Re: Oldest Ballparks

Loving this thread. I was born in rural Oklahoma, so growing up it was just Oklahoma State games, watching Pete Incaviglia and Robin Ventura. Then we moved to north Texas and it was 3 iterations of fairly generic stadiums as the Rangers continued to bilk money from the city of Arlington. But in my experience (3 Rangers' stadiums, a college field, and a Round Rock Express game) the best experience was Enron/Minute Maid. It's such a tiny stadium, there's just not a bad seat in the house. And in college, we used to buy the cheapest tickets, and there was this walkway in left field just toward centerfield of the Crawford boxes, and if you could stand for 9 innings, those were front row tickets. Made friends with Shinjo from there when the Mets were in town, and he tossed us a couple of balls when he'd make the 3rd out in an inning.