I encourage you to look more into Louisville. The Kentucky Derby, the first of the three Triple Crown events in thoroughbred racing, is held here the first Saturday in May. It’s a major sporting event in the U.S. and people know the city far more for it than for Louisville Slugger, all due respect to them. We’re also know for basketball, especially for the University of Louisville Cardinals.
@@TheWideWorldofStadiums de nada. I enjoy your work and am pleased you included Slugger Field. I also forgot to mention Lynn Family Stadium, home of our USL Championship and NWSL soccer teams. Gorgeous venue. When you’re driving on the interstate East out of downtown it appears out of nowhere and pops out at you.
Fifth Third is a bank that is located primarily in the Midwest. The unusual name was coined during the Prohibition era, where "three fifths" would have been thought of as a reference to alcohol.
I work at NBT Bank Stadium and we just had a $25 million renovation and the park looks so much better. There is a train station just a block away from the stadium so they always blast their horn when going by. Also when we have fireworks the overgrown area catches on fire a few times a year.
N B T bank owns that stadium . really they have 25 million to renovate . Interesting . i just caught these idiots making false statements , on some ones credit report . matter of fact 2 different interest rates same account number . how ever while person was living in house , and refinanced a home equity loan the following month the bank filed foreclosure documents and kept it quiet until the person moved for 3 and a half years 3 months ago they filed another foreclosure , on the same house, same account number . mean while they were using electronic surveillance on customer . I have a lot of friends who are met fans down in southern new York .
In El Paso, they hired a top notch firm to fit a square peg into a round hole......City Hall was knocked down and up came Southwest University Park. It is absolutely gorgeous. Amazing food choices....located in Downtown and like one other stadium, next to the train tracks....hence the USL soccer team that also plays there is called the El Paso Locomotives
I used to go to the Sacramento Rivercats games all the time when I was a kid and when I was in college. Great memories. The view of the Sacramento river and the Sacramento Bridge was priceless. They also had very good minor league teams when the A's owned them and they won a few triple AAA championships.
Man some of the best memories of my life were had in Smith's Ballpark and I just might cry next month when I can finally return after not seeing live baseball for 18 months.
Agreed. I visit the city once a year and make sure to check out a game. They also still don’t have netting down the line as of a few months ago, which makes it even better.
As a Rochester native I gotta say I was surprised when Frontier Field was forgotten about but then thrown at the end with such a lackluster commentary. Maybe in a year or two when some new stadiums get built you'll redo this list with a less disappointing spot for the oldest continually operated minor league team in the country. The rest of the video was great!
as rochester natives we gotta get used to it, always forgotten upon between buffalo and syracuse, in a tiny little corner in the country, in a pretty crappy city, overall just meh
19,000 seat Sahlen Field in Buffalo did become the 2020 Home of the Major League Toronto Blue Jays when the Canadian Border Closed Due to Covid 19 and may also Play Host to Some Blue Jay Games in 2021!!
I had season tickets to the Oakland A's Triple-A team in Sacramento, Rivercats. I saw a Triple-A All star game there. Was such a great experience. Since the Giants kicked out the A's I've never gone back.
For real though, Smiths Ballbark feels like it's closed off from the rest of the world inside. From the lower seats all you can see are the field, the trees and the mountains. It's pretty great!
I went there a few years back.. it was amazing... the night sky from the seats.. the fireworks over the city... and the tickets weren’t too expensive either. Loved it.
best thing about Huntington Park is you can literally watch the game through the right field wall on the sidewalk outside the stadium also, Fifth Third is the name of a bank lol
Being a native of Tacoma, WA, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the killer views of Mt. Rainier from along the third-base side of the field. I worked part of a summer there, and the view on sunny days never stops being amazing. Also, the soccer teams that are currently ground-sharing with the Rainiers - USL Championship side Tacoma Defiance and NWSL's OL Reign - are planning to move into a new 5,000 seat stadium just north of Cheney Stadium, in what Metro Parks Tacoma is calling the Heidelberg Sports Village.
@@jos2136396 That is the plan, so far. But it could still be another year or so because of all the lovely little headaches caused in the process of building a publicly funded sports complex. And the history of building new stadia in the Seattle-Tacoma area on the taxpayer's dime is historically a complex and not always popular process.
Yeah. I just went to a Rainiers game this weekend and our GA tickets were for the R Bar, which I'd never been in before. The mountain was out and the view there was fantastic. Well, not of the game, which we basically couldn't see because the bar was so crowded and they inexplicably have no monitors in the bar area...
I worked for a company in Gig Harbor and I'd crossing the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to go see a Rainiers game. I enjoyed having some Rainier Beer at the ballpark.
I live in Detroit which is less than a hour from toledo ohio. The tigers triple A team is Toledo. So we go down to Toledo a few times a year cuz it's a beautiful stadium and not expensive and a great time while cheering on future tigers players. It's just a ideal situation having are farm team less than a hour away and it's a gem.
Agreed I too live in the area and enjoy going to both Comerica and Fifth Third. The product on the field at Comerica has resembled the minor leagues lately however
@@lionsfan7500 Last year really hurt the young pitching with the minor leagues being postponed. It's starting to feel like the 04' 05' seasons ready to break out like in 06' with all the young talent. Next year maybe some higher caliber free agents? I totally believe in AJ!
