There are plenty of great Major League Baseball parks and stadiums worth visiting in today’s game. Something for just about everyone, from the purists to those in need of top-notch amenities. There’s also something to be said for celebrating the ballparks of the past.
Here are our rankings of 25 parks and stadiums still worth holding near and dear to our baseball hearts. Dates in parenthesis denote the time frame each venue was prominently used for baseball.
A Chicago native, Jeff Mezydlo has professionally written about sports, entertainment and pop culture for parts of four decades. He was an integral member of award-winning sports sections at The Times of Northwest Indiana (Munster, Ind.) and Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette, where he covered the NFL, PGA, LPGA, NCAA basketball, football and golf, Olympics and high school athletics. Jeff most recently spent 12 years in the editorial department at STATSPerform, where he also oversaw coverage of the English Premier League. A graduate of Northern Illinois University, Jeff’s work has also appeared on such sites at Yahoo!, ESPN, Fox Sports, Sports Illustrated and NBA.com. However, if Jeff could do it again, he’d attend Degrassi Junior High, Ampipe High School and Grand Lakes University
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