It's too bad that after the Raiders moved to Vegas they couldn't have completely gutted all the outfield seating higher than the main outfield seats that were always right above the walls in the outfield in the 1970s, 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, the same as they did in Anaheim right after the Rams went to St. Louis in 1995.
I'm old enough to remember going to games at Connie Mack Stadium/Shibe Park. I saw Willi Mays hit a home run in batting practice over the left field bleachers. But I can also assure you that it had deteriorated terribly by the time the Phillies left it. I remember the whole thing smelling like a big men's room that hadn't been cleaned for a while. There was no parking. You had to find a street spot and either bribe a kid to watch it or just cross your fingers. Everything in it was original construction. It's a candidate for nostalgia today, but back then nobody missed it.
I remember the Pirates and Phillies going at it at Connie Mack. I remember Bob Prince (the Pirates' play-by-play guy) interviewing Richie Allen out on the field after a game on TV. The Phillies had some good teams back then and they always seemed to beat up the Pirates.
@@JohnSmith-zw8vp The location just wasn't right for a ballpark. It was in a halfway-decent position for public transport, but in the late 60's that wasn't enough anymore. The stadium complex they created at the southern edge of the city is actually the perfect location from a regional planning standpoint. It's also at a decent public transport location, at the southern terminus of the same subway line as Connie Mack, near the confluence of both major highways in the city, and near a major bridge to NJ. And there's a lot of parking, which both the Phillies and Eagles old facilities lacked.
Connie Mack was phenomenal. The Phillies ownership group lead by Bill Giles said they wanted to build a replica of Connie Mack. Unfortunately they built Citizen Bank in the Veterans Stadium adjacent parking lot with the look of a prefabbed brick pharmaceutical warehouse with little league dimensions. SAD.
Tiger Stadium may have been built in 1912, but it's immediate predecessor existed on the same site. This is why Tigers fans talk about "the corner of Michigan and Trumbull" because that was the oldest continuous site of professional baseball going all the way back to the 1890's. Unfortunately, the national sports media ignored this.
A video on abandoned stadiums without mentioning the Silverdome? That eyesore stood abandoned for a long time, the roof rotted off of it, and there's tons of pictures available of it before it was demolished. Maybe a stand alone vid on the Silverdome?
Thanks for showing Tiger Stadium! Was so sad how they let the park decay a decade, I bought two seats from there, they were shipped to my house and caked into dust, I had to hose, wash them off before moving them inside. Now the old Tiger Stadium is a multi purpose facility that hosts high school, college and kids baseball, football, soccer events. The exact field remains there, including the dimensions, original flag pole on center field, they have field turf because there is so many events there that grass would be hard maintain. There are a section of seats along the third base line, e line, the funding wasn’t there in time so rest of the stadium was razed in April 2009, demolition of rest of the park began in June 2008, stopped that September leaving the first to third base grand stands before being razed in April 2009 after not securing enough funds. I’m just glad a Walmart or something wasn’t built there, at least kids can play on same field icons like Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, Al Kaline, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays all played on.
I went to Tiger stadium as part of a tour in 1996. i They were hosting the Angels and it was Cecil Fielders' final game as a Tiger. What a pisser they didn't save it like Fenway or Wrigley.
Ebbets Field was vacant for two years before being demolished. Often it's an issue, as the Mysteries Of The Abandoned TV show says, that nobody wants to spend the money to knock down an old structure till they have everything lined up to build what replaces it-- but when there's nothing coming along to replace it, it can just sit there and deteriorate.
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I went to school in Baltimore and I lived in the area for 9 years (1970-78). The Baltimore fans really liked Memorial Stadium. It was in a somewhat nice section of the city, not near downtown. People would park their cars all over on the local streets or take the bus. My most extraordinary experience at seeing the Orioles play was in the spring of 1971. The Orioles were playing the A's in an afternoon double header during the week. It was a "getaway day" on a Thursday. I think they had to play two games because they had to make up a game and the A's wouldn't be back east for the rest of the season. The first game started early, before noon. A friend at school asked me to go with him to the stadium, which was within easy walking distance. So we went. The pitchers that day were Mike Cueller vs Vida Blue, and Jim Palmer vs Blue Moon Odom. Amazing. But then years later came the dark night in which the beloved Colts left town in moving vans. Nobody saw it coming, and it devastated the town. After I left the area, the city built Camden Yards downtown. But you know, I liked Memorial Stadium because it was located in a residential area, and it seemed so homey and local. People would just walk over there, pay a few dollars, grab a seat, eat a hotdog, and watch the Orioles play. Pretty darn cool.