@@erikmoyer1788 You make a great point. With no minor league baseball last season, that really hurt the young pitchers and most likely put them a year behind. Your other great point is this will be like 04 and 05 and in 2 years having it all come together.
I went to a Mud Hens game at the old Lucas County Fairgrounds. One of my idiot friends got liquored up & started yelling at and harassing Muddy, the team mascot. Fans around us were getting pissed & so Muddy went after my friend with his plastic bat & proceeded to pummel my dumbass friend! The crowd around us went nuts and started chanting, “Muddy! Muddy! Muddy! I still laugh my ass off about that night 28 years ago!
@@kamelkadri2843 I usually just tell people outside of Texas that I'm from Houston, because when I tell them where I'm actually from I might as well tell them I live in "Candyland"...i.e. they don't believe me.
The Dell Diamond is an amazing stadium to be in. It can be 100 and it feels.10 degrees cooler. Nolan Ryan lent his nickname to the team and his sons run it and he does come occasionally.
The Jumbo Shrimp stadium is actually a fun place to watch a baseball game. Speaking of a missed opportunity, there's actually an old church near the third side of the field that he failed to mention.
This was really interesting seeing the minor league stadiums. My only visit to a minor league game was Memphis to see the Redbirds. The stadium as noted is impressive. An advantage of its location is being so close a walk from Beale street for great barbecue food and blues music. Cards fan from STL
Somebody may have beaten me to this explanation, but Fifth Third Field in Toledo is named after 5/3 Bank. It's a large corporation located primarily in the Great Lakes region, United States. Just a little tidbit of information for you, cool video man! Go Mud Hens
Same with Durham bulls. They were smart and built their stadium next to the American tobacco campus and a lot of cool restaurants and historic places are down there. Just a short walk away, developers will be developing a bunch of new restaurants and hotels on the other side of the campus. Plus, they have a Bull
I've only been to three AAA stadiums: Sugar Land, Round Rock and Louisville. Louisville was the best, by far. I hope to go someday to El Paso and Albuquerque.
All of those stadiums looked good to me. I like for the most part they try to emulate the traditional jewel box major league stadium look, just smaller.
Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark is a beautiful ballpark, highly recommended it. They do have a spectacular Friday Night Fireworks show for Friday Night home games. However, when they built the ballpark I wished they faced the seats towards the downtown Oklahoma City skyline.
6:06 I remember being there at the first coolray field game in 2009, my mom, my dad, my brother, my sister, my grandmother, and myself went to the game, it was an awesome game. I returned two more times for a game at Sports Broadcasting Camp when I was 16, then when I was a senior for a high school baseball game as a manager back in 2016 when I was 20.
Sahlen Field ( 3:15 ) did host the Toronto Blue Jays 2020 season and half of the 2021 season. They made many improvements to make it feel like home for the Jays. I finally got to see an MLB game because of this. woohoo
Well, the International League, the Pacific Coast League, the Eastern League, the Southern League, the Texas League, the Midwest League, the Northwest League, the South Atlantic League, the California League, the Carolina League, and The Florida State League are back starting from 2022 onwards. They also traded "Low a" for Single-A.
@@JayEmAy Wasn't so much "wised up" as "didn't have the rights to them last year". In legal terms, the realignment of the minors consisted of the teams leaving the old minor league corporate structure and joining a new one formed by MLB, and they weren't able to secure the transfer of the old league trademarks in time for last season. Now they have, and so the new leagues have taken the names of the old leagues they most closely approximate.
I know you said for the small population of El Paso but actaully El Paso, Tex might be the biggest city other than a few to have a triple A team..I think they have about 700k
the valley where Salt Lake CIty is situated is currently over 1 million , but we dont have any more room to grow.. its now wala to wall mormon breeding farms LOL (aka giant overblown housing developments with extremely poor planning for congestion etc).
They already did check it out Lived in Tennessee and went to several games at Smokies Park Double AA Chicago Cubs affiliate now living in Southern Maine going to Headlock Field this evening to see the Portland Seadogs play Boston Redsox Double AA affiliate Let's Go Seadogs !!!
@@chrisallen9673 Last time I was there I got to watch a long haired guy tapping his foot before throwing 95 mph fastballs. Never saw anyone pitch like that before. Wasn't long before Mike Clevinger was pitching for Cleveland.
Being a Las Vegas native, it was awesome going from worst 3A ballpark with Cashman Field to possibly the best. Also, as we may get the other Oakland team, LV Ballpark can be expanded to be the A's temp home field until yet another new stadium is built.
Harbor park was incredible… back in 1993. They haven’t done nearly enough remodeling inside the stadium. But (good or bad) next year there’s gonna be a massive casino in the left field parking lot and they’re gonna fix up the dock
to be fair, the use of the money for polar park is more an infrastructure plan than just building a ballpark. they had to redesign one of the most dangerous intersections in Massachusetts
Living in Salt Lake I, of course, believe Smith's Ballpark is the best of the best. It's a great place to watch a ballgame and watch the Wasatch mountains reflect the sundown. It's beautiful and not that far away from being a Major League venue, if even for some exhibition games.
