Camden Yards pretty much empty tonight in game between Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles.

[SamAdams76]

Not a big baseball fan. This isn't newsworthy. I'm not pimping a blog. I know not many people care. I also know there are more important things to talk about. Hurricanes. North Korea. Global Cooling. Healthcare. Tax Reform. Pizza...definitely pizza. Trump's Tweets - and he put out a mother lode of them today.

But I'm sitting here in a Long Island bar, Millers Ale House in Lake Grove, and they have this game on with Red Sox ace Chris Sale pitching and the stands are pretty much empty. Just thought I'd point that out.

Not a big baseball fan but I never remember a game that had this few people in the stands.

Those Cleveland Indians...they have now won 25 of the last 26 games. How amazing is that? Maybe they draw a bigger crowd.

[Dilbert San Diego]

It’s hard to believe looking back as adults, on how exciting some things were, such as going to the ballgame with Dad.

I know how silly this may sound. But when I was young, we had gone only to day games. But then one day, Dad announced we were all going to go to a night game. I remember how exciting I thought that was.

I know as adults, that sounds crazy, but as a boy, I was super excited to go to a night game.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Baltimore has a beautiful ballpark in the worst part of town.
I wouldn’t go either.

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That begs the question as to why, many cities have built stadiums in bad neighborhoods.

[ssaftler]

Bleacher seats were $1.25 and I could easily afford that with my paper route money.

Also remember those days in the bleachers as well. Can't remember what we paid to take the "T" from Quincy, but it wasn't much. We were all pretty bummed when the price went to $2.00 each!.

A few years back, I took my two kids and wife to the game and spent over $300 all told.

Took my niece and her two boys to a game at Fenway in 2013, when I was in town for a convention. Spent $300 for the tickets ALONE, and those were 3rd row of the bleachers, behind the Sox bullpen!

[BobL]

Camden Yards is safe...just don’t leave after the game.

[big'ol_freeper]

Yet Camden Yards was influenced by old ballparks, hence every park after Camden Yards was influenced by old ballparks.

[PJBankard]

Sorry there bub, but the fact of the matter is the design of Camden Yards more specifically the interior was used for almost every baseball park since 1992 (with exception to Marlins Park). The only difference was the park’s exterior design. Some used the same Jewel Box park design (retro-classic) as Camden Yards, such as Citizens Bank Park. Others used a more modern exterior (retro-modern) of grey steel such as Angel Stadium of Anaheim.

Marlin’s Park was built in 2012 and is the only park built after 1992 that didn’t use the Camden Yards design.