There is actually still a baseball field where Tiger Stadium was called the "Willie Horton Field of Dreams at The Corner Ballpark" or just The Corner as its always been known. It's home to the Detroit Police Athletic League and a lot of local youth baseball teams play there as well. They have a lot of old Tigers memorabilia there and it still has the original flagpole. Its too bad the stadium is long gone but it's great it still gets used for its original purpose.
It's too bad for them not to have thought of preserving the original broadcast booths just behind the backstop along the facade of the upper deck at its exact same heights above the ground, sad lol's.
I'm from the Detroit area as well. Grew up with many many awesome memories of tiger stadium, and I watched its slow destruction that took years. Glad to see they still use the site as an athletic field and didn't build housing projects or some other stupid thing on the site.
How did anyone forget the Astrodome? That thing has been abandoned since the Mid-2000s. They don't want to knock it down for historical purposes, can't get funding to refurbish it and they use it for city storage.
I understand the dome in Houston is off limits to the public because of possible asbestos hazard inside? They wouldn't allow Peyton (Manning) Places series in there when he reunited three Oilers players, Elvin Bethea, Dan Pastorini and Ray Renfro they simply set up a pseudo tailgate in the parking lot for the interview, lol.
When I was in the Military back in the late 80’s, I was stationed in Hawaii and enjoyed watching many Football games at Aloha Stadium. One that really stands out was the 1987 Aloha Bowl between UCLA & Florida. The 2 MVP’s of that game were Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith.
That’s SHIBE Park!! The final Phillies game at Connie Mack Stadium was Oct 1, 1970. It was located at 21st and Lehigh in N. Philadelphia. It caught fire because of vandalism and arson. There’s a church on that site
@@blacksunshine1089 You could say the same about Old Comiskey Park. That was the oldest park in the majors, and considering the extent to which they went to save Wrigley Field, which was literally falling apart, they could have put enough renovations in it to keep it around. Reinsdorf just gets off on making the taxpayers buy him new places...
I can remember the night the Atl. Braves played a night game on the cable superstation WTBS after earlier in the day there had been a massive fire on the mezzanine level (same as the press box and broadcast booths) at Atl.-Fulton County Stad., it may have been in the early '90s or the middle '80s(?), I simply don't recall when this happened, the fire crew was hanging around inside the park during the game as well finishing up their work.
East O'ahu resident here. Aloha Stadium did actually host a regular, 3 game MLB series in April 1997 between St. Louis and San Diego, dubbed the Paradise Series. I remember watching several Hawaii Islanders minor league baseball games in the late 70's into the mid 80's at Aloha. It was often an odd experience, with maybe 1500 or so in attendance at the games. spread out among the 50,000 seats. The stadium usually looked mostly empty during the games I attended.
I quarterbacked my HS team to a state title in the Rubber Bowl. Very sad to see it's status now. Went to see it myself a little while ago. It's old and crummy now, like me.
The Detriot Lions stadium was also abandoned. It sat for years decaying before being demolished. It was featured on the '90s sitcom Home Improvement with Tim the Toolman Taylor
The Billy Crystal movie 61 used Tiger Stadium for the baseball scenes. They decorated the place with the facade to make it resemble old Yankee Stadium.
I have seen many games at the Rubber Bowl when the Zips had great teams. Also seen the Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys and many other concerts there. But it was about 5 miles from the Akron U. campus. They now have a great stadium on campus now. But boy do they suck.
Before it was renovated to become Memorial Stadium the baseball field was reversed in that home plate was in centerfield etc. It was home to the AAA Orioles after the original Oriole Park burned down on July 3, 1944. My great uncle had tickets to the July 4 game.
The 1940s were a fascinating time in Baltimore pro leagues with the aforementioned International Lea.(AAA) Orioles, the beginning of the pro basketball Baltimore Bullets who would dethrone the reigning champion Phila. Warriors (now Golden St.) in the 1948 finals and the arrival after a lone year of the Miami Seahawks pro football team that became the original Baltimore Colts team with the green and silver-gray colors in 1947.
The DC United played in RFK from their inception until Audi Field opened in 2018 so it was still being used regularly and it's still standing now just locked in a bureaucratic mess with much of the debate on it being home to the new Commanders stadium which the US Government seems to have been more open to so we'll see.
Metropolitan Stadium in Minnesota is now the Mall of America and they still have the location of home plate and Harmon Killebrew's longest home run marked.