Sahlen field is now a second home for the blue jays until allowed back into Canada while the original team (Buffalo Bisons) is being relocated into Trenton where there Trenton thunder double A team played.
Victory Field was a pioneer in minor league baseball in that it was the start of a trend of very nice ballparks located near the downtown of their city. (Previously, the trend was for ballparks that were less nice and located out in the suburbs.) It's not as special now as it was at the time but it still should have been mentioned. Fifth Third is the name of a major national bank in the United States, formed from the merger of Fifth National Bank and Third National Bank.
@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 Used to live there, used to go out and watch the Indians play. Most of the games I watched were at old Bush Stadium, but I did get to watch a few at the newer Victory Field and those were a nice experience.
I was around when sutter health park was called Raley field for almost my whole life “(I’m 18) so many great memories came there and many more memories to come
Firth Third Field is an absolute dime! Chickasaw Bricktown on the other hand looks like..... are we sure walking dead wasn't filmed there? The grass looks a bit like rotting flesh. Or at least a bacterial infection.
Bill Murray is part owner of the Saints! Lol and You'd have to live there to know but CHS field is near Union depot train station and right near the Mississippi River and lower town St Paul, the stadium has a beautiful rustic train station vibe, from the outside and you CAN see the skyline from inside. They also have beautiful upper level patio style seating, which provides a better view of that. It also has seats behind the outfield. It's pretty neat Also being that the twin cities has some of the best breweries, and it's close proximity to all sorts of dank food I think CHS is the best ballpark in the triple A. Go Raccoons! They also line the inside with lights and open it up for ice skating in the winter
I used to live and work close to this area back in the 70s. (One of my favorite bars, the Depot Bar, was in the area) It sure has changed but while I've never seen the ballpark family member that still lives in the area rave about it.
Fun note, The Saints feature the 2nd smallest ballpark by seating capacity yet they are usually top 5 or better in attendance due to the fact that it has a TON of room for standing room only tickets meaning the ~7,200 seat park can see crowds of over 10,000 on some of it's bigger weekends.
I'm glad you covered all these AAA parks, and I just subscribed! I appreciate your sense of humor as well. I've been to three AAA parks so far: Oklahoma City, Round Rock, and Sacramento. I hope to make it to all the PCL ones at least.
Victory Field and Slugger Field are phenomenal. Been to both, prime downtown locations. Indianapolis was actually mooted for a stretch as an MLB location because of Victory Fields location and easy expandability. I've seen Isotopes Park, but never been to a game. Location isn't bad, near a massive park.
Steamed hams was a gag stolen from a 1990s Simpsons episode where Home mixes up Steamed Clams and hamburgers. I've never been to this stadium... but that's the gag. The narrator doesn't know his Simpsons trivia.
Sutter Health Park, was once called Raley Field. The Rivercats were the minor league team for the A's for years. That stadium would always sell out.Now they are the Giant's minor league team. Here is the thing about this park. It was built so an upper deck could be installed increasing seating to about 35,000. Can you say "Sacramento A's"
Nothing about _Bull Durham_ for the Durham Bulls? And 121 Financial Park (2003) pre-dates the Jumbo Shrimp name (2017). This is going to be Jacksonville's first year in AAA since 1968; they were AA previously.
@@GoalHornGeek Incidentally, CHS Field is small for a AAA park because it was built as an indy league park (American Association) and wasn't a MiLB park until this year. I expect they're going to add more seating in 2022 or 2023.
NBT bank stadium got a huge renovation in 2021, and is gorgeous now! All the colors were changed to be mets colors also.. Trains often go by during games and toot their horns. The overgrown area is a black hole for many of humerus. The stadium is truly one of the nicest parts of syracuse.
Was waiting for a Bull Durham reference during the Durham Bulls park... I got you: "And no, they don't have railroad tracks running through the outfield"
As a Rochester native ouch. Ive been to the Syracuse Mets ballpark it's much diffrent than Frontieer Feild like there was a guy that was talking with a player when he was like 7 rows back. It was kinda annoying but at the same time really cool
@@curtiswelker7245 oh of course. He’s an acquaintance of mine. We hang at the park and talk the team. I get he may be abrasive to a lot of fans, especially people who don’t know him, but i think he is the most genuine, old school New York baseball fan i’ve ever met. He never curses. He gets balls for kids, gets them signed from the players . He attends every game more or less. When the season is wrapping up in late August, especially if we’re in the mix for a playoff spot, he’ll travel to Rochester, or to Scranton... He’s so loud i hear him on the radio broadcast, yelling in an opposing team’s stadium, at their own players. Dude is a wild one, a legend. When the Mets took over the Syracuse team he was over the moon, he’s from Brooklyn and a lifelong Mets fan.
walk on over to Beale street early for some great bbq - take in a game and walk back over for some blues and brews if you are looking for a nice night in memphis.
@@TheWideWorldofStadiums So you intentionally wanted to sound ignorant? Gotcha. From your accent, you might want to stick to soccer, or cricket, & leave American baseball to us in the US. Especially those of us actually who played, coached, & or worked in Pro Baseball. Cute video though.
