Avista Stadium was named after Avista, the biggest electric company in the Spokane region. The playing field has won many awards from the old Northwest League. #GOSPO
I am also proud to have worked at Dozer Park for 13 years for my summer job. Thank you to everyone who I ever worked with selling or taking tickets. It was an honor. We laughed and had fun every day. When I worked my last game I knew I would never have so much fun "working" ever again.
Day Air Ballpark used to be one of three similarly named baseball stadiums under the Fifth Third Field title, as all three used to be sponsored by Fifth Third Bank. It's a nice venue to see some top-tier Minor League baseball.
I really hope you add Nat Bailey Stadium in Vancouver to a future one, or re-edit this one to include it. I was hoping to hear your thoughts on a stadium named after a guy famous (locally) for his hamburger franchise! Keep up good work!
not sure if anyone gives a shit but if you're bored like me atm then you can stream pretty much all of the latest movies on InstaFlixxer. Have been streaming with my brother for the last couple of months =)
Being from the hometown of where Dow Diamond is and working there for the last five years, it's honestly an amazing ball park for lower level minor league ball. Until this year the Loons have been the Low-A affiliate of the Dodgers. The ball park has a massive video board in right field, a kids play place in foul territory in right field right next to a big hill of grass seats. A wonderful pavilion in left field foul territory with food and drink, working fire places around the outfield for those cold nights in April and May in Michigan, and it's own radio station housed in the suite level. It's an amazing ball park and one of my favorites to ever go to.
I’m near comstock park so I’ll happily take the whitecaps as my home town team. Also A.J’s is really fun (the mini golf and go kart place by Lmcu ballpark).
THE ROME BRAVES!!! That river is the Oostanaula River! There are some popular Braves that started out here in Rome. Austin Riley, Freddie Freeman, Ronald Acuña Jr., Ozzie Albies just to name a few!
I live in Greenville. Personally, I miss the Braves AA team but I digress. Flour is nice and situated truly in the Westend of Downtown Greenville whereas the G braves were way off down in Mauldin 30 minutes farther south. The Drive is nice but you don’t see nearly as many players end up in the Bigs. We had Tom Glavine & Chipper Jones, both Hall-Of-Famers, as well Andrew Jones and a tonne of others come through the G-Braves. Got to see Michael Jordan play there when he was with the Barons. Loads of rehab outtings from Pitchers. Seemed like Atlanta always sent them to Double A for rehab stents. Single A is not as exciting. And also, the Wisconsin Timber Rattles field sucks it’s just awful with that artificial infield and natural grass outfield. That red roof Makes me wanna check into a room for some reason too. I hate it.
You skipped the prettiest little ballpark in the world, Nat Bailey Stadium, home to the Vancouver Canadians (high A west). Oldest manually operated scoreboard. Beautiful views of a park and downtown. Just because the team has to play in the US this year because of Covid doesn’t mean it isn’t a high A ballpark!
I can't help but feel that Parkview Field got way undersold here. It's easily the nicest minor league park, regardless of class, that I've ever been to
Great video! The reason all the stadiums out west look way worse, is until this year they used to be low A stadiums. MLB realigned a lot of these teams this last off season.
the "coral" you referenced in Wilmington is actually just aged old bricks... also speaking of politicians from Wilmington, president Bidens victory speech was done in one of the parking lots of Frawley stadium
MLB "realignment" shut down my hometown A+ Team. The Hangar, once home of the Lancaster Jethawks, located in Northern L.A. County. L.A. County is the most populated County in the USA that no longer has a Minor League Team. Nothing like paying only 12$ to sit behind home plate. RIP 1996-2020
McCormick Field may be my favorite MiLB park ever. Fantastic place to see a game. I love the rickety old field, and the fans...it's like everybody knows everybody else. And to watch a home run disappear into the trees is such a thing of beauty.
"Ron Tonkin" owned a huge Portland auto dealership. And while Funko Field (or whatever they call the place in Everett nowadays) looks uninspiring in fly-bys, it's actually a quite pleasant place to watch a game.
Always enjoy these videos! I hate to give you more work, but there's a ton of great/interesting independent league baseball stadiums and stadiums that used to be part of Minor League Baseball before the recent reorganization that I'd love to see get videos as well. Would also love a video on the MLB Spring Training stadiums, some pretty cool ones there too!
The stadiums in High-A West are all moving up from Short Season. Outside of Spokane, they weren't exactly designed to be big time ballparks. I go to a lot of Aquasox games, and Funko Field is not a great place to watch a game other than being really close to the field. Concessions are not good, the surrounding area is not safe, but the staff of the team/stadium do work very hard to put on a great show. A side note about the stadium in Hillsboro. The football and baseball stadium share a big walkway that houses the concessions. The stadium that is attached to it hosts D1 Portland State University and a lot of high school championship games.
I went to the Aquasox game this season because my dad's cousin is a private pitcher coach for one of the Aquasox pitchers. I thought Funko Field was a pretty cool Field for a high A team. Also, I thought that Concessions were super good for a High A team. all around it was a great field.I had a good time there other than it being really hot that day I went to the game.
This is great, awesome work! I always love taking my son to a hometown game. Try to quite a bit. Watching the Spokane Indians play. Always such a great time. Avista Stadium is simple, but nice. Everyone that works there is nice, down to earth. The food is great and reasonable prices. There are 4 mascots. Ribby is awesome, haha. And the games are always great to watch.
My dad actually did the concrete overlay around the concourse at Parkview Field. We got free ticket to like four games that season, as well as the league's All-Star game, which was there that year.
If you do Low A don’t be fooled by LECOM park in Bradenton. It says opened 2010 but it actually opened as City Park in 1923 and has been remodeled. One of the oldest stadiums in baseball still used by an MLB team.
