0:22 fun fact about Camden Yard's warehouse: they built the stadium around the warehouse (which was built in the late 1800s) and there are little disc shaped placards in the concrete on Eutaw St (the patio-like area between the stadium and the warehouse) describing when and who hit each of those home runs balls. it's a beautiful park!
debjoy12 thank you I’m a O’s fan and know a lot of history on the warehouse. If I remember it had a area where trains came outside it idk one thing if I wasn’t right I forgot. :/ also bad English
Alot of these aren’t stupid and it gives a uniqueness to the field. the worst has to be the statues in old yankee stadium that’s just stupid and dangerous at same time
MANCHESTER UNITED that’s 100% false. I quit soccer when I was 3 bc it was that boring. Also I’m pretty sure that a sport that’s called America‘a pastime will never be overtaken by a sport as lame as soccer
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The fountains at the Royals stadium actually make sense, since Kansas City is nicknamed the “City of Fountains” for having the most working fountains in the world (more than Paris and even Rome).
@@charityquill4965 Those windows are almost never hit. You'd have to hit a 500 or so foot home run. They are deep in centre field over 5 stories above the field
It’s these areas that really add to the greatness of baseball. The stadiums of baseball are cool in that they don’t all have to have the exact same dimensions and features like in other sports, which really makes it unique
I think of "weird" as being things that affect play: things like the Camden Yards warehouse, the Kansas City fountains, the Houston train, and the SF bay are picturesque, but not really weird: they don't change the game. Things like the Wrigley ivy, the Green Monster, Tal's hill, and the Tampa catwalks really do affect play, and are part of what makes baseball so interesting: players don't have to deal with ground rules or little quirks on basketball courts, hockey rinks, and football fields.
Haha that sounds awesome. The only redeeming thing we have at the oakland Coliseum is a bunch of new bars and mount davis for some high altitude when it gets warm.
The Yankees on field monuments are so crazy I almost didn’t believe it was real when I first saw it. A little too extreme but I like having wacky variations like that in stadiums.
I absolutely love oddities with baseball fields. It should be a requirement, but no hills!! I played college baseball and there was this one field we played at where right field all the way to center field was a big ass hill. I'm talking at the fence it was at least 20ft higher than the rest of the field. When people told me about it before I actually saw it I was just thinking it was a pretty good incline from the infield to the fence, but nope it was very high LOL!!
One of the coolest things I've ever seen having been to at least 20 MLB stadiums, was seeing a home run hit at Wrigley and ending up on the street. It's such a rare occurrence nowadays and I was lucky enough to witness it in person.
Back before the "Monster Seats" went in at Fenway, righties with pop used to hit balls out to the Mass Pike (Massachusetts Turnpike, for you non-New Englanders) from time to time. I seem to remember Rice and Evans each doing it a couple times.
Well, if you're gonna include the Allegheny and SF Bay, you might as well include the Wrigley Field rooftops (before the renovation, of course, with Kingman's blast down the Waveland side street and Glenallen Hill hitting one onto the roof across Waveland...)
I don’t think it’s been done before, but it’d be cool to see someone hit a HR off the Minnie & Paul sign at Target Field, but that’s easily a 450 ft. shot to CF
The Monument footage almost gave me a heart attack from laughing! The guy is trying to field the ball without hurting the statues directly in his way. Now that's baseball!
That’s because the Twins cheated. By turning on/off the air conditioners depending on which team batted. This allowed air to blow in toward the plate when it was on. They also piped in noise through the loud speakers making it seam the crowd was louder than it was. They cranked it up, when visiting team was batting. They cheated at home. X players talk about it today. It was no secret then either.
I’ve been to Camden yards before. That home run has a plaque, and I saw it it’s my own eyes. It’s a really cool place to watch a game. I highly suggest going there
0:25 grriiiiffyyyyyy 2:08 is that the kingdome if so hay look one of the og Seattle Mariners parks and I think the Seahawks played there to I wouldn’t know I don’t follow football as much as I do baseball and hockey 2:57 hay look the Seattle mariners
Oof the old metrodome I remember going to baseball games in the metrodome and it was one of the best time I ever had was the first game I went to and it was in that stadium. Lotta memories with that place
awesome video really. What about Shea bridge in Citi Field? Can you do a part 3? For the home run apple in Citi Field you could've done one of the times Travis d'Arnaud had experiences with the apple, like his playoff bomb of the apple or the time when it didn't come up when he hit a dinger.
Ebbets Field had two weird home run areas: the left field foul line began as a bannister (painted white) in the stands that ran to the pole which was many rows up. In centerfield, there was a fenced-off area known as "the enclosure." A ball dropped into this triangle was ruled a home run.
How about Greene's Hill in Globe Life Park for the Rangers? Here's the Wikipedia entry on Greene's Hill: "Greene's Hill is a sloped section of turf located behind the center field fence at the home field of the ballpark. The Hill serves as a batter's eye, providing a contrasting background behind the pitchers which enables hitters to more easily see the baseball after the pitcher's release. It was originally designed as a picnic area for fans but the Rangers have never initiated this policy. It was named after former Arlington mayor Richard Greene in November 1997. For a couple of years in the 2000s, the Rangers had the "T" from the Texas Rangers logo mowed into the grass, but this is no longer done. In 2010, the Rangers started a tradition where they had four girls run around on it with giant Texas state flags when the Rangers scored, similar to what many football teams do when their teams score. Unlike most batter's eyes, fans are allowed to run onto the hill to catch a home run." As a Rangers fan, I would love to see this one.
biggest pet peeve in baseball and this is probably extremely weird but i always felt that the primary seats should be the sides and the out field and then behind the catcher is the monuments
I remember when Bank One Ballpark first opened the pool was mocked a lot by the media and announcers for the opposing teams as a ridiculous gimmick. They didn't understand that it was supposed to represent part of Arizona culture, given the vast amount of swimming pools we have here.
That was the color of Pittsburgh Pirates at the time. Back in those days, some teams had much brighter uniforms than the blanks white or very light grey ones that makes many teams look the same.
Took a tour of camden yards a couple years ago. They put all shatter proof glass in the old train station/warehouse building, thinking the players would break the windows. That HR right there during the HR derby is the ONLY one to ever hit the building. All other HR's land on Eutaw street.
The cutout behind/beside it is... and after showing the weird bits of field like the triple alley in San Fran in part 1 and the Fenway triangle here, when it came up, I thought he was gonna show some of the weird catches made kinda behind that corner of the wall below the Crawford Boxes.
Cool video. I forgot about the statues ion the Field in Yankee stadium. The hill in center field at Minute Maid / Astros stadium didn’t make the video ? That’s a change the Astros should have never made. It was a very cool feature in that park.
