Demolished Ballparks (old version)

[fetchy15]

olympic stadium is a toilet

can't wait until they demolish it

[sluggo1776]

Poor Robin Ventura, he ain't NEVER gonna live his little mound visit down!

[michael11895]

I miss old yankee stadium :'( the house that ruth Built 1923-2008

[capalbo3]

well done

[Navdan87]

Good riddance "cookie cutter" stadiums(Riverfront, Three Rivers, Busch)!!

[TheOrngerino]

I miss tigers stadium :'(

[flyerspa67]

Awesome Memories....

[MissKatetastic]

wow i really miss Comiskey Park, nice video thanks!

[Jeffster76]

Thanks for this great video. These are the ballparks of my childhood, and it makes me sad that they have been torn down. It's probably only a matter of time before the first ballpark I ever saw an MLB game in will be torn down too, Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

[cougarsrule45]

@Jeffster76

Aren't the 49ers getting a new stadium? If they do I'd say that's when Candlestick will go down.

[HardRock2Day]

@cougarsrule45 good. Candle Shit park as I call it.

[has2cats]

Wow ... thanks for the memories. This was great. The 70s and 80s ... when I used to watch baseball. What the heck happened...

[andrew41015]

in a strange way it's sad

[videojunkyish]

great ballparks sad that there gone however thank god they got rid of those crummy circle ball parks that looked the same

[imakeumadLOL]

The unfortunate reason these historic stadiums are torn down is because of economics. Sure they can be remodeled into state of the art facilities, but its much easier to make a new one and turn the location of the old one into a parking lot. I can see why people question it. Personally it doesn't bother me, but sometimes I wonder how no memorial is made for where these stadiums once stood, no matter what teams and players played in them. Markings on a parking lot doesn't cut it.

[meritmthl]

no memorial stadium in baltimore...

[sprintreo]

yankee stadium should have been kept as a national baseball museum.

[germxv]

what about exhibition stadium? what about the met?

[Stags80]

*crappy not crappier. The mona lisa isn't crappy. Srry.

[Stags80]

Can someone explain to me why we tear down history? It's like tearing apart the Mona Lisa to hang up a crappier unorigional painting.

[Fanik8]

you would have to think that RFK Stadium is next

[cougar331]

this kills me.. I cant believe old tiger stadium is gone.. it just hurts to see it go....

[DXMANIAC82]

rip tiger stadium... should of kept it as a mueseum.

[huskydliner609]

this makes me hate the new breed of ballparks even more. All the corporate names, baseball owners today have no respect for the past.

[TheUltimatePhillyFan]

nice to see that you included veterans stadium... i had some good times going to that ballpark

[JakeT7]

What about Baltimore's Memorial Stadium home of the Colts, Orioles, and Ravens? How come its not here? :(

[ilovebrewers2]

Man I miss County Stadium, great video.

[bakerandbaker1]

What's the difference between vids?

[sunflower26100]

not even exhibition stadium. boy did canada get snubbed lol jk

[Creepingdeathx81]

3:14 omg i forgot about that fight ! i remember nolan kicking some ass but i dont remember what year that was or what the fight was about any rangers fans remember?

[bigbadbruins1]

I loved the old ball parks.Too bad we couldn't of just kept them as a shrine.

[MegaJoker151]

what about polo grounds

[KinkESizemore]

7:26

The Curse of Jim Leyritz was born. I'm guessing ever since he's been sentenced to jail time, the Braves have been playing much much better. Justice :D

[Coastergeekperson04]

Don't forget the Coliseum. What's that? They haven't demolished it yet? Well, that's a shame.

[nascarsignore]

tacoma dome was soo beautiful

[romancitoG]

very nicely done.

yeah it is a sad thing to see your park go.

this video does it for me.

cool.

[ChevyManSS350]

Good ol Tiger Stadium. Boy do I miss that place!!!!

RIP Erine Harwell

[TheMadStork83]

Ah where is Memorial Stadium in Baltimore? If I missed it I appologize but it was a fun atomosphere to watch a ballgame. Especially in section 32 with "Wild" Bill Hagy.

