BCSWguru said:

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anyone have experience with public transit in San Francisco? In particular, riding or getting from the closest train station to Oracle park? Is it walkable?

Eight to go after this.

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My parents live in Alameda county, across the Bay, so all my experience getting to Oracle (formerly AT&T, formerly Pac Bell) is coming from there.

From either the Montgomery St or Embarcadero BART stations it's walkable. A tad under a mile. I've done it for a day game, not sure how I'd feel about the walk back after a night game. (I got on at the Dublin/Pleasanton station.)

If you stay in the east bay, you can also take the ferry from either Jack London Square in Oakland or Alameda, unless you're going to a mid-week day game. That drops you off right outside the park, near right field, and it's a beautiful ride on a sunny day. The ferry run starts at Jack London, then stops in Alameda, so you can get more choice of seats if you board there. Plus Alameda is an island and getting there is more involved than getting to Oakland.

OTOH, Alameda is also home to the museum ship USS Hornet, which made the pick up of the Apollo 11 astronauts, if you want to do some other touristy things.

ETA: There's also Muni light rail that runs right by Oracle, but I've never used that.

very helpful info. i will be taking the train from the airport. i just recently learned of the light rail option, i've been on the bart train when i went to Oakland so I got that part down. This would be a day game on a Sunday. Departing flight at 7, game over by about 4. so I think walking would be fine.

thank you!

tjack16 said:

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No we are doing KC in June and bouncing over to Omaha for a day of the college World Series.

Then DC for the 4th of July and catching Astros vs nationals

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Same! We're going to the game on the 6th in DC. Flying into town on the 3rd.

My brother and I are heading to Detroit and Milwaukee in a few weeks. Outside of hoping for good weather in Detroit, is there anything special I should do at either park? I would like to get a picture with the Uecker statue in Milwaukee.

If we are in Chicago with a car, is there public parking at the stadiums?

Or would we be better off leaving the car at the hotel and taking a train or cab?

I've never been to Rate Field (I think that's the name of the White Sox stadium now) but for Wrigley, there is parking at people's houses near the stadium. I think we paid $25 to park in someone's yard. You could probably do Uber too. We were too far out to take the train when we went so, I'm not sure.

I got screwed on someone's garage space by Wrigley, the alley was blocked by a delivery truck. Luckily Spot Hero refunded me and I was able to find a lot a few blocks away.

SunrayAg said:

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If we are in Chicago with a car, is there public parking at the stadiums?

Or would we be better off leaving the car at the hotel and taking a train or cab?

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If you are easily able to take a train/The L, I would just do that. The L lets off outside right field, easy-peasy.

Just got back from Chicago and got games in for both teams. Drove through some terrible weather on the way out, but it was beautiful during the games.

I bought a pass online for one of the Toyota sponsored lots near wrigley, and it worked great. It was actually cheaper than parking at our hotel…

Now my son and I are at 21.

C1NRB said:

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I'm going to Fenway in August to see the Rangers.

Edit:
Defunct-
Arlington Stadium
The Ballpark in Arlington
Astrodome
Kingdom

On the cusp of Defunct-
O.co (A's)

Been to-
Globe Life
Minute Maid
Wrigley
Coors
Kaufman
Citi Field
Citizens Bank

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Well... I didn't make Fenway.
Now I'm going, theoretically, to Chavez Ravine to see the Dodgers vs Rockies in May.

I'm a quality over quantity guy lol

Chavez Ravine- 100's of games since 1979
Angel Stadium (old Big A) once to see Nolan Ryan pitch when he was an Angel
Wrigley- Once to see the Dodgers play in 2017
Fenway- Once to see the Dodgers play in 2025

Hitting up Philly for a day during my June New York trip and seeing the Phillies face the padres.

Any recommendations?

Went to Camden Yards over the weekend. Great ballpark, would recommend.

the train takes you right to the stadium if youre staying downtown. easy and quick. been there a few times and its a nice stadium. can watch the game as you make almost the entire concourse.

I'm taking the train from Manhattan to Philly and have about 6 hours to kill pregame.

Was going to see some of the historical sites if possible (independence hall and such)

I'll finally jump on here since we're about to do another long baseball road trip this summer

Defunct:

Kingdome (saw Griffey)
Old Arlington
TBiA

Current:

Diamondbacks
Padres
Dodgers
Giants
Rockies
Astros
Rangers
Royals
Reds
Braves
Cardinals


This summer we're going to hit the Cubs on the 4th of July, and then an East coast trip hitting Philly, Mets, and Boston. We're also going to spend 2 days in Cooperstown. If anyone has any tips I'm all ears, especially for the Cubs and Sox.

We just moved to Indiana, so we'll knock out the Tigers, White Sox, Brewers, Pirates and Indians at some point.

Anyone seen a game in Miami? We are hitting a random game after a cruise in August, not sure if there is a unique food to try or anything to see in the stadium.

Miami is maybe the worst baseball atmosphere in baseball on a normal day. They had the entire upper level blocked off when I went. Very underwhelming IMO. Didnt try any of the food as we had cubanos before the game.

They do have a pretty bad ass bobblehead exhibit out in left/centerfield.

Citizens bank was cool. Game just ended.

Really liked the stadium and atmosphere

Definitely something I'm planning to do in retirement is a few long road trips hitting a bunch of parks.

There is a site for that which allows you to put in the home teams you're wanting to see, how many days in between games and the date range you're looking at. It then maps it out for you based on the schedules of the team and your parameters and provides links to buy tickets. Baseball Roadtrip Planner

As for my list:

Arlington Stadium
Ballpark in Arlington
Globe Life
Astrodome
Minute Maid
Nats Park
Fenway (tour only)
Yankee Stadium in it's last year (2008)

Fenway was awesome, but definitely do your HW on best places to sit as some locations have bad viewing angles.

I'll be at Fenway next week....my third game (+ two concerts) but it'll be my son's first time and we're both pretty pumped

What section are you going to be in? Next time I go I want to try the Monster seats. We did one game right by Pesky's pole and another behind home plate up about 20 rows.

We're in B110....just past first base but below the grandstand so no obstructions to worry about. I was surprised to still be able to get the tickets thru the Red Sox for face about 3 weeks ago (especially since it is the opening weekend of the World Cup - I figured a lot of people would be double dipping, like we are)

My first game I sat in the CF bleachers and my second game I sat between home and 1st up a bit higher but between two columns so no obstructions.

I've watched batting practice from the Green Monster - it was cool, but it is really high so I imagine for a game you could feel really far from the action?

I got my tickets for face also, and they were priced less than what Brewers tickets are priced at for similar sections. Not sure if this is always the case, or only because the Sox are just mediocre this year. I was hoping to catch Roman Anthony but he was out with an injury. I did get to see Chris Sale pitch for the Braves though, so perhaps adding another to my list of hall of famers watched in person. Acuna hit a grand slam over the monster, he's also on a HoF track, but I've seen him play probably a dozen times now from my time living in Augusta, GA.

HOF starting pitchers are SOOOO hard to check the box on - congrats on catching Sale!

Unfortunately, the Sox are hosting the Rangers when I'm there so there is really low potential for seeing someone I haven't seen from the away team.

I'm hoping to catch a KC at Colorado game later this summer and I can check off Witt and Salvy from my potentials list