El Paso Google Earth doesn’t show the recently built 10-story Marriott hotel across the street in CF. It’s a great addition. There’s plenty of photos of the vantage point on Yelp.
Have been to the Indianapolis stadium, Iowa Cubs stadium (Absolutely agree on the try the ham) and Louisville's Stadium. Absolutely would recommend going to all three for anyone who hasn't been there.
Considering that MLB actually runs all of the minor league levels now. That could happen sooner rather than later. But in the end it is decided by the game developer.
While Louisville would definitely be known in the US as the home of Louisville Slugger, it's possible that Louisville is more well known for Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby. Louisville Slugger was founded in 1855, 20 years before Churchill Downs, but the Evan Williams Distillery has been making Bourbon in Louisville since 1783.
I encourage you to look more into Louisville. The Kentucky Derby, the first of the three Triple Crown events in thoroughbred racing, is held here the first Saturday in May. It’s a major sporting event in the U.S. and people know the city far more for it than for Louisville Slugger, all due respect to them. We’re also know for basketball, especially for the University of Louisville Cardinals.
Alright, my bad.
@@TheWideWorldofStadiums de nada. I enjoy your work and am pleased you included Slugger Field. I also forgot to mention Lynn Family Stadium, home of our USL Championship and NWSL soccer teams. Gorgeous venue. When you’re driving on the interstate East out of downtown it appears out of nowhere and pops out at you.
@@briandaugherty9669 Do I know you? I recall a Brian Daugherty who worked at Courier-Journal sports. I did stringing there in the '80s and '90s.
And Muhammad Ali...
Fifth Third is a bank that is located primarily in the Midwest. The unusual name was coined during the Prohibition era, where "three fifths" would have been thought of as a reference to alcohol.
I work at NBT Bank Stadium and we just had a $25 million renovation and the park looks so much better. There is a train station just a block away from the stadium so they always blast their horn when going by. Also when we have fireworks the overgrown area catches on fire a few times a year.
N B T bank owns that stadium . really they have 25 million to renovate . Interesting . i just caught these idiots making false statements , on some ones credit report . matter of fact 2 different interest rates same account number . how ever while person was living in house , and refinanced a home equity loan the following month the bank filed foreclosure documents and kept it quiet until the person moved for 3 and a half years 3 months ago they filed another foreclosure , on the same house, same account number . mean while they were using electronic surveillance on customer . I have a lot of friends who are met fans down in southern new York .
I haven’t been there since it was P&C stadium and the Mets were the sky chiefs lol. Go cuse 🍊
@@jamesjcazzman3007 NBT Bank doesn’t own the stadium, the county owns it. NBT just bought the naming rights to it but they don’t own the stadium.
Cap
I live in Syracuse and I go to lots of games the Mets could be bad but can’t say that about the stadium
I love you’re subtle, monotone, sarcastic humor it’s hilarious
I do too
Yeah but your effort into the getting actual pictures sucks!
In El Paso, they hired a top notch firm to fit a square peg into a round hole......City Hall was knocked down and up came Southwest University Park. It is absolutely gorgeous. Amazing food choices....located in Downtown and like one other stadium, next to the train tracks....hence the USL soccer team that also plays there is called the El Paso Locomotives
I used to go to the Sacramento Rivercats games all the time when I was a kid and when I was in college. Great memories. The view of the Sacramento river and the Sacramento Bridge was priceless. They also had very good minor league teams when the A's owned them and they won a few triple AAA championships.
Then the Giants came along and made them their affiliate
Man some of the best memories of my life were had in Smith's Ballpark and I just might cry next month when I can finally return after not seeing live baseball for 18 months.
The DBAP is an absolutely beautiful stadium. Tons of character and really reflects the city.
Victory Field in Indianapolis is a beautiful stadium. Highly recommend checking out an Indians game if you’re ever in town!
was there for a night game a few years back, really nice place and just a great park to watch a game
@@ekcoasters1266 yeah it really is. Friday Night games are cool too because they always light off fireworks after the game
Agreed. I visit the city once a year and make sure to check out a game. They also still don’t have netting down the line as of a few months ago, which makes it even better.
They do now, but didn’t when I went last year.
As a Rochester native I gotta say I was surprised when Frontier Field was forgotten about but then thrown at the end with such a lackluster commentary. Maybe in a year or two when some new stadiums get built you'll redo this list with a less disappointing spot for the oldest continually operated minor league team in the country. The rest of the video was great!
Not to mention it’s the AAA to the team who won the World Series last year. Just went last week to watch the rail riders. Love watching baseball there
as rochester natives we gotta get used to it, always forgotten upon between buffalo and syracuse, in a tiny little corner in the country, in a pretty crappy city, overall just meh
19,000 seat Sahlen Field in Buffalo did become the 2020 Home of the Major League Toronto Blue Jays when the Canadian Border Closed Due to Covid 19 and may also Play Host to Some Blue Jay Games in 2021!!
I had season tickets to the Oakland A's Triple-A team in Sacramento, Rivercats. I saw a Triple-A All star game there. Was such a great experience. Since the Giants kicked out the A's I've never gone back.
