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Old Posted Jun 2, 2014, 5:38 AM
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That stadium is so meh.

Target Field may be the most beautiful new ballpark in the last 80 years, and Nationals Park and Great American are also worthy contenders for ballparks with contemporary design.

It's interesting that many MLB teams feel compelled to embrace some form of historic legacy through traditional design, even when they have no historic legacy of their own (e.g. the Mets at CitiField, the Brewers, etc) while football teams are often eager to pursue dynamic new ideas, like Arizona's sliding turf or Atlanta's incredible "iris" roof.
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How about the minor leagues?

Today news broke that the New Britain Rockcats are considering a move from their suburban New Britain location to downtown Hartford. Of course, the city will pay for the stadium with bonds, not the team.

New Britain Rock Cats planning move to Hartford

By Pat Eaton-Robb, The Associated Press
POSTED: 06/04/14, 3:13 PM EDT

HARTFORD >> New Britain’s minor league baseball team announced plans Wednesday to move about 15 miles north to Hartford, where the capital city plans to build it a $60 million stadium.

Josh Solomon, the managing partner of the Double-A Rock Cats, and Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra held a news conference Wednesday on the steps of Hartford City Hall to provide details of the agreement, which calls for an almost 10,000-seat stadium to be ready in time for opening day in 2016.

The stadium is planned for Main Street, just north of Hartford’s downtown, near the intersection of Interstates 91 and 84. The team has agreed to sign a 25-year lease, officials said.



http://www.nhregister.com/sports/201...ve-to-hartford
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Old Posted Jun 6, 2014, 1:51 PM
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How about the minor leagues?
there are a lot of great minor league parks around the nation, but they are in a different "league" (get it?) compared to MLB ballparks. even the largest of minor league ballparks is still less then half the capacity of an average MLB ballpark.

i started this thread 5 years ago to talk about how i believed that new MLB ballpark construction was finally coming to an end after one of the most explosive periods of new stadium construction ever seen in MLB over the past 2 decades. i really thought that with the exception of possible new homes for the A's and Rays (and whatever expansion teams may come along), that MLB was done with new stadium construction for a good long while, and then the braves come out with the news that they're leaving turner field after only 20 years and building a new stadium for themselves out in the burbs of atlanta. that move truly came out of "left field" (get it?) for me.
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