The Ugliest Ballparks In Baseball
If you’re going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on something, you should try to make it not suck.
1. Tropicana Field — Tampa Bay Rays
Why: Just look at it. The Trop (which is also one of the worst nicknames in sports by the way) is plain, cold, antiseptic, and looks straight out of the ’70s. Not a good look.
2. Minute Maid Park — Houston Astros
Why: Too much old-tiimey kitsch (a train that goes by when a home run is hit?) and a freaking hill in center field that’s in play. The former Enron Field (how great is that in hindsight?) is garbage.
3. Marlins Park — Miami Marlins
Why: This one may actually be uglier than Minute Maid, but as it’s hosted one regular season game, it’s too early to tell. What is already evident is the fact that the park is gaudy and way too loud. Look at that home run celebration sculpture! It’s like something out of a bad Spanish-language game show.
4. Chase Field — Arizona Diamondbacks
Why: Part of a new generation of semi-anonymous parks with windows in the outfield and retractable roofs (Miller Park in Milwaukee, Marlins Park in Miami, and to a lesser extent Safeco Field in Seattle), Chase Field is just forgettable. When you’re in there on a nice day (which I have been) you still don’t totally feel outside. You just feel like you’re in a house with the windows open.
5. Angel Stadium Of Anaheim — Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim
Why: Besides the terrible naming convention of both the ballpark and the team, the ballpark itself is incredibly plain, with one exception. It has a giant pile of rocks in center field. Why? I don’t know. But it’s ugly as hell, unless you’re really into the aesthetic of mini-golf.
6. Kauffman Stadium — Kansas City Royals
Why: Kansas City’s ballpark has been outdated for years, so when they announced that they’d be doing major renovations on the park, it had me hopeful they would do a way with the ugly crowned jumbotron in center. Nope. Now it just has a better screen.
7. Oakland Coliseum — Oakland Athletics
Why: Well it’s a football stadium, so there’s an entire upper deck that is closed off. Even when the place is semi-crowded (which is rare) it doesn’t look like it is. Ballparks thrive on intimacy to the action. It makes a park feel electric when things get tense or meaningful. But in Oakland, people in the first row are as far away from the action as people in the 30th row at other parks. If any team needs a new home (in Oakland!) it’s the A’s.
8. Rogers Centre — Toronto Blue Jays
Why: It’s a relic of another time. Much like The Trop it screams 1970s (even though it was built in the ’80s), but at least in Toronto’s case the place isn’t totally antiseptic (and gets some sun in there thanks to the retractable roof). It just pales in comparison to the newer ballparks that began in the mid-’90s (Camden Yards in Baltimore, Progressive Field in Cleveland).
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Colter Langan a year agoMost of these are horrendous, true, but the ugly part is how much these debacles cost the cities where they were regurgitated. Ebbets Field would be spinning in it’s grave, if it weren’t covered over by apartment buildings. Props though to The Blue Jays field for appearing to be made of green parquet, like the shoddy old Celtics floor in the former Boston Garden. sumb (snickering under my breath.)
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kea718 a year ago
Did you know the Marlins stadium has a pool?? It does. It’s one of the only stadiums with a pool. And it’s massive. I still hate it, as I’ve mentioned more then once and will continue to mention anytime the stadium I mentioned in a post. They really fucked us over with that damn stadium that nobody’s gonna wind up going to.
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kea718 a year ago
You’re saying that statue thing at the Marlins stadium is like something out of a Spanish game show, but wouldn’t that make sense considering the stadium is in Miami, in fact it’s practically in the heart of Little Havana. I’d say it’s pretty fitting considering how loud and gaudy Miami is. Keep in mind, I hate the stadium, but that’s because of how much it ended up costing us tax payees and I miss the orange bowl. The problem with the stadium is not how it looks, the problem is with how bad it ended up screwing over so many people
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matthewp12 a year agoAngels Stadium isn’t ugly. The “pile of rocks” in center field has a waterfall and geysers that shoot into the air when someone hits a home run.
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Things a T-Rex does a year agoThe Trop just looks like a 1970s Mall. But I like the Skydome.
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J a year agoYou missed the shining baseball field they stuck in downtown Omaha for the world series. They have christmas trees growing in the stadium. Brand new stadium, spent way too much on it, and they only use it for two weeks out of the year…and as a christmas tree farm. (They may have removed the trees since last year, but we won’t know til June!)
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JonHaven360 a year ago
Tropicana Field is a shithole! It’s dirty! It has complicated rules for when the ball hits a certain beam. The Rays deserve better.
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JonHaven360 a year ago
Tropicana Field is a sh*thole! It’s dirty! It has complicated rules for when the ball hits a certain beam. The Rays deserve better.
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carterrhombusl a year agoKauffman stadium is absolutely beautiful. If you are referring to the old stadium yes it is ugly but if you have ever been there in the past few years you couldn’t even think it’s anything short of awesome
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Hipster Doofus a year agoThere is no stadium uglier than Oakland’s. It’s like being in a concrete prison. I only hope they get a chance to use as a setting for some post-apocalyptic arena combat scene in a movie, or real life, if it comes to that. It’s Oakland, so that’s always a possibility. Also, I think the Royals scoreboard is kitch-classic.
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