Located in West Sacramento. Nice stadium
Like, why didn’t the Giants stay in Fresno
For real though, Smiths Ballbark feels like it's closed off from the rest of the world inside. From the lower seats all you can see are the field, the trees and the mountains. It's pretty great!
The view from the Charlotte Knights stadium is amazing.
Yeah, it really is. Have seen many games there!
I went there a few years back.. it was amazing... the night sky from the seats.. the fireworks over the city... and the tickets weren’t too expensive either.
Loved it.
Stunning ive been there multiple times
yessir i live there
@@kevinkenyon3431 yea i live there
best thing about Huntington Park is you can literally watch the game through the right field wall on the sidewalk outside the stadium
also, Fifth Third is the name of a bank lol
Being a native of Tacoma, WA, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the killer views of Mt. Rainier from along the third-base side of the field. I worked part of a summer there, and the view on sunny days never stops being amazing. Also, the soccer teams that are currently ground-sharing with the Rainiers - USL Championship side Tacoma Defiance and NWSL's OL Reign - are planning to move into a new 5,000 seat stadium just north of Cheney Stadium, in what Metro Parks Tacoma is calling the Heidelberg Sports Village.
I wanna visit and catch a Bees road game up there so bad. It's gorgeous up there.
So both of the soccer teams are planning to move to the new soccer stadium being built in Tacoma, WA?
@@jos2136396 That is the plan, so far. But it could still be another year or so because of all the lovely little headaches caused in the process of building a publicly funded sports complex. And the history of building new stadia in the Seattle-Tacoma area on the taxpayer's dime is historically a complex and not always popular process.
Yeah. I just went to a Rainiers game this weekend and our GA tickets were for the R Bar, which I'd never been in before. The mountain was out and the view there was fantastic. Well, not of the game, which we basically couldn't see because the bar was so crowded and they inexplicably have no monitors in the bar area...
I worked for a company in Gig Harbor and I'd crossing the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to go see a Rainiers game. I enjoyed having some Rainier Beer at the ballpark.
I live in Detroit which is less than a hour from toledo ohio. The tigers triple A team is Toledo. So we go down to Toledo a few times a year cuz it's a beautiful stadium and not expensive and a great time while cheering on future tigers players. It's just a ideal situation having are farm team less than a hour away and it's a gem.
Agreed I too live in the area and enjoy going to both Comerica and Fifth Third. The product on the field at Comerica has resembled the minor leagues lately however
@@erikmoyer1788 absolutely Erik there have been some sad years at Comerica but hopefully Al Avila's rebuild is going to pay off sooner than later.
@@lionsfan7500 Last year really hurt the young pitching with the minor leagues being postponed. It's starting to feel like the 04' 05' seasons ready to break out like in 06' with all the young talent. Next year maybe some higher caliber free agents? I totally believe in AJ!
@@erikmoyer1788 You make a great point. With no minor league baseball last season, that really hurt the young pitchers and most likely put them a year behind. Your other great point is this will be like 04 and 05 and in 2 years having it all come together.
I went to a Mud Hens game at the old Lucas County Fairgrounds. One of my idiot friends got liquored up & started yelling at and harassing Muddy, the team mascot.
Fans around us were getting pissed & so Muddy went after my friend with his plastic bat & proceeded to pummel my dumbass friend! The crowd around us went nuts and started chanting, “Muddy! Muddy! Muddy!
I still laugh my ass off about that night 28 years ago!
Its called Sugar Land because sugar was cultivated there in the 19th century. Imperial Sugar HQ is only a few blocks fron Constellation Field
the only Sugarland i know is a country Band, a good one might add
@@kamelkadri2843 I usually just tell people outside of Texas that I'm from Houston, because when I tell them where I'm actually from I might as well tell them I live in "Candyland"...i.e. they don't believe me.
The Dell Diamond is an amazing stadium to be in. It can be 100 and it feels.10 degrees cooler. Nolan Ryan lent his nickname to the team and his sons run it and he does come occasionally.
The Jumbo Shrimp stadium is actually a fun place to watch a baseball game. Speaking of a missed opportunity, there's actually an old church near the third side of the field that he failed to mention.
Walk past 5/3 Field (Toledo Mud Hens) everyday. Also work at a restaurant right behind the ballpark
Best triple A ballpark in American,hands down
This was really interesting seeing the minor league stadiums. My only visit to a minor league game was Memphis to see the Redbirds. The stadium as noted is impressive. An advantage of its location is being so close a walk from Beale street for great barbecue food and blues music. Cards fan from STL
Bricktown is one of my favorite places in OKC. Beautiful area and there's plenty of things to do there.
Somebody may have beaten me to this explanation, but Fifth Third Field in Toledo is named after 5/3 Bank. It's a large corporation located primarily in the Great Lakes region, United States. Just a little tidbit of information for you, cool video man! Go Mud Hens
Those clown punches at the Toledo Mudhens play at a cool stadium, plus there's great restaurants nearby. Believe That
Same with Durham bulls. They were smart and built their stadium next to the American tobacco campus and a lot of cool restaurants and historic places are down there. Just a short walk away, developers will be developing a bunch of new restaurants and hotels on the other side of the campus. Plus, they have a Bull
I've only been to three AAA stadiums: Sugar Land, Round Rock and Louisville. Louisville was the best, by far. I hope to go someday to El Paso and Albuquerque.