There were so many stadiums mentioned so I don't remember, but was the Expos stadium talked about? I thought that one stay abandoned for the longest time until very very recently
I'm from Detroit, and being a baseball fan, Tiger Stadium holds a lot of memories to me. When I was a kid back in the mid sixties, my dad took me and my brothers to see a Tigers-Senators game. It was a doubleheader, as were a regular part of the schedule back then. At that time, I believe that the great Ted Williams was managing the Senators, and I had no idea of it. My parents used to call it Briggs Stadium ( because of the family that owned it up until then.). Briggs Stadium actually used to host Negro League baseball games, and in some instances, the Detrout Stars ( the local Negro League team) would out draw the Tigers, even when the Tigers played the Yankees. I used to love watching Tigers games on TV, especially from the 1970s through the 90-s, when it was hosted by George Kell and Al Kaline( two former Tigers- and both of them, Hall of Famers).
I remember Ted Williams as manager of the Senators. It seemed just about every third 10 cent pack of Topps baseball cards I would buy in '70 had his card in it. I think Williams also went on to manage the Rangers first season in Arlington, TX in '72, after they relocated there from Washington. I had a chance to attend a Royals-Tigers game in '72..my family was visiting Greenfield Village and my parents gave me the option to go to that game while the rest of the family enjoyed GV. I didn't think any tickets to the game were available, ( '72 Tigers were a good team) so I stayed with my family at GV. That was only time I ever had the chance to visit Tiger Stadium in my life, and I've regretted ever since not trying to get a ticket to that game!
I was born in 1971, so I was very fortunate in the fact I was able to go to many many games at Tiger Stadium and it will always have a special place in my heart! You brought up how George Kell and AL Kaline use to be the local tv announcers. Those 2 GENTLEMEN were magic calling games together. I have so many great memories of my grandma, and my cousin and myself as a kid watching Tiger baseball together on WDIV Local 4, and those were just special memories from my childhood.
@@lionsfan7500 YES. That was my youth, too. Kell started on WJBK-TV2 in Detroit, and I think he teamed up with Larry Osterman doing Tigers games. Later on, he teamed up with Kaline when they went to WDIV-Channel 4 Detroit, and then it ended with WKBD-TV Channel 50. Man, I miss those days. Baseball was so much fun to watch back then.
Connie Mack was phenomenal. The Phillies ownership group lead by Bill Giles said they wanted to build a replica of Connie Mack. Unfortunately they built Citizen Bank in the Veterans Stadium adjacent parking lot with the look of a prefabbed brick pharmaceutical warehouse with little league dimensions. SAD.
If not saved it, then built Comerica in stages replacing it, so the Tigers could still brag about playing on the oldest continuous site for professional baseball.
btw its SHIBE park, not shRibe. Ive seen several videos where you get this wrong, and several have corrected ya on it lol. Anyways, good vid, keep it up
Metropolitan Stadium the only one of those venues to which one can say that the surrounding deteriorating neighborhood helped in the teams getting a new venue.
I used to be a DC United seadon ticket holder back for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. RFK was just absolutely horrid. I was embarrassed for the team having to play there and host games.
Very familiar with Schibe Park as it was a truly legendary ballpark. One of, if not the original, jewel box parks. Have not heard of Schribe Park though.
You forgot Exhibition Stadium in Toronto was abandoned for like 4 years before they tore it down then another 7 years before rebuilt it as BMO Field in 2006
An interesting topic would be stadiums which have been repurposed. The former Bush Stadium in Indianapolis, home of the AAA Indianapolis Indians, comes to mind. It is now an apartment complex, with the apartments occupying the grandstands.
Depressed Ginger-- like your vids, watch most of your stuff Would love you to do a video on Herndon Stadium in Atlanta Was where morris brown played Hosted the olympics It is where the movie drumline was shot Now in disarray and filled with graffiti Was abandoned a few years back Slated to be be torn Would make a cool episode with all the history that has taken place there
Were there any attempts back in the day to save Shibe (there's no r sound in it), Crosley, Forbes, Sportsmans, or the Polo Grounds? Or did no one care back then and was just all like, out with the old, in with the new?
I was thinking about how awesome that would be to go to a game there today kinda like a Wrigley or Fenway. Then I saw it's at 21st and Lehigh. North Philly.
Why don’t they build another stadium like Schribe Park? Surely they could make a state of the art modern stadium with that old architecture exterior. Imagine that on a new stadium it’d be a wonder of the world
It's sad what RFK has become. It was never a palace by any means, but the character was so strong back in the 70's 80's and 90's when Washington was still good in the NFL. If they're bulldozing that place, then they should build a new nice stadium there so the "Commanders" can move out of that pit in Landover, MD and get back to playing football in the District again. Complicating things is that the Landover stadium is owned by the Football Team, the mess that is the D.C. government is tasked with running RFK, and the land where RFK is.. belongs to the National Park Service. So you'd need 3 or 4 major entities to be on the same page. Also, fun fact about Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.. they hosted a CFL team for a few years, and even won the Grey Cup.. it was also the only stadium in the U.S. at the time, that could easily fit the wider/longer CFL field dimensions.