I like artificial turf. Been to Pasco many times and there is nothing there. Still surprised they did not put the ballpark along the Columbia River. Love these videos. I am more of a low minor league fan than a Major League or AAA fan.
The entire California League, along with the Florida State League, were both demoted to Low A from High A, so Lake Elsinore will probably be featured in the next video.
I clicked on this video specifically because of Nat Bailey stadium and the Vancouver Canadians but they weren’t included, hopefully another video will have them cause it’s a really nice ballpark
Have been to over 90 major and minor league ballparks and McCormick Field is as close to perfection as you can get. Great and enthusiastic fans, great setting, good food, and reasonable prices. If they just served Cheerwine you would have baseball perfection.
I used to go to Beloit Snapper games a lot and on bobblehead days, there would always be a long line. I remember there used to be this one dad and his sons who would walk through the line giving popsicles to the kids all the time. It was pretty cool
Great to see Dow Diamond on this list! If you've never been there, check it out. 2 story store, great food, suites are nice, and not a bad seat in the house.
@@TheWideWorldofStadiums I thought I might Get Lucky and see another concert .. sadly they called it a day.. don’t think they liked touring .. they are Human After All
I grew up going to Aquasox games and playing football on the field behind Funko field. I can say the atmosphere brought by fans is great. The stadium is utter trash, most high school parks are nicer than that place. Oh the view is amazing, you have a wonderful view of the Cascades, have to give it that .
Modern Woodmen Park was previously named John O'Donnell Stadium, after one of our prominent sports writers in the Quad Cities. We hate it that the name was changed.
2:42 Truist was a very nice ballpark to be at. In 2018, I went there and watched a 12-10 walk-off Grand Slam in the 10th inning. Featuring future White Sox star Yermin Mercedes.
Fox Cities stadium is really nice! It's easy to get to off the highway, it's 30 minutes SW of Green Bay making it a nice minor league park to get to even for out of towners (Milwaukee is 2 hours from GB). I've been there many times and it's always a good time.
While not in use for this season for obvious reasons, there is one stadium that went from being a Class A Short Season park to a High-A one this year, that being Scotiabank Field at Nat Bailey Stadium in Vancouver, normally the home of the Canadians. It's located within an actual park. I've been to it once myself, and it's pretty nice there.
Need to also do a video of major independent league baseball stadiums. Home of the former Triple-A and 3rd oldest ballpark in the US behind Fenway and Wrigley, Bosse Field in Evansville, IN is home of the Otters and has a long history of local greats who have played or coached there that went on to the major leagues. It also has links to Hollywood with A League of Their Own staring Tom Hanks.
the small field he referred to by Ripken stadium is a mini version on Camden Yards in Baltimore. the other fields are Yankee stadium, Wrigley, memorial park, and fenway
Funko field is actually a great ballpark. It might not look that good but they have made improvements over the years to make it more up to date. Great place to watch a game it's a little cold in April and when the season starts cause it's by the puget sound. The aquasox and Everett city council are making plans for a new ballpark.
I'm with most, we love cheap tickets so Minor League Baseball fits our bill, they also take time to talk to the fans when warming up as the Major league players could care less.
Fox Cities Stadium is also home to the Wisconsin State Baseball Championships. And they schedule games in a way that a few times a year you can catch a minor league game in the afternoon in Appleton and make the drive to Milwaukee in time for a Brewer game
I know this may not have a grand interest but how about summer college leagues. I live near one in Bristol Connecticut, Muzzy Field. Babe Ruth hit his first homerun there. It's old but beautiful though
The problem with Funko Field is that it was originally a low A ballpark so it isn’t Super suited for high a baseball. The other thing is that it’s one of the oldest stadiums in the high A west, and it’s actually owned by the Everett school District
Love the stadium, hate the name: Truist Stadium in my hometown of Winston Salem...the name just flows terribly (was better as BB&T Ballpark, but the bank is now Truist Bank). The Greensboro stadium is nice too.
In Brooklyn, the right-field bleachers have been removed and now if you sit on the third-base side, you'll get a spectacular view of lower New York Bay the Atlantic Ocean, all the way to the horizon.
First energy Park is the best. I live 15 mins from there and I highly recommend checking it out. It has an arcade and Beer Garden, lawn seats, a mini golf course and every Thursday is Thirsty Thursday which is $1 beers.
@@larareed4353 best thing ever. I’ve been going to that park since it opened, it’s opening day was actually my 5th birthday. The exact day and I thing it’s the most fan friendly minor stadium in the tri-state area. So many events, significant people doing autographs, and fun activities at the park
The west stadiums were the “short season A” stadiums. The West “high A” is the California League. Lake Elsinore, Inland Empire, Modesto, Visalia, San Jose, Stockton, Rancho Cucamonga, Fresno. Great videos though! Awesome actually.
The stadium in Winston Salem is nice but it was expensive. Ended up being something like $48 million. They also just finished completely ripping out the highway you see and redoing in in a very fancy way. That wasn't cheap either but it really did have to be replaced and it all looks really nice now.
A Synagogue in South Bend, Indiana. No doubt the students at Notre Dame attend services every Saturday before going to see the Fighting Irish play football.
The difference between High A and Low A is that Low A is geared more toward new MLB draftees. It's got a lot akin to the previous Short-Season Class A format, though it's not a short season.
Update, MCU Sponsorship on the Brooklyn Cyclones’ ended in 2021. And now the stadium is now Maimonides Park. Named after the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, as a native Brooklynite. Go Cyclones
Love how you go over these lesser known grounds. I'd love it if you did English rugbyeague stadiums including the lower leagues. They're ugly as fuck in a lot of the time but they have a lot of history