The Blue Jays are playing at Sahlen Field, the Buffalo Bison are playing at Arm and Hammer Park in Trenton, NJ.
Great video!! I visited 22 of these 30. Dying to get out there in 2021
Have you been to frontier field
All of those stadiums looked good to me. I like for the most part they try to emulate the traditional jewel box major league stadium look, just smaller.
Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark is a beautiful ballpark, highly recommended it. They do have a spectacular Friday Night Fireworks show for Friday Night home games. However, when they built the ballpark I wished they faced the seats towards the downtown Oklahoma City skyline.
Agreed, it’d cool if they had simply rotated the park 180 degrees when they were building it. But still it is a great place to catch a game.
6:06 I remember being there at the first coolray field game in 2009, my mom, my dad, my brother, my sister, my grandmother, and myself went to the game, it was an awesome game.
I returned two more times for a game at Sports Broadcasting Camp when I was 16, then when I was a senior for a high school baseball game as a manager back in 2016 when I was 20.
why did they change the name of the team
Sahlen Field ( 3:15 ) did host the Toronto Blue Jays 2020 season and half of the 2021 season. They made many improvements to make it feel like home for the Jays. I finally got to see an MLB game because of this. woohoo
Same, Best thing ever got to see MLB and MILB games in less than a month
@@yeldalitejadavillar5881 Houston beat us 13-1. Correa hit 2 of them out. I did get to see the lights flicker when Grichuk hit a solo hr 👍
Well, the International League, the Pacific Coast League, the Eastern League, the Southern League, the Texas League, the Midwest League, the Northwest League, the South Atlantic League, the California League, the Carolina League, and The Florida State League are back starting from 2022 onwards. They also traded "Low a" for Single-A.
I'm glad they wised up on that.
@@JayEmAy Wasn't so much "wised up" as "didn't have the rights to them last year". In legal terms, the realignment of the minors consisted of the teams leaving the old minor league corporate structure and joining a new one formed by MLB, and they weren't able to secure the transfer of the old league trademarks in time for last season. Now they have, and so the new leagues have taken the names of the old leagues they most closely approximate.
I know you said for the small population of El Paso but actaully El Paso, Tex might be the biggest city other than a few to have a triple A team..I think they have about 700k
the valley where Salt Lake CIty is situated is currently over 1 million , but we dont have any more room to grow.. its now wala to wall mormon breeding farms LOL (aka giant overblown housing developments with extremely poor planning for congestion etc).
@@ZakhadWOW same with buffalo
I live in El Paso and the population is bigger than Lubbock
Indianapolis might be the largest for the city itself, unless it’s Sacramento. If you count the metro areas it may be Gwinnett (Atlanta).
Las Vegas Valley metro pop is 2.9 million and we only have the Aviators. But soon to have the Athletics too I’m guessing.
Do double a stadiums
Your in luck....
They already did check it out Lived in Tennessee and went to several games at Smokies Park Double AA Chicago Cubs affiliate now living in Southern Maine going to Headlock Field this evening to see the Portland Seadogs play Boston Redsox Double AA affiliate Let's Go Seadogs !!!
Opened with my hometown team! Love going to a Clippers game. It’s a great ballpark
And Columbus is a great city.
Huntington Park is a nice ballpark I've been there several times for games
@@chrisallen9673 Last time I was there I got to watch a long haired guy tapping his foot before throwing 95 mph fastballs. Never saw anyone pitch like that before. Wasn't long before Mike Clevinger was pitching for Cleveland.
@@ripvanrevs I watched Francisco Lindor and Jose Ramirez come up though the system they went from Akron to Columbus to Cleveland in a span 4 months
@@chrisallen9673 Me too! I was their on Lindor’s first game and have watched everyone else.
Who’s here after they changed back to the original league names
Used to live in Memphis. Autozone park is absolutely amazing
Being a Las Vegas native, it was awesome going from worst 3A ballpark with Cashman Field to possibly the best. Also, as we may get the other Oakland team, LV Ballpark can be expanded to be the A's temp home field until yet another new stadium is built.
I doubt they'd build a new ballpark but, rather, just expand on the minor league stadium instead.
A's will just have to play their home games at night
Harbor park was incredible… back in 1993. They haven’t done nearly enough remodeling inside the stadium. But (good or bad) next year there’s gonna be a massive casino in the left field parking lot and they’re gonna fix up the dock
Need to re- build THE BOATHOUSE !
Watched many a great show there.
to be fair, the use of the money for polar park is more an infrastructure plan than just building a ballpark. they had to redesign one of the most dangerous intersections in Massachusetts
Will admit Victory Field is class, very welcoming atmosphere and the staff are super friendly and helpful
Living in Salt Lake I, of course, believe Smith's Ballpark is the best of the best. It's a great place to watch a ballgame and watch the Wasatch mountains reflect the sundown. It's beautiful and not that far away from being a Major League venue, if even for some exhibition games.