It’s time for the NFL to build UH a new stadium. Benefits the University along with providing an end of the year treat to the nfl athletes & their families! (ProBowl)
RE: Tiger Stadium in Detroit, MI; moving 2 "Blow-Me-Erica" (i.e.: Comerica) Park being a downgrade is a B.F.IU. (Big Fuckin' Understatement). 4 personal reasons related 2 Conerica Bank; I refuse 2 step foot inside that ballpark.
That baseball stadium shride park had awesome architecture, why don't they make them like that anymore. It's sad 😢as f'*CK they tore that down instead of fixing it.,, WTF is wrong with people😣😞😖😞 l
I know the Silverdome is gone. When I was making automotive deliveries in the area, the Silverdome was gone but its entre lot was all fenced in. I've been to at least ten games there and a Led Zeppelin concert and I thought the sight lines for football were good!
If you're calling it "Schribe Park," you don't remember it.
I’ve only been saying this for months now
Also known as Connie Mack Stadium
Shibe is really hard to pronounce though. 😂
They left to play at Vitamins Stadium …..you know, The Vit
@@andrewalden8364no it isn’t 😂
You missed the Pontiac Silverdome, that had some of the craziest photos from inside of it after it was abandoned, especially after the roof caved in.
The Oakland Coliseum is currently abandoned, but a few thousand people still show up about 81 times a year.
Of course it's abandoned, last time I checked for them it's the off season
It's too bad that after the Raiders moved to Vegas they couldn't have completely gutted all the outfield seating higher than the main outfield seats that were always right above the walls in the outfield in the 1970s, 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, the same as they did in Anaheim right after the Rams went to St. Louis in 1995.
@@gregpaspatis9425Aren’t the A’s moving to Vegas too?
@@RB01.10 Not yet, not until the relocation committee approves the move sometime in November
Good 1
I'm old enough to remember going to games at Connie Mack Stadium/Shibe Park. I saw Willi Mays hit a home run in batting practice over the left field bleachers. But I can also assure you that it had deteriorated terribly by the time the Phillies left it. I remember the whole thing smelling like a big men's room that hadn't been cleaned for a while. There was no parking. You had to find a street spot and either bribe a kid to watch it or just cross your fingers. Everything in it was original construction. It's a candidate for nostalgia today, but back then nobody missed it.
I remember the Pirates and Phillies going at it at Connie Mack. I remember Bob Prince (the Pirates' play-by-play guy) interviewing Richie Allen out on the field after a game on TV. The Phillies had some good teams back then and they always seemed to beat up the Pirates.
So there was nothing that could've been done to save it?
@@JohnSmith-zw8vp The location just wasn't right for a ballpark. It was in a halfway-decent position for public transport, but in the late 60's that wasn't enough anymore. The stadium complex they created at the southern edge of the city is actually the perfect location from a regional planning standpoint. It's also at a decent public transport location, at the southern terminus of the same subway line as Connie Mack, near the confluence of both major highways in the city, and near a major bridge to NJ. And there's a lot of parking, which both the Phillies and Eagles old facilities lacked.
Connie Mack was phenomenal. The Phillies ownership group lead by Bill Giles said they wanted to build a replica of Connie Mack. Unfortunately they built Citizen Bank in the Veterans Stadium adjacent parking lot with the look of a prefabbed brick pharmaceutical warehouse with little league dimensions. SAD.
Tiger Stadium may have been built in 1912, but it's immediate predecessor existed on the same site. This is why Tigers fans talk about "the corner of Michigan and Trumbull" because that was the oldest continuous site of professional baseball going all the way back to the 1890's. Unfortunately, the national sports media ignored this.
A video on abandoned stadiums without mentioning the Silverdome? That eyesore stood abandoned for a long time, the roof rotted off of it, and there's tons of pictures available of it before it was demolished. Maybe a stand alone vid on the Silverdome?
I’ve always been so fascinated by abandon stadiums
Thanks for showing Tiger Stadium! Was so sad how they let the park decay a decade, I bought two seats from there, they were shipped to my house and caked into dust, I had to hose, wash them off before moving them inside. Now the old Tiger Stadium is a multi purpose facility that hosts high school, college and kids baseball, football, soccer events. The exact field remains there, including the dimensions, original flag pole on center field, they have field turf because there is so many events there that grass would be hard maintain. There are a section of seats along the third base line, e line, the funding wasn’t there in time so rest of the stadium was razed in April 2009, demolition of rest of the park began in June 2008, stopped that September leaving the first to third base grand stands before being razed in April 2009 after not securing enough funds. I’m just glad a Walmart or something wasn’t built there, at least kids can play on same field icons like Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, Al Kaline, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays all played on.
