Where Are The Best Ballparks in Baseball?

SI's Stephanie Apstein discusses the most famous stadiums in baseball and reveals her list of the top ballparks in MLB.

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00:00Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, Wrigley Field.

00:04There are a lot of famous ballparks in baseball,

00:07but which one is the best?

00:08Our MLB staff ranked them, including Stephanie Afstein.

00:11Stephanie, you had Camden Yards, number one?

00:14Yeah, to me, that's, as I said,

00:16I think that's the platonic ideal of a ballpark.

00:18It's got all of the,

00:20it looks kind of like a Fenway and a Wrigley,

00:22one of these old jewel box stadiums,

00:24but it also has seats designed to fit a 21st century human.

00:29It doesn't have the bad sight lines.

00:30I think it's sort of the best way

00:32you could update a ballpark.

00:34Yeah, I mean, I lived in Maryland,

00:35went to school at UMD.

00:37I agree, it's a great ballpark.

00:38Problem is it doesn't have a baseball team, really.

00:41Well, that's true,

00:42but they do have great crab cakes at concessions,

00:44so you can go up with a pretty nice night there.

00:47Do you like the ballparks that were designed in the past,

00:49the Wrigley Fields, and not the newer ones,

00:52like, say, the renewed Yankee Stadium?

00:56Yeah, I like the history.

00:57I like the idea that Ted Williams played there.

01:00I think Yankee Stadium could have been,

01:03could have sort of worked into that,

01:06but it feels a little bit soulless,

01:07and I think a lot of the new ballparks feel that way.

01:10Yeah, the old ones have that character in them.

01:13Stephanie, appreciate your time, as always.

01:16Thanks for having me.