[frenchfrey65]

continued, McAffee coliseum and the Metrodome go down, well and the other 2 cal stadiums... but the bottom line was this, the concrete monsters HAD to go, they were poorly constructed, they looked horrid as they aged, and when you look at them during demolition, they look like skeletons unlike todays stadiums... So unappealing... Thank goodness for the beauty of retro modern ballparks and flashy football stadiums (in a nice way of saying...)

[Fanik8]

@frenchfrey65 Oakland Coliseum looked pretty before football returned to Oakland.

[frenchfrey65]

@Fanik8 then Mount Al came in XD

[frenchfrey65]

ftr, i do miss some of these ballparks, but lets be frank here, they were meant to be for the most part (except for a couple!) multi-sport, 2 have to sports one stadium, like an arena, but they had horrible flaws, the astroturf, the horrid views, completely enclosed so you can't see anything BUT stadium, and on tv during early baseball season it was like looking at a cavern when the attendance was low... Lets face it Concrete Donuts have to go, and it's only a matter of time before

[montereypopfestiva67]

Best picture is at 3:15. Robin Ventura charged the mound after an inside pitch and Nolan Ryan got him in a headlock and ragdolled him. The moral of this story is DON'T FUCK WITH NOLAN RYAN

[montereypopfestiva67]

@montereypopfestiva67

I mean at 3:10

[MarshButcher]

Tiger Stadium,comiskey Park....wonderful ballparks that had character. Try as they may,they will never be able to build them like that again. Thanks for a great video!

[ChevyRoll48]

ya but theres a new cosmikey park and baseball seemed to change as soon as the first game started at Safeco field

[Rockthered8]

Great music and pictures.

[josaphiner]

I was fortunate to be at the closing of Arlington, saw George Brett's final at bat, a future prez and Rush Limbaugh, the closing of Busch, Tiger stadium where I saw Virgil Trucks crying under the stands after the game, and Comiskey park, watching Pudge Fisk take one final lap, and old men crying in the center field bleachers.

[mucraigdaddy]

The last song is a nice touch.

[ChevyRoll48]

wat about Olympic statium 1977 - 2004

[prkbrooks10]

It's not demolished yet

[ChevyRoll48]

huh I did not know that

[ChevyRoll48]

@prkbrooks10 what about the LA coleseum home of the Dodgers from 1958 - 1961

[frenchfrey65]

@ChevyRoll48 that's still being used by the USC trojans NCAA football team, that stadium will never fall

[SuperMaxLer]

@prkbrooks10 I went there this summer and they were having an old timers baseball player game featuring the players from the Montreal Expos.

[Protains]

its always sad to see the old ballparks go

[ChevyRoll48]

thats definitly true most sad for the ones that carry the most history like fenway park cause the Red sox are soon getting a new statium

[EagleLC21]

awesome list but where is memorial stadium in baltimore?

RIP TIGER STADIUM: THE CORNER

[tony7777777777777700]

tigers stadium forever

[MrHartfordHockey]

just a matter of time till fenway is on there

[Joeandyou11897]

when you look at the picture taken from county stadium with miller park being built in the background, it reminds me of looking at citi field in the process of being built from my seats at shea stadium

[southparkfan2717]

There was no excuse for even touching Comiskey Park and Tiger Stadium. They should be museums right now, that are still occasionally for high school and college baseball, and rock concerts. Its bull shit that they just ripped Comiskey down with absolutely no effort to preserve any part of it.

[bhubbart]

I Agree Comiskey at the time the Oldest park in MLB

[southparkfan2717]

Right now aren't they going to rip down the rest of Tiger stadium?

[Joeandyou11897]

can you tell me what the first two songs playing were? i really like them

[prkbrooks10]

Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve; Clocks by Coldplay

[bowlersinger]

@prkbrooks10 ....then In My Life by The Beatles.

[autov45]

It is interesting to see some love for the cookie cutters. Truely.

[mburmy]

RIP County Stadium...the best "childhood memories ballpark" a kid could dream of! (tears come to my eye).

Even though I respect Miller Park as the state-of-the-art park the Brewers need to stay, it just doesn't have the same ol' charm that County Stadium did...

[TopFlightMarketing]

As a Twins fan, I know about losing a stadium when they moved from the old Met into the Metrodome. Now the team gets to go from the Baggie Dome to new Target Field.

