How many Pro stadiums/parks/tracks have you been to?

kyhawk · Feb 3, 2005

I am not including college. Lots of great memorys here. Some of these are now history like the Met in Minn. [They used to have bat days and kids would bang miniture bats against metal floor. I think Fish and I probably were at the same game some time as kids]. Another time, My dad was determined to see opening day when A's were a dynasty and Vida Blue was opening day pitcher. Froze my asss off.
Anyway, My list

I am dating my self on lots of these.

MLB

Met Stadium...MN... now site of huge mall

HHH Dome MN...baseball should be outdoors

County Milw...great brats.

Wrigley...a step back in time.

Busch St Lou...great fans

Atl...before Turner Field and Braves were worst team easily

KC.. before they renamed it Kaufman...most games by far. '72 All Star game first game there

Yankee stadium

ProPlayer(Sc vs Iowa)

StPete dome,,Drays

Houston Astrodome

Colo Rockies

SD Murph

Dodger Park

Glaring miss is Fenway

Pro Football

Kc Chiefs current stadium

Kc Chiefs downtown(First pro game ever...Turkey day. Momma and Papas sang Anthem)

Basketball

Forum.. Lakers

Clippers...When they played next to Coliesum

KC Kings Arena...Otis Birdsong and Reggie Theus

ATlanta...Old stadium downtown Lou Hudson...Same place I saw The Eagles when" Hotel Cal" was huge.

Missing...TD Waterhouse...8 years here and havent seen the Majic.

Hockey

Forum. Kings

Lots of misses here.

Tracks.

Del mar...heaven

Santa Anita.

Santa Fe Downs NM

Bossier city LA...Louisiana Downs...Superderby Alysheba

Quad City Downs...Where the true legend of Fish gambling exploits started.

Belmont...Triple crown attempt for Alysheba. (Despite a loss to rival Bet Twice in the Belmont Stakes, Alysheba rebounded to win the Super Derby and finish second to '86 Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand in the Breeders' Cup Classic that fall.)

Missing lots here...notably upstate NY Saratoga

panther · Feb 3, 2005

23 pro

college more than 70

panther

wantitall4moi · Feb 3, 2005

From east to west sports

Boston Garden
Fleet Center
Fenway
Foxboro (duh) edit*
Yankee Stadium
Orchard Park
Meadowlands
Continental Arena
Big Sombrero (when it was the big sombrero)
Joe Robbie (when it was joe Robbie)
All Tel
Gund
Old Cle Municipal
jacobs Field
Richfield Coliseum
Superdome
Wrigley
Whatever Stadium the Rockets play in or played in in 1996 (long story)
SunDevil Stadium
Arrowhead Pond
Staples
The Q
Candlestick
Driven by Oakland coliseum a hundred times, have yet to see a game there.
Dodgers Stadium
Wherever the Angels play now
The Rose Garden
Been in the Forum too, but not for any sporting event.

Tracks
Lewiston raceway
Bangor raceway
Scarborough Downs
Every fair track in New England just about
Seabrook (dogs)
Lincoln Rhode Island (dogs)
Rockingham
Suffolk Downs
Foxboro
Plainridge
Plainfield (dogs)
Revere Beach/wonderland (dogs)
Raynem/Taunton (dogs)
Yonkers
Meadowlands
Belmont
Saratoga
(no aqueduct)
Freehold
Garden state park
Churchill downs
Keeneland
Philly Park
ThistleDowns
Northfield
Palm beach (dogs)
Jax (dogs)
Orange Park (dogs)
Derby Lane (dogs)
Naple (dogs)
Gulfstream
Hialeah
Calder
Pompano
Santa Anita
Hollywood
Del MAr
Golden Gate
Fairplex
Los Alamitos
Vallejo
Sonoma
Santa Rosa
Pleasonton

Not all that many college places. Maybe 25 or so.

Journeyman · Feb 3, 2005

WOW the first few lists are quite impressive!

I have been to quite a few but nothing like this!

Use to go to about half the Orioles games when baseball was a fair sport many years ago...And also use to go to all the Maryland hoops games...

memorial
yankee
veterans
three rivers
camden yards
tiger stadium
skydome
fulton county
jacobs field
cynergy/riverfront
RFK
JKF
Ravens Stadium
Shea
Meadowlands

Cole Field house
omni
balto civic center
cap center
DC Armory (lol)
nassau coliseum
madison square
comcast center
spectrum
brendon byrne arena

Thats all i can think of...