I think the corner looks cool with pal stadium and new townhouses
I went to Tiger stadium as part of a tour in 1996. i They were hosting the Angels and it was Cecil Fielders' final game as a Tiger. What a pisser they didn't save it like Fenway or Wrigley.
Ebbets Field was vacant for two years before being demolished. Often it's an issue, as the Mysteries Of The Abandoned TV show says, that nobody wants to spend the money to knock down an old structure till they have everything lined up to build what replaces it-- but when there's nothing coming along to replace it, it can just sit there and deteriorate.
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Hey ! ! ! How could you overlook the Houston Astrodome? ! ?
I went to school in Baltimore and I lived in the area for 9 years (1970-78). The Baltimore fans really liked Memorial Stadium. It was in a somewhat nice section of the city, not near downtown. People would park their cars all over on the local streets or take the bus. My most extraordinary experience at seeing the Orioles play was in the spring of 1971. The Orioles were playing the A's in an afternoon double header during the week. It was a "getaway day" on a Thursday. I think they had to play two games because they had to make up a game and the A's wouldn't be back east for the rest of the season. The first game started early, before noon. A friend at school asked me to go with him to the stadium, which was within easy walking distance. So we went. The pitchers that day were Mike Cueller vs Vida Blue, and Jim Palmer vs Blue Moon Odom. Amazing. But then years later came the dark night in which the beloved Colts left town in moving vans. Nobody saw it coming, and it devastated the town. After I left the area, the city built Camden Yards downtown. But you know, I liked Memorial Stadium because it was located in a residential area, and it seemed so homey and local. People would just walk over there, pay a few dollars, grab a seat, eat a hotdog, and watch the Orioles play. Pretty darn cool.
RFK Stadium was the home stadium of DC United until Audi Field opened in 2019.
There is actually still a baseball field where Tiger Stadium was called the "Willie Horton Field of Dreams at The Corner Ballpark" or just The Corner as its always been known. It's home to the Detroit Police Athletic League and a lot of local youth baseball teams play there as well. They have a lot of old Tigers memorabilia there and it still has the original flagpole. Its too bad the stadium is long gone but it's great it still gets used for its original purpose.
Yep, thats right, with luxury apartments around it
It's too bad for them not to have thought of preserving the original broadcast booths just behind the backstop along the facade of the upper deck at its exact same heights above the ground, sad lol's.
I'm from the Detroit area as well. Grew up with many many awesome memories of tiger stadium, and I watched its slow destruction that took years. Glad to see they still use the site as an athletic field and didn't build housing projects or some other stupid thing on the site.
How did anyone forget the Astrodome? That thing has been abandoned since the Mid-2000s. They don't want to knock it down for historical purposes, can't get funding to refurbish it and they use it for city storage.
I understand the dome in Houston is off limits to the public because of possible asbestos hazard inside? They wouldn't allow Peyton (Manning) Places series in there when he reunited three Oilers players, Elvin Bethea, Dan Pastorini and Ray Renfro they simply set up a pseudo tailgate in the parking lot for the interview, lol.
When I was in the Military back in the late 80’s, I was stationed in Hawaii and enjoyed watching many Football games at Aloha Stadium. One that really stands out was the 1987 Aloha Bowl between UCLA & Florida. The 2 MVP’s of that game were Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith.
I jogged past RFK stadium on Sunday morning (08 Oct 23) and was still fully standing.
That's shocking if that's still standing that mean something didn't happen maybe Georgetown football could play there
There's a cool video on RUclips of some guys who broke into RFK not that long ago and looked around. Cool to see what was still there.
@dontedrake2316 The stadium was derelict. Just bare concrete and fenced off but definitely still standing.
Tiger Stadium was beautiful.. R.I.P Sparky Anderson & Willie Hernández ~ 1984 WS Champions
That’s SHIBE Park!! The final Phillies game at Connie Mack Stadium was Oct 1, 1970. It was located at 21st and Lehigh in N. Philadelphia. It caught fire because of vandalism and arson.
There’s a church on that site
RFK was a cool survivor for so long...
All these stadiums you speak of DESERVED to be torn down.
They served their time and then they didn't.
True. You never want to keep a stadium in use past its expiration date. See Oakland Coliseum.
Tiger Stadium should have been preserved. It was an icon. Tearing down such an iconic venue is akin to sending a classic car to the crusher.