Sahlen field is now a second home for the blue jays until allowed back into Canada while the original team (Buffalo Bisons) is being relocated into Trenton where there Trenton thunder double A team played.
Going forward the Blue Jays should have still played a few games there.
Victory Field was a pioneer in minor league baseball in that it was the start of a trend of very nice ballparks located near the downtown of their city. (Previously, the trend was for ballparks that were less nice and located out in the suburbs.) It's not as special now as it was at the time but it still should have been mentioned.
Fifth Third is the name of a major national bank in the United States, formed from the merger of Fifth National Bank and Third National Bank.
Go Indian!! Although not doing too well this season.
@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 Used to live there, used to go out and watch the Indians play. Most of the games I watched were at old Bush Stadium, but I did get to watch a few at the newer Victory Field and those were a nice experience.
I was around when sutter health park was called Raley field for almost my whole life “(I’m 18) so many great memories came there and many more memories to come
Firth Third Field is an absolute dime! Chickasaw Bricktown on the other hand looks like..... are we sure walking dead wasn't filmed there? The grass looks a bit like rotting flesh. Or at least a bacterial infection.
Have you noticed that ta lot of the AAA baseball fields are now _nicer_ than some MLB ballparks?
We love Fifth Third Field. Not a bad seat in the house. Not to mention plenty of pre-game/post game meal options around the area.
You had me waiting for Frontier Field. I have been to games at Sahlen, Frontier and Victory.
5th 3rd is a Bank that had its origins at the corner of 5th and 3rd in Manhattan.
Bill Murray is part owner of the Saints! Lol and You'd have to live there to know but CHS field is near Union depot train station and right near the Mississippi River and lower town St Paul, the stadium has a beautiful rustic train station vibe, from the outside and you CAN see the skyline from inside. They also have beautiful upper level patio style seating, which provides a better view of that. It also has seats behind the outfield. It's pretty neat Also being that the twin cities has some of the best breweries, and it's close proximity to all sorts of dank food I think CHS is the best ballpark in the triple A. Go Raccoons! They also line the inside with lights and open it up for ice skating in the winter
I used to live and work close to this area back in the 70s. (One of my favorite bars, the Depot Bar, was in the area) It sure has changed but while I've never seen the ballpark family member that still lives in the area rave about it.
Rip to the midway💙
Fun note, The Saints feature the 2nd smallest ballpark by seating capacity yet they are usually top 5 or better in attendance due to the fact that it has a TON of room for standing room only tickets meaning the ~7,200 seat park can see crowds of over 10,000 on some of it's bigger weekends.
The Springfield Cardinals stadium is really Great! Classic stadium! Great City!
Love the video but the El Paso’s population isn’t actually small it’s currently at 951,000 people
County maybe.
@@henryjw15 that is the county pop.
I'm glad you covered all these AAA parks, and I just subscribed! I appreciate your sense of humor as well.
I've been to three AAA parks so far: Oklahoma City, Round Rock, and Sacramento. I hope to make it to all the PCL ones at least.
AutoZone Park in Memphis is beautiful and super fun. Not to mention the rendezvous BBQ nachos are amazing
I miss my AAA Edmonton Trappers. Four time PCL champs!
Quad Cities River Bandits have a gem.
Victory Field and Slugger Field are phenomenal. Been to both, prime downtown locations. Indianapolis was actually mooted for a stretch as an MLB location because of Victory Fields location and easy expandability. I've seen Isotopes Park, but never been to a game. Location isn't bad, near a massive park.
5th 3rd Field is probably named after 5th 3rd Bank.
Next do MLB Spring Training stadiums. Located in Arizona and Florida
6:28 I live in jax and the jumbo shrimp are the best team in the city and I love going to games there in the summer because there is so much to do
2:58... Fifth Third is the name of a bank headquartered in Cincinnati, with pretty much the Midwest and Ohio Valley as their core audience.
"I guess it's just a 'principal' thing" - immediate thumbs up
Steamed hams was a gag stolen from a 1990s Simpsons episode where Home mixes up Steamed Clams and hamburgers. I've never been to this stadium... but that's the gag. The narrator doesn't know his Simpsons trivia.
harbor park is just outside downtown and is right across from on the many navy yards. soon to have a casino right next to it
Living in LV, las vegas ballpark should be on your bucket list
Go Aviator!
Nice, been landing in a bunch of these in flight sim 2020!
Sutter Health Park, was once called Raley Field. The Rivercats were the minor league team for the A's for years. That stadium would always sell out.Now they are the Giant's minor league team. Here is the thing about this park. It was built so an upper deck could be installed increasing seating to about 35,000. Can you say "Sacramento A's"
“sacramento a’s” huh? could never happen…
lol
If true that upper deck installation could come in handy right about now.
My favorite AAA ballpark of all time is Owen Bush Stadium in Indianoplace IN. It was a great ballpark.
Nothing about _Bull Durham_ for the Durham Bulls?
And 121 Financial Park (2003) pre-dates the Jumbo Shrimp name (2017). This is going to be Jacksonville's first year in AAA since 1968; they were AA previously.
