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The 2022 Ballpark Count is 231
Two hundred thirty-one. Spelled out, that's how many ballparks are collectively
being used by teams in the various US professional baseball leagues in 2022. The
complete pro ballpark list lists the 231 in a state-by-state format, so you'll
know where to find them in the 44 states that have at least one. From Aberdeen
(MD) to Zebulon (NC), all ballparks used by the major leagues, minor leagues and
independent leagues are listed, along with their capacity and year of opening,
on the only page on the Internet that you'll find all the current pro ballparks
detailed.
 2022 Ballpark List  |  2022 Ballpark Changes

2022 Big League Ballpark Schedules
Knowing when the home team is at home is of paramount importance to anyone
traveling to one of Major League Baseball's 30 ballparks, so creating calendar
schedules for them that show the exact dates each team is playing at their homes
in 2022 is certainly a useful aid to any on-the-road baseball fan and trip
planner. That's what Baseball Pilgrimages has done, and you can see the team by
team and ballpark by ballpark results on the Major League Baseball Home
Schedules page, which also includes links to each team's and ballpark's monthly
schedule.
 2022 Schedules by Ballpark

When Ballpark Gates Open in 2022
If you're heading to the ballpark, and it's a major league one, in 2022 and want
to know how early you are allowed inside, then check out the page that answers
the question "When do gates open?" for each of the 30 teams. From only 1 hour
early to 2 hours before game time, each ballpark's gate opening time, which can
vary based on circumstances, is detailed at:
 Gate Opening Times at Major League Ballparks

Abandoned Ballparks: 1999-2021
Every time a team moves, a ballpark gets left behind. At the major league and
affiliated minor league levels, that's happened on 110 occasions over the last
22 years. The year 2020 also included 42 teams getting contracted out of minor
league baseball, greatly inflating the 2+ decade total of ballparks that have
lost their teams with MLB-affiliated status to 152. Those 152 ballparks are
listed and their present status is detailed on the Abandoned Ballparks page,
where a recent update noted five old stadiums were demolished in 2019, thereby
upping the total to 34 of them that are no longer standing. To find out what's
happening with the 118 that still are, check out:
 Professional Ballparks Abandoned Since 1999

Abbreviated 2020 Spring Training Draws Almost 1.8 Million Fans
As a result of having 38.9% of all games canceled due to a pandemic (173 games)
and bad weather (10), only 288 of the scheduled 471 games that MLB teams were to
have played in Arizona and Florida during 2020 spring training occurred. Still,
there were 1,795,119 tickets sold for the games that were played between
February 21 and March 12 in the 23 ballparks used by Cactus and Grapefruit
League teams.
 2020 Spring Training Attendance

Over 76 Million Paid to Watch Major League Baseball in Person
Combining spring training and the regular season, MLB teams sold 76,205,902
tickets in 2017 to games played in their ballparks and regular spring training
facilities, of which there are 23. Major League baseball was played in 31
ballparks during the regular season and the total number of officially counted
game dates from the beginning of spring training on February 24 through the end
of the regular season on October 1 was 2,932. You can see how many fans each
team drew to their regular season and spring training ballpark at:
 Major League Attendance | Spring Training Attendance

Minor & Indy League Ballparks Draw 43,684,534 in 2017
Professional baseball below the major league level continues to be well
attended, as over 43 million tickets were sold by the 201 teams playing in the
19 minor and independent leagues that reported attendance in 2017. To see how
many fans each team drew to their ballpark in '17 check out the league-by-league
breakdowns at:
 Minor League Attendance | Independent League Attendance

2017 Ballpark Tour Guide
When you want to see a ballpark but seeing a game there isn't possible taking a
tour is a great alternate option, and one that is offered by all 30 teams in
major league baseball. To see when the teams' ballparks can be toured, for how
much, how long, and more, check out this year's guide to MLB ballpark tours.
 2017 Tour Guide For Major League Ballparks

Field Turf at Each MLB Ballpark Detailed
The specific greens for each green cathedral are revealed in our account of each
major league team's playing field, where you'll learn that because not all sods
are the same the grass actually can be greener at one ballpark than another. For
the lowdown on the bluegrass, bermudagrass, ryegrass and even AstroTurf found on
the ground of big league ballparks, read on at:
 Major League Baseball Ballpark Grass and Turf

No-Hitters In Current MLB Parks Are Detailed
At baseball's highest level -- the major leagues -- the number of all-time
no-hitters thrown (over the span of 140 years) now stands at 295. But just 90 of
them have been thrown in one of Major League Baseball's 30 current ballparks.
Those 30 ballparks have a collective 769 seasons of use, spanning from only four
completed seasons at Miami's Marlins Park to the 104 recorded at Boston's Fenway
Park, and 3 of them have never been the site of a no-hitter. Of the 27 ballparks
that have, just six of them have hosted more than three no-hitters in their
history. So despite an impressive amount of recent exceptions, as history proves
there is no doubt that a no-hitter is not a common occurrence at today's
ballparks.
 No-Hitters Thrown by Ballpark list

