12-Jun-2017
This week’s theme, questions, hints and answers come from longtime reader
John Michael Pierobon of Fort Lauderdale.
MONDAY
Q. Which is the northernmost baseball park in the major leagues?
Hint: It is where Cal Ripken, Jr. hit his last home run in an All-Star game.
Hint: Adrian Beltre hit the first inside-the-park home run at this venue.
1250 First Avenue South, Seattle, Washington 98134-1216
FCR - Adrian Fung, Toronto
Incorrect answers: Rogers Center, Metrodome, Target Field
TUESDAY
Q. Which ballpark hosted the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game?
Hint: Ken Griffey, Jr. holds the distinction of having the first hit in this stadium's history.
Hint: It is within walking distance of the Ohio River.
100 Joe Nuxhall Way, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-4109
- 39.0875 Lat, 85.50667 Long
FCR - Ralph Fessler, Ellicott City, Maryland
Incorrect answers: PNC Park, Cinergy Field, Three Rivers Stadium
TUESDAY TWO-FER
Q. Where have Daryle Ward, Garret Jones, and Pedro Alvarez each hit the ball out of the park and its surrounding grounds?
Hint: This ballpark is near a famous bridge.
Hint: It is within walking distance of the Ohio River.
115 Federal Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212-5740
FCR - John Rudy, Cooperstown
Incorrect answers: Heinz Field, The Great American Ballpark, Three Rivers Stadium, Riverfront Stadium
WEDNESDAY
Q. Which is the southernmost baseball park in the major leagues?
Hint: This fishy park has an aquarium behind home plate on the first base side.
Hint: Carlos Beltran holds the distinction of having the first major league hit in this stadium's history.
501 Marlins Way, Miami, Florida 33125-1121
- Latitude: 25.783638°, Longitude: -80.221315°
FCR - Bob Bogart, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania
Incorrect answers: Tropicana Field, Pro Player Stadium
MIDWEEK BONUS
Q. Which is the northernmost baseball park in the major leagues with neither roof, canopy nor dome?
Hint: It hosted the 2014 All-Star game.
Hint: In 2010, ESPN The Magazine ranked it as the #1 baseball stadium experience in North America.
Hint: Marco Scutaro holds the distinction of having the first major league hit in this stadium's history.
1 Twins Way, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403-1418
- Latitude: 44.9793305°, Longitude: -93.2805701°
FCR - Richard Lerner, Silver Spring, Maryland
Incorrect answers: Safeco Field, AT&T Park, Fenway Park
THURSDAY
Q. Which ballpark hosted the Major League Baseball All-Star Game less than 16 months after it opened?
Hint: Rick Sutcliffe threw the first pitch in front of a crowd of nearly 45,000.
Hint: It is the first MLB park since Ebbets Field to have the outfield wall made up entirely of straight segments.
Hint: A specially-colored seat marks when and where Ernie Banks’s record was broken.
333 W. Camden Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201-2577
- On 15-Jul-1993 Cal Ripken hit his 278th career HR, for most by a SS. The seat where the HR ball landed commemorates the event and is located at Section 86, Row FF, Seat 10.
FCR - Adrian Fung, Toronto
Incorrect answers: Wrigley Field, Shea Stadium, Globe Life Park
FRIDAY
Q. Where did a former Cy Young Award winner hit his only home run in 500+ career games with more than 300 plate appearances?
Hint: Barry Bonds hit his 755th home run there to tie Hank Aaron's record.
Hint: It has hosted several World Baseball Classic games over multiple tournaments.
100 Park Boulevard, San Diego, California 92101-7405
- Hosted WBC games in 2006, 2009 and 2017
FCR - Justin Zeleny, Columbia, Maryland
Incorrect answers: Dodger Stadium, The Astrodome, Coors Field, AT&T Park, Citi Field, Qualcomm Stadium
WEEKEND INTRO BONUS
Q. Where, until this year, was the venue the farthest south that the NHL Winter Classic had ever been held?
Hint: It’s a stadium known for power.
Hint: Its original plan featured an enormous, interior-lit, rotating baseball globe atop a rotating restaurant.
Hint: To ensure that the large analog clock no longer give inaccurate times, the club simply removed the clock’s hands.
1500 South Capitol Street, SE, Washington, District of Columbia 20003-3599
- Held the NHL Winter Classic on 01-Jan-2015. Latitude 38.873093 Longitude -77.007573 (2916 site St. Louis Busch Stadium is Lat 38.622644 Long -90.192813, less than 17 miles farther south)
- Located in the national capital, the seat of power
- The rotating globe would, according to the original idea, be able to morph into a globe of the world or alternately project scores and replays. It turned out to be cost-prohibitive. The restaurant/bar did get built.
FCR – Tom Di Iaconi, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Incorrect answers: Washington, Houston, Wrigley Field, AT&T Park, Busch Stadium, Citizens Bank Park, Coors Field, Safeco Field
SATURDAY
Q. In what major league stadium can you purchase Sharp’s?
Hint. The Arctic Tailgate is an annual event.
Hint. It was where we saw Torii Hunter turn a Barry Bonds home run into a long out.
Hint: The club claims that “… (has) unique dimensions are designed to maximize every aspect of watching - and playing - America's Pastime.”
1 Brewers Way, Stop 4, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53214-3691
- Sharp’s is the Miller Brewing Company’s low-alcohol brewed beverage
- Hunter catch in the 2002 ASG. Bonds homered 2 innings later. It was the 1st of Hunter’s 5 ASF appearances.
FCR – Mark Kell, Columbia, Maryland
Incorrect answers: Target Field, Safeco Field, Comerica Park
SUNDAY
Q. About which stadium did architect Earl Santee predict that it will feel “twice as intimate as (the then current stadium in the same city)”?
Hint: The construction of the stadium and adjacent accommodations topped $1 billion.
Hint: The head county officer for the location of the new stadium called the project “Operation Intrepid”.
755 Battery Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia 30339-3017
- Cozier than Turner Field was the claim.
FCR – Jeff Kallman, Las Vegas
Incorrect answers: Marlins Park, Petco Park, AT&T Park, Comerica Park
WEEKLY THEME - Active major league venues that have never hosted a World Series game.
First Correct Respondent to Identify Theme - Vince Granieri, Cincinnati (After SAFECO!!)
Incorrect theme guesses:
Monday - Trivia about MLB ballparks
Tuesday - Stadia that have been the site of a no-hitter in the current decade
- Home ballparks of the two Griffeys.
- Ballparks that have hosted an All-Star game
- Highest rated ballparks by fans
- Ballparks within 1/4 mile of a major body of water.
Wed - Ballparks located next to bodies of water.
- Parks in which Junior Griffey homered the most
- MLB Parks whose points -- when connected by straight lines -- form a polygram that encloses the largest land area and has the longest perimeter.
- Ballparks that replaced multipurpose stadiums
- Call parks opened in the last 20 years. Newest ballparks
- MLB ballparks built in this century
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