Stadium: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Date Opened: April 6, 1992
Date of Visit: June 17th
Game: Houston Astros @ Baltimore Orioles
Regarded as one of the most beautiful parks in all of baseball, Camden Yards houses the Baltimiore Orioles. It is similar in style to our home ballpark (Rangers Ballpark in Arlington) which will be sure to make us happy.
An interesting quirk of this stadium is that over the 25 foot wall in right field, there is a huge warehouse that looks on to the field. It is the most reconizable part of the park and gives the stadium more of the "old time" feel that the designers were looking for. This park started the trend of placing ballparks with old-time feels in downtown areas.
Though the stadium has a nice feel, the scoreboard just seems a little bit too small for my liking. We are sitting in the upper deck though, so we will be able to see pretty much everything nicely. Also, the out of town scoreboard is good for us because the Rangers will be playing and we need to know the score!
The game may be an interesting one between two teams that no one really knows too much about. They are both playing well now, but are they for real or fluking?
Overall, this stadium is reviewed as one of the best in the MLB and i can't disagree. It seems like a great place to watch a baseball game and we should enjoy ourselves a lot. Let's hope the food is good!
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