Ballpark Briefs
This website has plenty to say about ballparks. But quotes about ballparks from
others are in no short supply either, so we've started to compile them on the
new “Ballpark Quotes” page... Being a baseball fan turned Eric Kabakoff into a
first-time author. The title of his new book, Rally Caps, Rain Delays and Racing
Sausages: A Baseball Fan’s Quest to See the Game from a Seat in Every Ballpark,
sums up its content. The book was published in October and Baseball Pilgrimages
has posted an excerpt from it... In addition to his book excerpt, Eric Kabakoff
has joined Todd Gimbi as the most recent well-traveled ballpark aficionados to
submit a list of their Top 5 Major League Ballparks... Hitting for the cycle is
something that doesn't happen often -- it's essentially the hitter's equivalent
of a pitcher throwing a no-hitter -- and our newest ballpark research feature is
dedicated to chronicling the 99 cycles that have been hit in MLB's current 30
ballparks. In all, 316 cycles have been hit in 71 past and 22 present major
league ballparks.

Bob Feller Museum in Iowa Recalls His Path to Greatness
Bob Feller died in 2010 but his legacy lives on in his hometown of Van Meter,
IA, where his namesake museum opened in 1995. The Bob Feller Museum is the place
to go to see the cancelled check of $1 that he got in 1935 as a signing bonus
and plenty of other memorabilia and memories from Feller's career, which made
him a first ballot Hall of Famer in 1962, and his life, in which he earned eight
World War II Battle Stars. Cooperstown-esque in its thorough tale of farm boy
done good, the museum's location in a small Iowa farm town gives it a pastoral
setting that makes a visit all the more pleasant.
 Read the article

Talkin' Ballparks With Toledo Mud Hens GM Joe Napoli
Toledo's Fifth Third Field is one of the best minor league stadiums in which
I've witnessed a game. Home to the world famous Mud Hens, the ballpark opened in
2002. The team's current general manager, Joe Napoli, had been on the job well
before then and recently took some time to answer a dozen questions about how
Fifth Third Field came to be and what makes it so remarkable in the second
installment of our Talkin' Ballparks interview series.
 Read the interview

Places to Go, Things to See, All in the Name of Baseball History
Historic markers, memorials, museums and other sites across the country tout
baseball's illustrious history in the places where that history was made. These
attractions are worthy of a pilgrimage in their own right, so Baseball
Pilgrimages has begun to chronicle some of the places to go and things to see
for those who love baseball history. To kick off the series, we made a visit to
parking lot B at U.S. Cellular Field, where a Comiskey Park Tribute outlines the
area that was home to White Sox baseball for 80 years.

10 Great Places For A Baseball Pilgrimage
The fine folks at USA Today asked for and we gave them 10 great minor league
destinations for travelers who enjoy baseball, a list that was published in the
"10 Great Places" portion of their travel section that appears each Friday. From
Buffalo to Sacramento and the eight points in between, we explain in a follow up
to the printed piece that ran on April 2nd why each ballpark and city chosen is
a great place for a baseball pilgrimage in much more detail than space in the
newspaper would allow for.
 Read the story at Baseball Pilgrimages
 Read the article at USA Today

Baseball Pilgrimages on Facebook
Since June of 2009 we've been on Facebook, posting photo galleries of ballparks,
write-ups of baseball road trips and recaps of news about where the national
pastime is played on the Baseball Pilgrimages page, which cleared 10,000
fans/likes in December of 2012. Join what has become a respectable number of
masses by following along at Facebook. If you love ballparks, you won't be
disappointed in the page.



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WALKER'S FIRST GAME


Fluor Field in Greenville - July 20, 2013
My second son, at age almost 21 months, saw his first baseball game in a South
Atlantic League ballpark in South Carolina in the summer of 2013. Greenville's
Fluor Field, a prime example of the modern and family-friendly ballpark, was the
location in which Walker mostly roamed while the Lexington Legends beat the
Greenville Drive. My toddler's first time seeing America's pastime in person is
recounted, with a tip of the cap given to the splendid 'lil ballpark that is
responsible for baseball's success in the Palmetto State city that's best known
as the hometown of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.
 Read the full article





ANOTHER STADIUM FADES INTO OBLIVION


Drillers Stadium Loses the Drillers
The cliché is true. If you build it, they will come. It being a ballpark and
they being a baseball team. Of course, "they" have to leave somewhere to arrive
and when that happens a current ballpark becomes a former one. That happened
quite a bit in the decade that is just about to end; 63 times in fact. That's
counting major and affiliated minor league teams, one of which is the Tulsa
Drillers, who left their self-titled stadium in the county fairgrounds for new
corporate sponsored downtown digs.
 Read the full article
 Abandoned ballparks list







