put a roof on the main court. Montreal and Toronto holds tournaments at their respective stadiums every summer.
The Polo Grounds was just 1/4 of a mile from Yankee Stadium!
LA Wrigley was first than Chicago's just not as famousa,and no longer standing
When I seen the title of this vid I thought to myself Ginger has to include Sick’s Stadium in Seattle. How aptly named was that atrocity of a park? Amirite?
The Angels played their first season at Wrigley before moving into the stadium in Anaheim
It looks like a unfinished house!! Haaa had me laughing so hard man. But at least these stadiums didn’t have lettuce fields
I remember Colt Stadium sitting there in the early 70s
I lived in LA and wouldve been cool to see the Angels at Wrigley Field if Wrigley was still there
went to 20-30 Twins game at the Metrodome. Place was a dump
3:06 What's up with the parking on the bottom right of the screen?
@Depressed Ginger dont forget to tell them to make sure they tweet on X😮
Dude sounds like Forrest Gump
The Baker Bowl surviving would’ve been quite a stadium to behold
Little Known Fact: The Baker Bowl was named after Dusty Baker's father.
So I part of your gimmick to purposefully to little to no research on what you are taking about?
Do an English premier league stadium tier list
Wrigley la wasn't too bad
Their was a unique MLB rule specifically created for Exhibition Stadium: if a batter hit a home run to right field that landed in the end zone on the fly, the hitter's team was awarded two runs when he crossed home plate. No one ever did it. 😄
Do you have receipts for this fact ?
LOOOOL
The players in Colt Stadium in Houston had to at times avoid Rattlesnakes in the outfield during games back in the day. No Joke.
I've heard that there were tons of bugs.
@@johnsheehan6250 "The mosquitoes were twin-engine jobs." (Rusty Staub)
This guy just makes shit up. The Metrodome never let natural light in.
Look at later pics of the roof; they installed a new roof, and the part over the field was translucent.
During the day the roof was bright. But to imply that it let in natural light is a stretch. I as in that stupid stadium every season it stood.
Lake Front Park where the Chicago (NL) White Stockings played 1878-1884. In 1884, it was less than 200 feet down the foul lines (the 250-foot minimum for a homerun rule was not in there yet) and they had the top four players in homeruns, including Ed Williamson's record of 27 (which stood for 25 years until Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox broke it).
The difference between Exhibition Stadium and Skydome/Rogers Centre was so stark. Exhibition was a total dump and thousans of football seats were 500 to 700 feet from home plate. Not to mention at the first Blue Jays game there April 7, 1977 against the White Sox the stadium and field was covered in lake effect snow of which the game was played. Not to mention it was a windy stadium being right on Lake Ontario and home of the famous Dave Winfield seagull game. Seen October playoffs there in 1985 might as well wore heavy coats because of the cold
After the Dodgers moved to the LA Coliseum, the MLB instituted a rule that any ballpark built for a professional team after June 1, 1958, had to be at least 325 down the lines and 400 to center. Not all of the newest ballparks qualify.
I went to a Blue Jays game back in 1977 when they played at Exhibition Stadium and it was a strange ballpark. I still have the ticket to the game and my family and I sat in the right field bleachers down the first base side and the seats were benches instead of actual seats. Also, I remember a fan trying to leave the ballpark with a foul ball and the police ran after the guy, so the Blue Jays finances must have been kind of tight back in those days.😀
The weirdest thing about the Polo Grounds (at least the version anyone remembers) is that it was actually built for baseball...it ended up also hosting football (which seems like what it was built for if you look at it) and the name contains a reference to polo, but that was just a nod to one of the Giants' previous homes. So someone sat down and drew a baseball facility and that's what they came up with.
Amazing. My parents grew in in Southgate & Lynnwood in South Central LA. Huge Dodger fans. They never told me about Wrigley Field in LA.
Fun note, while Wrigley Field in Chicago is older, Wrigley Field in LA was the first Wrigley Field. It was named that in 1925. The Chicago version wasn't named Wrigley until 1926.
Phil Wrigley built both.
Originally Wrigley Field was called Weeghman Park after the Chicago Whales of the Federal League owner Charles Weeghman when it opened in 1914. The Cubs moved there when the Federal League folded. By the time of the 1918 World Series of Chicago Cubs versus Boston Red Sox they actually moved World Series games to Comiskey Park because of b it's better stadium and much larger seating capacity.
We take it for granted, it doesn’t feel weird because we see it all the time, but Fenway Park is weird.
Mile High Stadium’s attendance is the reason they built Coors field so big
How about stadium that mlb played baseball outside of USA 🇺🇸?
I can’t imagine what a game at the Polo Grounds would have been like. If stadiums were allowed to still be like that with modern players we’d very likely be looking at players hitting 100 home runs in a season. Lazy pop flys to left and right would be upper deckers at the Polo Grounds with it’s insane 260 feet away outfield walls. Not to mention all of the inside the park homeruns when the faster players of today hit balls deep to center where it’s nearly 500 feet to an incredibly tall centre field fence.
I don't know about that. Sure, the dimensions down the lines were 279 in left, and 258 to the right. What you aren't considering is that the left field power alley was 455, and in right, it was 449. Think the right field belly in Fenway Park. 302 down the line. walk 10 feet to the left of the foul pole, and the wall is now 370 feet from Home plate. The Polo Grounds is much worse. 400 feet with that mere 10 foot walk from the foul poles
A cheap home run in the Polo Grounds can only happen if you hit the foul pole, just like right field in Fenway Park.
LF Foul pole: 279
LF between foul pole and power alley: 414
LF power alley: 455
Deep left center: 425
Memorial in center in play: 483
Center: 505
Deepest right center: 425
RF power alley: 449
RF between foul pole and power alley: 395
RF Foul pole: 258
You should do minor league baseball stadiums
i love the polo grounds
exhibition stadium does not get enough credit for how awful it is as a football stadium. The bleachers aren't in line with the field so seats in the corners near one endzone faced that endzones goal posts or even behind the goal posts towards the back of the endzones
That's one of the reasons it was called "The Mistake By The Lake". I liked the $4 grandstand bleacher seats for Jays games back in the 1980s as they were contoured seats with backrests and had that overhang roof to protect you if it started raining. Great value. Better than sitting on those bench seats along the first base line.
If they had built it as a straight "L" shape instead of angling it inward, it would have been fine, especially if they had put the same kind of roof on it that the original grandstand had. It would have still been way far from the football field, though.
What about the Sydney Cricket Ground?
American Baseball stadiums, only
Do you speak like this in real life? If not, don't do it when you're speaking to us. This isn't the beginning of Saturday Night Live.
He is fine what are you talking about
There should have been a mention of Crosley Field in Cincinnati where there was a slope to a terrace in left center field.
Thr Metrodome was a magical place