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Welcome to my Don Kelley web site. From the nav bar above you can see my tour of Major League Ballparks and choose which ones to check out. In the summer of 2014 I finished a big item on my bucket list: seeing a game at every Major League Ballpark. And I did it. I started working on this website in 2015 but there were too many interruptions. In 2017 I had to “top it off” because the Atlanta Braves replaced Turner Field, only 20 years old and still looking good, with SunTrust Park in the northern suburbs. 

I was scheduled to “top it off” again in 2020 as the Texas Rangers have replaced what was originally called the Ballpark at Arlington – opened in 1994 – with domed Globe Life Field. But the 2020 MLB season had no fans and 2021 still wasn’t safe for travel. I finally got there in 2023.  Go ahead and scroll through and see if you like it, and agree or disagree with any comments.

My tour includes seeing games at all 30 current ballparks, plus 13 more than are either gone (old Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, Griffith Stadium, Memorial StadiumArlington Stadium, Veterans Stadium, Metrodome) or are no longer used for baseball (Olympic Stadium, RFK Stadium, QualComm Stadium, Sun Life Financial Stadium, Turner Field, Ballpark at Arlington) I’ve also been to three more – just a visit, no game – that are gone (Old Busch Stadium, The Kingdome, Tiger Stadium) and the sites of two others (Huntington Ave Baseball Grounds, Braves Field).  

Big debate here: several of the new ballparks have changed names since I first went there. In San Francisco, Pacific Bell Park became Southern Bell Park then AT&T Park (the nickname was the phone booth) and finally Oracle Park. US Cellular Field became Guaranteed Rate Park. Jacobs Field became Progressive Field. Safeco Field became T-Mobile Field. The Ballpark at Arlington became Ameriquest Field, then Globe Life Park. Skydome became Rogers Centre. Pro Player Park became Dolphins Stadium, then Sun Life Financial Fieldthen Landshark Stadium, then Hard Rock Stadium. Then the Marlins moved to a new ballpark, Marlins Park.. SunTrust Field became Truist Field. I’m flummoxed as to whether I should use the name the park had when I first went there, or the name when I last visited. On each page I used the team logo in use when I first visited.

I hit two ballparks in the 50s, two more in the 80s, six in the 90s, and really cranked it up in the 00s, 20–teens and 2020s. So take a look, and if you’ve been to any of them, please leave a comment at the bottom of the page.

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