@@blacksunshine1089 You could say the same about Old Comiskey Park. That was the oldest park in the majors, and considering the extent to which they went to save Wrigley Field, which was literally falling apart, they could have put enough renovations in it to keep it around. Reinsdorf just gets off on making the taxpayers buy him new places...
You should do a whole video on current and past stadiums that caught fire. Fenway Park, Fulton County Stadium, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, etc
I can remember the night the Atl. Braves played a night game on the cable superstation WTBS after earlier in the day there had been a massive fire on the mezzanine level (same as the press box and broadcast booths) at Atl.-Fulton County Stad., it may have been in the early '90s or the middle '80s(?), I simply don't recall when this happened, the fire crew was hanging around inside the park during the game as well finishing up their work.
@@gregpaspatis9425 I remember that too.
I was by Aloha Stadium last week. It’s pretty worn out. A lot bigger than I imagined. Sad a city the size of Honolulu can’t have any sports.
The problem with Honolulu is the expense, time and travel to and from Hawaii.
@@davester1970Yep.In the middle of the Pacific.
East O'ahu resident here. Aloha Stadium did actually host a regular, 3 game MLB series in April 1997 between St. Louis and San Diego, dubbed the Paradise Series. I remember watching several Hawaii Islanders minor league baseball games in the late 70's into the mid 80's at Aloha. It was often an odd experience, with maybe 1500 or so in attendance at the games. spread out among the 50,000 seats. The stadium usually looked mostly empty during the games I attended.
I quarterbacked my HS team to a state title in the Rubber Bowl. Very sad to see it's status now. Went to see it myself a little while ago. It's old and crummy now, like me.
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Keep up the good work!
The Detriot Lions stadium was also abandoned. It sat for years decaying before being demolished. It was featured on the '90s sitcom Home Improvement with Tim the Toolman Taylor
There were 3 white seats way up in the upper deck at RFK where Frnak Howard hit long homeruns.
SINCE MINNESOTA WENT TO A DOME, VIKINGS HAVEN'T BEEN TO A S.B.😖WHEN VIKINGS PLAYED OUTSIDE THEY WE'RE FEARSOME🥶
The topic is about old stadium s not about teams and their championships or lack thereof
Word. Might be only a coincidence, but it's true. Also,since the field was not all that wide,BOTH teams used the same sideline at the Met.
@@michaelleroy9281 I'M ON MY OWN TOPIC, I'M AMERICAN🦅YOU MUST BE FROM CCHHIINNAA WERE YOU GOTTA STAY ON TOPIC🇨🇳
Jim Marshall took a fumble almost 70 yards to the house at the Met.. Problem was it was the wrong way
@@KBillysSoundsOfThe70s-iz3op Actually, I believe that occurred at a Vikings-Niners game at Kezar.
DG, when you say "As always I'm the Depressed Ginger" on the outro it adds some flavor! You gotta let the folks know who you are 🤣🤣!!
The Billy Crystal movie 61 used Tiger Stadium for the baseball scenes. They decorated the place with the facade to make it resemble old Yankee Stadium.
I have seen many games at the Rubber Bowl when the Zips had great teams. Also seen the Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys and many other concerts there. But it was about 5 miles from the Akron U. campus. They now have a great stadium on campus now. But boy do they suck.
Before it was renovated to become Memorial Stadium the baseball field was reversed in that home plate was in centerfield etc. It was home to the AAA Orioles after the original Oriole Park burned down on July 3, 1944. My great uncle had tickets to the July 4 game.
The 1940s were a fascinating time in Baltimore pro leagues with the aforementioned International Lea.(AAA) Orioles, the beginning of the pro basketball Baltimore Bullets who would dethrone the reigning champion Phila. Warriors (now Golden St.) in the 1948 finals and the arrival after a lone year of the Miami Seahawks pro football team that became the original Baltimore Colts team with the green and silver-gray colors in 1947.
The DC United played in RFK from their inception until Audi Field opened in 2018 so it was still being used regularly and it's still standing now just locked in a bureaucratic mess with much of the debate on it being home to the new Commanders stadium which the US Government seems to have been more open to so we'll see.
Metropolitan Stadium in Minnesota is now the Mall of America and they still have the location of home plate and Harmon Killebrew's longest home run marked.
There were so many stadiums mentioned so I don't remember, but was the Expos stadium talked about? I thought that one stay abandoned for the longest time until very very recently
My favorite abandoned stadium was old cardinal stadium in Louisville Kentucky. Sat abandoned for 20 years before being demolished in 2019.