I really must see Fenway and Wrigley someday :suomi:

wilheim · Feb 3, 2005

No way I can remember all of them but I remember the first college football super star I ever saw play live. I was lucky enough as a kid to be friendly with a Boston College allumni he was kind of a Big Brother and made sure kids got to see BC games for years, great guy RIP. anyway he took me as a kid (maybe 12) to see BC play Syracuse at BC (Brookline Mass) Ernie Davis played that day for Syracuse and scored 3 TDs as the Orangeman and their old coach Ben Schwatzwalder crushed the Eagles something like 42 to 14. Davis tragically died of leukemia before he could play in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns who traded for his rights and drafted him #1 the following spring. He was supposed to team up with Jim Brown in a super backfield.

wil.

RobFunk · Feb 3, 2005

wantitall you killed it way to be the guy said 'joe robbie, when it was joe robbie' layed it d

cadillacman · Feb 3, 2005

I can't name them all, so'll give you my best from each sport

football

the "linc"

baseball

Camden Yards

Horse racing

Saratoga

wantitall4moi · Feb 3, 2005

Yeah Rob, I can't remember half the places these days and what they are named. I live 25 minutes from Anahiem (with no traffic) and I still don't know what that place is going to be called.

Joe Robbie was scarey man. WhenI was living in Jax in 96 or 97 we drove down when the Pats came to town. We took a wrong turn coming out, got into that bad section. I pulled my truck right across the 3 lanes and over the median. I didn't even dare to pull in anywhere to turn around. And I am not one that is intimidated by urban blight

, but it was scarey.

FairWarning · Feb 3, 2005

Wrigley Field
Comiskey Park
Tiger Stadium
Comerica Park - Detroit
Busch Stadium
Jack Murphy Stadium
Dodger Stadium
Anaheim Stadium
White Sox new park

Soldier Field

United Center
Chicago Stadium
Palace of Auburn Hills

Colleges:

Notre Dame, football + basketball
Michigan football + basketball
Michigan St football + basketball
Western Mich football + basketball
Central Mich foorball + basketball

bucsfan67 · Feb 3, 2005

i thought i had been to quite a few, til i saw these lists, now i am ashamed...

have been to

Busch Stadium
The RCA dome
Conseco Fieldhouse
Atlanta Fulton County Stadium
Roberts Stadium
Tampa Stadium (the sombrero, not the new one)
The Sundome
The Stadium the Magic played in the late 80's (cant remmber name)

Tracks

DerbyLane
Tampa Greyhound
Tampa Bay Downs
Ellis Park
Turfway Park
Louisville Downs
The Red Mile
Keeneland
Churchhill Downs
Gulfstream

sherman · Feb 4, 2005

wow, some very impressive lists....

i'm sure all the ones i have been to are covered somewhere above this post...

Horseshoe · Feb 4, 2005

Wil, do you know Earle The Pearl?

Journeyman · Feb 4, 2005

Horseshoe, that is one massive Avatar! WOW

You mean Earl Monroe right?

wilheim · Feb 4, 2005

Shoe if you are talking about the real Earl Monroe no I don't know him personally of course I have seen him play a few times back when. I can't think of anyone nicknamed earle the pearl either.

wil.

Horseshoe · Feb 4, 2005

Wil, no, I was referring to an old-school seaboard sharpie long based in mecca.

J-man, with Schmidt, Carlton, Rose, Boone, Trillo, Bowa, Maddox, Matthews, McGraw, Ruthven, and Bake McBride's fro in the picture it needs to be larger than life..and may have an young Ryno and Moreland in there?

Journeyman · Feb 4, 2005

That late 70's early 80's team was loaded... Luzinski was there too if I am not mistken...

Horseshoe · Feb 4, 2005

Luzinski was on the late '70s team that lost three times in the NL Playoffs(mostly to LA), he may have still been on the roster but didn't play much if still with them, and yes Pete Rose was signed as a free agent the year they finally got over the hump..played 1st..loved to spike/dribble the ball on that brutal Vets turf after the 3rd out to close the frame on way to dugout.

Journeyman · Feb 4, 2005

Yes HS I looked it up...years running together for me,lol...Also Lonnie Smith, and Moreland were there...it was Luzinski's last year there..he did play at Chicago and was decent for ther Sox in 1983...

Even Tim McCarver :shocked: , McCarver i believe was one of those players whose career covered 4 decades 59-80

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1980&t=PHI

Horseshoe · Feb 4, 2005

You're right J-man, Lonnie Smith was coming on, as Sarge Matthews was part of the '83 team that won game 1, then was run out by Baltimore.

Phils-Stros playoff series in '80 may be the best of all-time?

Poor Astros have lost three 12-round epics, to Phils, Mets, and Cards, really is a shame..as they had teams capable of winning it those years.

jjgold · Feb 4, 2005

tracks

belmont
aqueduct
saratoga
yonkers
roosevelet
monticello
meadowlands
freehold
monmouth
atlantic city
garden state
brandwyine
keystone
liberty bell
phila
deleware
tampa
sarasota grehound
hollywood park
Los Alamitos
Santa Anita
shoreline