Funny thing about all of those cookie cutter stadiums from the 70's? Once you were inside, it was hard to tell if you were in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, or Philadelphia.

On a sad note. I was sorry to see Tiger Stadium go and Old Comisky was a lot better than new Comisky. Sad, but true.

[ProfessorIgor]

@ 1:02.. Sept 9, 1992... hit #3000 for Robin Yount.. on my 23rd birthday !! I don't miss County Stadium, it was a old, worn out park. Miller Park is SOOOOO much better, but I do miss the memories of the place. I am thankful that the movie Major Lague was filmed there. I can see the old girl whenever I want to.

[bilskie1]

Love Citizens Bank Park...but The VET was my CHILDHOOD!!!

[TheProuddaddy2009]

your right frio109 thats true detroit needs to be distroyed and rebuilt shit as city who'd wanna live there.

[nymetsfan9121]

i live for the mets honestly i started crying when i saw the closing ceremony for shea stadium. and milwakie stadium i really liked to my favorite baseball movie was filmed there major league

[ComPavel]

Let's be honest, Shea might have been a dump, but it was our dump! Lots of great memories there! So far, only nightmares at Citi! (but that will change in 2010!)

[nymetsfan9121]

hell yeah shea was our dump and we loved to watch our team play there

[rpballa248]

the old ones are just as good as the new ones yankees stadium was in great shape now its a destruction site. now it looks like the stadium was aged 100 years

[usisguy]

It is all about the money not the history, America and the rest of world have sunk that low!

[palmerchristopher]

Did babe ruth play at tigers stadium, hopt that wasn't a stupid question.

[prkbrooks10]

Not stupid at all. Ruth retired in 1935 and Tiger Stadium opened in 1912 so he would have played there as a visitor for several years when he was on American League teams like Boston and New York.

[cj1982]

ruth played everywhere. wrigley, tiger stadium, comiskey, fenway, you name it.

[tlangelo]

@palmerchristopher BABE RUTH ALSO HIT HIS 700TH HOME RUN AT TIGER STADIUM IN 1934

[TUdaToken]

@palmerchristopher he sure did, that's where Ruth hit his 700th Home Run, he hit it onto the right field roof

[frio109]

I bought 2 Tiger Stadium Seats......I went down to what is left of Tiger Stadium in July. It looks a lot like Detroit. empty, abandoned and falling down.......

[votesDOcount]

great video. perfect beggining song too.! :) check out my yankee stadium demolition vid. :)

[dingdongditch1000]

I've been to Shea Stadium before!!!

[buckynance]

Great Tribute my friend.

I have been a stadium buff since the early 80's when I was just in 4th grade.

I used to draw diagrams with a template, that I still have to this day, in my free time at school.

I grew up in Arlington Stadium and I have some really awesome pics of it if you eve decide to redo this one, not that it needs it, if you decide to add Baltimore and Yankee Stadium.

[Hakers6]

Excellent video prkbrooks10. BTW what are the name of the songs on here.

[prkbrooks10]

Thank you! Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve), Clocks (Coldplay) and Places I Remember (Beattles)

[Hakers6]

Thanks.

[thunderstruck665]

This is an awesome montage! Great job! Of all of these ballparks, the only ones I would've liked to have seen remain are the old Comiskey Park and Tiger Stadium. They looked like really awesome places to see a ballgame and were both replaced by mediocre if not downright lousy, facilities. BTW, you forgot Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.

[prkbrooks10]

I know it, I can't believe I forgot about Baltimore. I was hoping no one would notice...:) Thanks for the kind words.

[assholedevastator]

very nice tribute

[billykkutter]

crazy was not the word.....the guy was a lunatic...absolutely fun to watch.....

[billykkutter]

was that Mark Fydrich at the beginning?

[prkbrooks10]

Yeah, I learned alot about him from MLB Network right after he died. I only knew of him as crazy on the mound.

[TristanErvin14]

I got sad.

[Arch91]

u shoulda included the old yankee stadium

although it hasnt been torn down yet...

other than that good vid

[prkbrooks10]

Other than the fact it's not demolished, I should of used it huh? Maybe I should have created fake pics of it demolished.