I'm from Detroit, and being a baseball fan, Tiger Stadium holds a lot of memories to me. When I was a kid back in the mid sixties, my dad took me and my brothers to see a Tigers-Senators game. It was a doubleheader, as were a regular part of the schedule back then. At that time, I believe that the great Ted Williams was managing the Senators, and I had no idea of it. My parents used to call it Briggs Stadium ( because of the family that owned it up until then.).
Briggs Stadium actually used to host Negro League baseball games, and in some instances, the Detrout Stars ( the local Negro League team) would out draw the Tigers, even when the Tigers played the Yankees. I used to love watching Tigers games on TV, especially from the 1970s through the 90-s, when it was hosted by George Kell and Al Kaline( two former Tigers- and both of them, Hall of Famers).
I remember Ted Williams as manager of the Senators. It seemed just about every third 10 cent pack of Topps baseball cards I would buy in '70 had his card in it. I think Williams also went on to manage the Rangers first season in Arlington, TX in '72, after they relocated there from Washington. I had a chance to attend a Royals-Tigers game in '72..my family was visiting Greenfield Village and my parents gave me the option to go to that game while the rest of the family enjoyed GV. I didn't think any tickets to the game were available, ( '72 Tigers were a good team) so I stayed with my family at GV. That was only time I ever had the chance to visit Tiger Stadium in my life, and I've regretted ever since not trying to get a ticket to that game!
I was born in 1971, so I was very fortunate in the fact I was able to go to many many games at Tiger Stadium and it will always have a special place in my heart! You brought up how George Kell and AL Kaline use to be the local tv announcers. Those 2 GENTLEMEN were magic calling games together. I have so many great memories of my grandma, and my cousin and myself as a kid watching Tiger baseball together on WDIV Local 4, and those were just special memories from my childhood.
@@lionsfan7500 YES. That was my youth, too. Kell started on WJBK-TV2 in Detroit, and I think he teamed up with Larry Osterman doing Tigers games. Later on, he teamed up with Kaline when they went to WDIV-Channel 4 Detroit, and then it ended with WKBD-TV Channel 50. Man, I miss those days. Baseball was so much fun to watch back then.
I know its a minor league park but cooper stadium in columbus ohio which closed in 2008 is still half way standing
I was just about to say the same thing. I wonder what they'll end up doing with that property.
Photos of ANY ballpark being demolished are sad.
Connie Mack was phenomenal. The Phillies ownership group lead by Bill Giles said they wanted to build a replica of Connie Mack. Unfortunately they built Citizen Bank in the Veterans Stadium adjacent parking lot with the look of a prefabbed brick pharmaceutical warehouse with little league dimensions. SAD.
They should have saved Tiger stadium somehow
If not saved it, then built Comerica in stages replacing it, so the Tigers could still brag about playing on the oldest continuous site for professional baseball.
My most vivid memory of Memorial Stadium in Baltimore was when a small plane crashed into the bleachers in December of 1976.
It's very sad to see Stadiums.
It’s sad that Tiger Stadium couldn’t be saved in 2008 😢(1912-2009)
Surprised the Astrodome wasn’t on the list.
btw its SHIBE park, not shRibe. Ive seen several videos where you get this wrong, and several have corrected ya on it lol. Anyways, good vid, keep it up
@depressedginger... Why do you remember it as Shribe Park, if it is Shibe Park?
Metropolitan Stadium the only one of those venues to which one can say that the surrounding deteriorating neighborhood helped in the teams getting a new venue.
I used to be a DC United seadon ticket holder back for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. RFK was just absolutely horrid. I was embarrassed for the team having to play there and host games.
Very familiar with Schibe Park as it was a truly legendary ballpark. One of, if not the original, jewel box parks. Have not heard of Schribe Park though.
Baltimore Memorial Stadium was home to the Bowie Baysox minor league team in their first year.
SHIBE (rhymes with Jive or Dive) there's no R in that name.
You forgot Exhibition Stadium in Toronto was abandoned for like 4 years before they tore it down then another 7 years before rebuilt it as BMO Field in 2006
An interesting topic would be stadiums which have been repurposed. The former Bush Stadium in Indianapolis, home of the AAA Indianapolis Indians, comes to mind. It is now an apartment complex, with the apartments occupying the grandstands.
By the comments I think it’s called shribe park not shibe
Easy to Google the correct answer... Shibe.
The Pirates AAA baseball team played in Hawaii's Aloha Stadium.
Old Yankee Stadium DIDN'T go right away.
Depressed Ginger-- like your vids, watch most of your stuff
Would love you to do a video on Herndon Stadium in Atlanta
Was where morris brown played
Hosted the olympics
It is where the movie drumline was shot
Now in disarray and filled with graffiti
Was abandoned a few years back
Slated to be be torn
Would make a cool episode with all the history that has taken place there
The stadiums didn’t go anywhere. The stadiums were abandoned.