ZACHARY'S FIRST GAME


McCormick Field in Asheville - July 5, 2009
My 8-month old son saw his first baseball game on the evening of July 5th. The
venue was an old one: Asheville's McCormick Field, established in 1924. Zachary,
at 244 days, enjoyed the Tourists' 7-6 victory over the visiting Charleston
RiverDogs primarily from the comforts of his mother's lap in a bleacher seat
behind the home team dugout, where our rookie in life enjoyed the old ball game
on a night in which rain drizzled intermittently during his inaugural immersion
in America’s national pastime.
 Read the full article







MAJOR LEAGUE BALLPARK TOURS


What You Need to Know to Become A Ballpark Tourist
There are 30 major league ballparks and all but two of them offer tours guided
by team employees. A ballpark tour takes fans from the dugout to the press box
and many points in between. Besides exposing fans to places normally off-limits,
a tour enlightens those in attendance about public areas usually overlooked and
facts previously unknown. Whether or not catching the home team at home is
possible, a tour of their ballpark is a fulfilling opportunity that all baseball
fans are sure to enjoy and is a memorable experience provided by all teams
except the Marlins and Mets.
 Read the full article







THE RICKWOOD CLASSIC


Baseball's Ultimate Throwback Game - Birmingham, AL
It's one thing to "turn back the clock" and wear retro uniforms, quite another
to play in a throwback ballpark. But every year that's what the Birmingham
Barons do, much to the delight of ballpark fans everywhere. Rickwood Field,
built in 1910, is an ageless wonder, a baseball playground of generations past.
Lovingly restored, it is the oldest ballpark in the nation to host professional
baseball thanks to the annual Southern League game that's played there. That
game is known as the Rickwood Classic.
 Read the full article
 See the photo gallery







A TASTE OF INTERNATIONAL BASEBALL


Estadio Calimax - Tijuana, Mexico
Ever wonder what it's like to watch America's pastime somewhere where the
English language is scarce? In the Mexican League, the game on the field looks
familiar but the experience in the stands is anything but normal. Girls dressed
like strippers on top of the dugout, a mascot on the field during the game, and
lots of music are just a few things that will detract your attention from
players you've never heard of. But it all adds up to a very lively, and
intoxicating, atmosphere.
 Read the full article







BATTING PRACTICE


Catch It If You Can
The average life of a Major League baseball is only six pitches, but the
likelihood of catching a foul ball is very remote due to the size of the
ballpark and competition from thousands of fans. For most fans, batting practice
is the only chance to get a ball as players successfully swing for the fences in
front of small gatherings. With balls landing in relatively empty seats the
likelihood of catching – or at least retrieving – one would seem simple. At
least that's what I thought while trying to snag a souvenir during BP in
Houston.
 Read the full article







HOMECOMING IN WASHINGTON


CONSOL Energy Park in Washington, PA - August 22, 2009
We didn't have a professional baseball team when I grew up in Washington, PA in
the 1980s. That all changed when the since renamed Falconi Field opened in 2002
and the Washington Wild Things were born. Well after my former hometown joined
the rarefied ranks of cities with pro ball I finally got to experience the
thrill of seeing a game there.
 Read the full article






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BOOK EXCERPTS


BALLPARKS OF THE DEADBALL ERA


Ron Selter writes about Burns Park in Detroit, the best hitter's park of the 34
used during the Deadball Era (1901-19).




WATCHING BASEBALL SMARTER


Zack Hample writes about situations that umpires encounter during a baseball
game.




THE CHATTANOOGA LOOKOUTS & 100 SEASONS OF SCENIC CITY BASEBALL


Stephen Martini writes about how Clark Griffith shaped the history of baseball
in Chattanooga by bringing Joe Engel to town.




10 MYTHS OF SPRING TRAINING


Joe Connor dispels ten myths about attending baseball's spring training.




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Welcome to BaseballPilgrimages.com
On March 16, 2001, after saving up enough vacation time to take two weeks off, I
arrived in Melbourne, Florida for Spring Training. Coinciding with my arrival
was an unexpected phone call, informing me that I had been laid off, another
casualty of the dot-com bust. And so the journey began when my personal
misfortune afforded me the time to do what I had always wished: travel the
country. Add to that my passion for baseball, and most of my trips have included
numerous baseball pilgrimages, hence the name of the site. And when my original
car died on the way to Vero Beach for a game on my Spring Training journey of
2002, I bought a new one and embarked on a cross-country trip to California.

What started out as just a trip to Spring Training has morphed into visiting
ballparks at all levels, from the lowest levels of the bush leagues to the
legendary ballyards in the big leagues. Although I'd been to a number of
ballparks prior to the 2001 season, I decided to use that year as my starting
point. Through nine seasons, I’ve seen 254 games in 100 ballparks and traveled
thousands of miles across our great country in pursuit of the national pastime.
I've been to places I'd never thought I'd go, or probably would not have
considered....all because of a baseball game.

A tour of ballparks is a great way to see America, as professional baseball is
dotted across its landscape. This site is dedicated to all of those who have
taken the journey, or wish to.

  Graham - Smyrna, GA
info@baseballpilgrimages.com
E-mail me your personal baseball pilgrimages if you'd like to be included on the
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