Fields Of Dreams: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida


Consistently rated at 1 of the ugliest stadiums inwards baseball, the sometime Thunder Dome was built inwards 1990...just 2 years earlier the structure of Camden Yards inwards Baltimore would revolutionize Major League Baseball stadiums. Tropicana Field is domicile to the Tampa Bay Rays. It's pretty far from Tampa, though, keeping the crowds that mightiness commonly come upwards pretty far away.

Former called the Devil Rays, the teamed dropped the "Devil" inwards their cite inwards 2008. The Rays require hold a history of mediocre teams as well as beingness an 'also ran' but had about success when managing director Joe Maddon came over from the Angels inwards 2006, leading to an American League pennant inwards 2008.

 Let's require hold a await at the stats:

Opened: 1990
Surface: Shaw Sports Turf
Construction cost: $130 million
Capacity: 42,735 (artificially express to 31.042 past times roofing transcend deck seats amongst tart)
Field dimensions: Left plain - 315 ft; Left oculus - 370 ft; oculus plain - 404 ft; correct oculus - 370 ft; correct plain - 322 ft.
Home team: Tampa Bay Rays (American League - MLB) 1998 - present
Tampa Bay Storm (AFL) 1990-1996
Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL) 1993-1996
Events attended: 1 game


Tropicana Field is the terminal remaining MLB stadium amongst a fixed roof. It is 1 of 2 stadiums inwards the league to require hold an artificial surface, Toronto is the other. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 quirk inwards the dry reason rules agency that if a ball hits 1 of the inner 2 rings of catwalk inwards the ceiling, the ball is inwards play. If it hits as well as outer ring, it's a domicile run.


There is adept access all around the entire stadium. Wheechair seating is plentiful all around the seating bowl. Sight lines are fantabulous throughout the stadium.


Ticketing is easy, merely become to Raysbaseball.com to click 'Tickets' at the transcend of the page, require a game date, as well as click on on'accessible seating.'  We had no occupation getting seats for the wheelchair as well as 2 companions.  Dynamic pricing agency at that topographic point are no laid ticket prices but our seats past times start base of operations were around $40. 

Public transit is around non-existent to this park, but at that topographic point is enough of parking...some of it gratis if yous require hold 4 or to a greater extent than inwards the car...and is merely inside walking distance to downtown.

There are a large release of lodging options inwards the surface area from retro budget roadside motels to the Four Seasons. We stayed at the Hyatt Place, downtown, which was a rattling nice, mid-priced, choice that included breakfast.

Food choices are quite extensive There is a large nutrient hall, amongst a multifariousness of options, inwards the concourse behind start as well as tertiary base. The black nosotros were there, the hot dogs were rattling adept as well as solely $2. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 flake on the small-scale side but the toll was correct at  was the refillable sodas as well as popcorn at $5 as well as $7.50 respectively.

The concessions concourse is unopen but monitors at the nutrient stands let yous to follow the game. Lines were curt as well as quick.


While this stadium is a flake old as well as has a run-down reputation, nosotros enjoyed ourselves quite a flake here. What they lack inwards up-to-date amenities they to a greater extent than than brand upwards for amongst immersive game activeness as well as groovy service to the fans.

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