It's Opening Day!

The day is finally here, Opening Day 2008. Yea you had the two games last week in Japan and last nights game between the Braves and Nationals, but today is the true Opening Day. It is defiantly one of the best opening day's in any sport. Take the day off from work or whatever you may be doing and enjoy some baseball on tv, radio or on the internet.

Updates...

Nationals Park has been updated with pictures from this past weekend. Awesome ballpark.

Other small updates:
Turner Field
Wrigley Field
Miller Park
Dodger Stadium
Shea Stadium
Chase Field
Camden Yards
Yankee Stadium
Kauffman Stadium

It's Almost that Time...

Opening Day is almost here. Well, technically the season has already began with the Red Sox/A's games in Japan earlier this week. However, the traditional opening day is just a few days away on Monday. Most people would agree that Cincinnati should be where the first game is played each season because of their tradition. The Reds open at home on Monday against the Diamondbacks. The city piratically shuts down every Opening Day as kids and adults skip school and work for the day. Opening Day is an unofficial holiday in the City of Cincinnati kicking off with the Findlay Market Opening Day parade through the streets of the city. Events are abound and excitement can be seen all around Cincinnati for the Reds. Tickets to this game are the most sought after each year.

There are several exciting events this weekend. The Boston Red Sox take on the Los Angeles Dodgers at the LA Coliseum on Saturday. The Dodgers are expecting a crowd of nearly 115,000 fans for this game. See the articles on our homepage about the game. This will be a great game to see since many were not born when the Dodgers last played at the Coliseum over 40 years ago.

The Washington Nationals open their new ballpark this weekend as they play the Baltimore Orioles in an exhibition game on Saturday. This will be a test run for the ballpark as the Nationals open the season with the first ever game at Nationals Park on Sunday night against the Atlanta Braves. Check out the ballpark on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball at 8:00pm EST.

Look for new pictures of the LA Coliseum and Nationals Park on ballparksofbaseball.com soon!

Minor League Update

We have updated our minor league ballparks section to reflect changes for the 2008 season. Not much movement of teams for this season. A couple of new ballparks open in Double A and Single A this season.

http://ballparksofbaseball.com/minorleagueballparks.htm

VT Hokies Article

Ballparks of Baseball was at the New York Yankees/Virginia Tech Hokies game on Tuesday. It was an awesome experience for everyone there. What a great gesture for the Yankees to take time from their spring training schedule to travel to Blacksburg, VA to play in this game, and for all the great stars to come along. You can read about the entire day at:

http://ballparksofbaseball.com/news/vtnyygame.htm

A Trip North for the Yankees

The New York Yankees take a break from Florida and Spring Training today when they travel to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA to play the Hokies at 3pm EST. After the April 16th tragedy at VT, the Yankees donated $1 million to the school and agreed to play in a game against the Hokies baseball team. The game will be played at English Field. You can watch the game live and for FREE at mlb.tv.

For more information: www.hokiesports.com

St. Patty's Day Update

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

New computer renderings of Yankee Stadium have been added to the Yankee Stadium page. They are probably the best renderings that have came out so far. See them here:

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/future/YankeeStadiumII.htm

New and done...

Our ballpark merchandise section is finally new and updated with all the ballpark related merchadise that there can be found. You can now browse our selection by category or by your favorite team/ballpark. Check it out here:

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/ballparkmerchandise.htm


Also added two new pictures to the Nationals Page page:

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/nl/NationalsPark.htm

Ballpark Updates

Here are some of the ballparks that have been updated with some new research and information you may find interesting:

Ebbets Field
PNC Park
AT&T Park
Sportsmans Park

We are continuing to work on our ballpark merchandise section to allow for fans to sort our merchandise by their favorite team and ballpark. Look for this to be complete later in the week.

Store Updates...

It has been a while since we updated the merchandise in our ballpark store:

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/ballparkmerchandise.htm

We have added a ton of new items for you to choose from including books, new posters, stadium snow globes, blankets and more. If there is something that you cannot find, let us know and we will find it for you.

Nats Update

More updates for the Nationals Ballpark page. Couple more pics from the webcams showing the stadium as of today. It's looking good. We also updated the directions/parking section for the Nationals.

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/directionsparking/nationals.htm

Fans are going to have a hard time actually parking at the new stadium. Surprise Surprise no parking at the ballpark except for season ticket holders. However, fans will be able to park at RFK Stadium for free, yes FREE, thats shocking, and catch a FREE shuttle to the Nationals ballpark. Otherwise fans can take the Metro to the game.

Future's updates...

Updates for 3/4 for several future ballparks:

Yankee Stadium II
Citi Field
Twins Ballpark

And the tarps come off...

The tarps that serve as a type of insulation over the playing field at the Nationals Park have been removed today. Check out the webcams from Clark Construction to see what the ballpark looks like:

http://clarkconstruction.oxblue.com/clarkhuntsmoot/

New Wallpaper

It's a new month, so new desktop wallpaper for your computer:

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/wallpaper.htm

A New, But Old Name...

With all the talk that the naming rights to Wrigley Field may be sold, the San Francisco 49ers (NFL) announced that their stadium will be known as Candlestick Park again after their naming rights agreement with Monster Inc ended. It is good to hear an old stadium name back in the sporting world. The name will remain Candlestick Park for the foreseen future. The 49ers probably would have found another corporation to have sold the naming rights to, but a city ballot measure restricted the team from pursuing a new name for the stadium. The City of Chicago should try to do something like this to prevent Wrigley Field from being renamed.

You can read more about the naming rights announcement of Candlestick Park here:

http://origin.mercurynews.com/49ersheadlines/ci_8408920

Another good article that discusses naming rights of stadiums from all sports can be found here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/02/SPK4VBCAH.DTL