DBAP isn't the park they were in at the time.
@@katherineberger6329 no but it’s just down the street from it and has a very similar design
@@GoalHornGeek Incidentally, CHS Field is small for a AAA park because it was built as an indy league park (American Association) and wasn't a MiLB park until this year. I expect they're going to add more seating in 2022 or 2023.
Jacksonville minor league baseball will always be known as the Jacksonville "Suns" to us native Jacksonville folk.
@@katherineberger6329 DBAP was built thanks to the success of Bull Durham.
Is there also an Aurora Borealis in the kitchen at Principal Park?
Keep up with the dad jokes, theyre amazing!
Yes, but to be honest, it looks a lot more orange than you'd expect.
Victory Field hands down the best AAA park 💯💯
NBT bank stadium got a huge renovation in 2021, and is gorgeous now! All the colors were changed to be mets colors also.. Trains often go by during games and toot their horns. The overgrown area is a black hole for many of humerus. The stadium is truly one of the nicest parts of syracuse.
AutoZone Park is amazing, it’s in a great location downtown as well
There are a lot of cool stadiums.
NBT Bank Stadium is currently undergoing some renovations
May 4th lets gooooo
great video
I think it is called Bricktown because of how many bricks Russell Westbrook has made when he was a part of the OKC Thunder.
Must have had some accurate psychics in OKC history, as was called that decades before he was born.
Was waiting for a Bull Durham reference during the Durham Bulls park...
I got you: "And no, they don't have railroad tracks running through the outfield"
That was Brewster's Millions.
As a Rochester native ouch. Ive been to the Syracuse Mets ballpark it's much diffrent than Frontieer Feild like there was a guy that was talking with a player when he was like 7 rows back. It was kinda annoying but at the same time really cool
Lloyd may be the biggest, best, and definitely most vocal fan in all of the minor leagues. All the players know him.
@@continuousminer thanks for reminding me of his name it's hard to tell how loud he actually is because the Mets seats are so close to the feild
@@curtiswelker7245 oh of course. He’s an acquaintance of mine. We hang at the park and talk the team. I get he may be abrasive to a lot of fans, especially people who don’t know him, but i think he is the most genuine, old school New York baseball fan i’ve ever met. He never curses. He gets balls for kids, gets them signed from the players . He attends every game more or less. When the season is wrapping up in late August, especially if we’re in the mix for a playoff spot, he’ll travel to Rochester, or to Scranton... He’s so loud i hear him on the radio broadcast, yelling in an opposing team’s stadium, at their own players. Dude is a wild one, a legend. When the Mets took over the Syracuse team he was over the moon, he’s from Brooklyn and a lifelong Mets fan.
The Reno ballpark with the train's going by and the skyline is a great AAA Park
So this is a channel that exists, huh? Instant sub!
Awesome video! Could you please do the American Association of Professional Baseball in a future video? Thank you!!!
I will look into it. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thank u 4 video :) some amazing stadiums:) 🇬🇧🏴🙂
Watched this before but failed to pick up on the steamed hams reference until now. A wonderful surprise
Sutter Health Park, aka Raley Field, is an amazing place to watch a game, especially a night game.
walk on over to Beale street early for some great bbq - take in a game and walk back over for some blues and brews if you are looking for a nice night in memphis.
Your humor is top notch
Fifth third is a bank name, that paid for field naming rights.
You don't say......
@@TheWideWorldofStadiums
So you intentionally wanted to sound ignorant? Gotcha. From your accent, you might want to stick to soccer, or cricket, & leave American baseball to us in the US. Especially those of us actually who played, coached, & or worked in Pro Baseball. Cute video though.
El Paso Google Earth doesn’t show the recently built 10-story Marriott hotel across the street in CF. It’s a great addition. There’s plenty of photos of the vantage point on Yelp.
Harbor Park has some of the best post game fireworks as there right over the river!
Excellent view of a freeway overpass. LOL
That cracked me up each time he said it.
To be fair Crosley Field in Cincinnati was built by a freeway too😂 In fact the late great Jimmy Wynn once hit a home run onto the freeway!
Constellation Field! Home of the Sugar Land Skeeters, new AAA affiliate of the Houston Astros, formerly of the independent Atlantic League.
Have been to the Indianapolis stadium, Iowa Cubs stadium (Absolutely agree on the try the ham) and Louisville's Stadium. Absolutely would recommend going to all three for anyone who hasn't been there.
1:12 when it doesn't flood as it did 1993 and 2008.
When did the El Paso team change their name to the Chihuahuas? I remember going to watch the Diablos.
We need these fields in mlb the show
i agree
Considering that MLB actually runs all of the minor league levels now. That could happen sooner rather than later. But in the end it is decided by the game developer.
While Louisville would definitely be known in the US as the home of Louisville Slugger, it's possible that Louisville is more well known for Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby. Louisville Slugger was founded in 1855, 20 years before Churchill Downs, but the Evan Williams Distillery has been making Bourbon in Louisville since 1783.
Werner Park near Omaha is basically an amusement park that happens to have a baseball diamond in the middle.
Japanese Baseball Stadiums would be a cool video.