Shibe Park, not Shribe!
Were there any attempts back in the day to save Shibe (there's no r sound in it), Crosley, Forbes, Sportsmans, or the Polo Grounds? Or did no one care back then and was just all like, out with the old, in with the new?
It was called Shibe Park, NOT Shribe Park
I was at the last game there.
Did ya get a chair?@@JFM1170
Shibe Park.
I was thinking about how awesome that would be to go to a game there today kinda like a Wrigley or Fenway. Then I saw it's at 21st and Lehigh. North Philly.
Yes@@flyguydca30
Tiger Stadium was a great ballpark. They never should have left.
2:57 Metropolitan Stadium for football had both teams on the same sideline. Very unusual.
I have a feeling that Tropicana Field will languish empty past 2030.
Thanks
How are you uploading so frequently wtf
Random, RFK was the first donut and the last still standing lol
Why don’t they build another stadium like Schribe Park? Surely they could make a state of the art modern stadium with that old architecture exterior. Imagine that on a new stadium it’d be a wonder of the world
It's sad what RFK has become. It was never a palace by any means, but the character was so strong back in the 70's 80's and 90's when Washington was still good in the NFL. If they're bulldozing that place, then they should build a new nice stadium there so the "Commanders" can move out of that pit in Landover, MD and get back to playing football in the District again. Complicating things is that the Landover stadium is owned by the Football Team, the mess that is the D.C. government is tasked with running RFK, and the land where RFK is.. belongs to the National Park Service. So you'd need 3 or 4 major entities to be on the same page.
Also, fun fact about Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.. they hosted a CFL team for a few years, and even won the Grey Cup.. it was also the only stadium in the U.S. at the time, that could easily fit the wider/longer CFL field dimensions.
Those stadiums dead-ass had good decor and all that stuff.
Is Texas Stadium or the old Sportatorium still around?
I remember it as Shibe, Shibe, Shibe. Great vids, but get it right dude.
It’s time for the NFL to build UH a new stadium. Benefits the University along with providing an end of the year treat to the nfl athletes & their families! (ProBowl)
"Schribe Park?' I believe it was 'Schibe' Park.
Lighten up commenters , so he mispronounced a stadiums name ; so what , we don’t need every other comment to point that out…
My brother it is Shibe Park not Shribe Park
Thought there was a Pacific Coast minor league baseball team that played at Aloha Stadium.
What's Schwibe Park?
Obstructing-view columns just aren't acceptable anymore to sports patrons. Anyplace that still has them is doomed to come down.
There is no “R” in Shibe Park.
good video, but hearing you call Shibe Park Shribe was a little odd.
Dude, it was SHIBE PARK, not SHRIBE PARK.
That would be 'Shibe Park", aka Connie Mack Stadium, in the heart of the North Phila ghetto
And he wonders why it couldn’t be saved. Not only the neighborhood was a death trap but the stadium itself was a shithole in its final years.
There's great footage of fans destroying old met stadium on you tube after the last Viking game.
Mall of America sit where Metropolitan Stadium use to be.
It was Shibe park not Shribe park
RE: Tiger Stadium in Detroit, MI; moving 2 "Blow-Me-Erica" (i.e.: Comerica) Park being a downgrade is a B.F.IU. (Big Fuckin' Understatement). 4 personal reasons related 2 Conerica Bank; I refuse 2 step foot inside that ballpark.
Metropolitan stadium had to be one of the ugliest stadiums ever built, both for baseball and football
FYI - No "r" in "Shibe"
RFK was built for baseball. Every seat faces 2B.
Metropolitan Stadium replaced by The Mall of America
It was sad going to the met center for an event and seeing old met stadium decaying for a few years
Aloha stadium is really rusty due to salt water
I heard of Shibe park never heard of Shribe park Lol
They have to demolish it bit by bit because of asbestos
Where's the Astrodome???
That baseball stadium shride park had awesome architecture, why don't they make them like that anymore. It's sad 😢as f'*CK they tore that down instead of fixing it.,, WTF is wrong with people😣😞😖😞
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the should have re-built candlestick on candlestick. Levi blows
Astrodome? Silverdome?
I know the Silverdome is gone. When I was making automotive deliveries in the area, the Silverdome was gone but its entre lot was all fenced in. I've been to at least ten games there and a Led Zeppelin concert and I thought the sight lines for football were good!
Deliveries in 2019
Shribe Park? Tribe Park? Get a clue, dude. SHIBE PARK.
Shibe Park