Seat Markers for HRs

[PVNICK]

I know in the past seats woudl be marked for, say, upper deck HRs, so that at any given stadium there might be some marker where Frank Howard or willie Stargell, for example, once put one in the upper deck. Do they still do this especially in the new parks?

[marlins739]

When the White Sox replaced the original light blue seats at US Cellular Field with dark green seats in 2006 they left two blue seats where home runs from the 2005 World Series landed. Paul Konerko's grand slam and Scott Podsednik's walk off home run from game 2 are marked with a plaque on the two blue seats in the outfield

http://blogs.timesunion.com/baseball/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/konerkoblue1.jpg http://blogs.timesunion.com/baseball/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/podsblue2.jpg

[TJH1923]

When the White Sox replaced the original light blue seats at US Cellular Field with dark green seats in 2006 they left two blue seats where home runs from the 2005 World Series landed. Paul Konerko's grand slam and Scott Podsednik's walk off home run from game 2 are marked with a plaque on the two blue seats in the outfield

http://blogs.timesunion.com/baseball/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/konerkoblue1.jpg http://blogs.timesunion.com/baseball/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/podsblue2.jpg

It looks like some enterprising fan was trying to remove the seat plaque. Very Bad.......I wonder why he or she stopped.

[Mex4Prez]

http://blogs.timesunion.com/baseball/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/konerkoblue1.jpg

historic or not, I'd be pretty ticked off if I got that seat and paid the same price as the guy next to me. They can paint it rainbow if they want, but atleast have the same quality chair.

[KevinWI]

historic or not, I'd be pretty ticked off if I got that seat and paid the same price as the guy next to me. They can paint it rainbow if they want, but atleast have the same quality chair.

Dude, that is exactly what I was thinking. Looks like somebody just put a cheap, ugly blue lawn chair in the middle of all those ballpark seats.

[bosoxgo]

Back in 1946, one of the greatest Red Sox players to ever put on the uniform accomplished a feat of mythic proportions. Ted Williams (that's his number 9 up on the balcony facade) launched a pitch 502 feet into the right field bleachers - the longest home run ever hit at Fenway Park. The seat was painted red and sits among a sea of green to commemorate the feat and give fans a very visible reminder of the greatness that has been on display at Fenway all these years.

http://graphics.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/01/22/1169484898_8613.jpg

[AutographCollector]

It looks like some enterprising fan was trying to remove the seat plaque. Very Bad.......I wonder why he or she stopped.

That seat plaque is riveted in there (4 rivets). He or she would need a tool box to remove that sucker.

[Onemoredayatshea27]

Isn't there a seat in Shea Stadium that honors Tommie Agee's homerun. I don't have a picture though.

[Mex4Prez]

Agee has a big baseball marker on the cement in between the upper/lower sections of the upper deck at shea. It's hard to see in this pic, but it is the only known fair ball upperdeck shot at Shea during a game.

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/8171/sheastadiumqt3.jpg

[MattD1972]

During the Canden Yards tour, they point out two markers in the outfield : Eddie Murray's 500th Home run and the HR from Cal Ripken's 2131st game. There are also the brass markers in the concrete in Eutaw Street.

[hofflalu]

The seat where Harmon Killebrew's 520-foot home run landed at Met Stadium (longest ever hit there) is marked in the Mall Of America on the wall of The Park At MOA (formerly Camp Snoopy, soon to be Nickelodeon Universe).

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/3/3c/MOA_Killebrew_chair1.JPG

[hsnterprize]

During the Canden Yards tour, they point out two markers in the outfield : Eddie Murray's 500th Home run and the HR from Cal Ripken's 2131st game. There are also the brass markers in the concrete in Eutaw Street.Isn't there some kind of marker where Ken Griffey, Jr. hit a home run off the warehouse during the 1993 Home Run Derby at Camden Yards? I remember watching him do that...the people outside the right field fence went crazy when Junior hit the building on the fly. I think he hit a low part of the building...but he hit it nonetheless.

[zxasqw12]

Agee has a big baseball marker on the cement in between the upper/lower sections of the upper deck at shea. It's hard to see in this pic, but it is the only known fair ball upperdeck shot at Shea during a game.

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/8171/sheastadiumqt3.jpg

Here's a close up taken from last season...

[The Monument]

I believe that the Yankees honored Mickey Mantle's 500th with a plaque in the RF seats, but either somebody swiped it or it was removed during the renovation and never replaced.

[skobabe8]

historic or not, I'd be pretty ticked off if I got that seat and paid the same price as the guy next to me. They can paint it rainbow if they want, but atleast have the same quality chair.

Those seats were there for 15 years. Theres really not much of a difference. You make it sound like you'd be sitting on nails.

[Astros]

In 1970 Jimmy Wynn and Doug Rader hit homers into the left field upper deck at the Astrodome. The home runs were hit a week apart and to the same row in the upper "Gold Level" with just a few seats separating them. The Astros had an artist paint the seats to mark them. They remained in place until 1985 when the seats were refurbished and repainted to match the blue, red, orange and yellow of the Astros rainbow jerseys (which ironically they stopped using just two seasons later). The seat locations were remarked during the renovation.

Eric Anthony (1990) and Mike Simms (1996) also had upper deck homers for the Astros but Anthony's was the last to be marked although the location of the Simms homer was documented. In late 1999 Carl Everett became the last Astro to hit an upper level shot but it came just a few weeks before the Astros ended their playing time at the Astrodome and there wasn't much talk about it.

Here's a shot of the original seat back where Jimmy Wynn's home run landed in 1970.

[PeteU]

I couldn't find a picture of it, but Memorial Stadium had a large flag simply saying "Here" to mark the spot where Frank Robinson hit a ball entirely out of Memorial Stadium, the only player to do so.

A diagram of the mighty shot:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Baltimore_Memorial_Stadium_here1.JPG

[hsnterprize]

historic or not, I'd be pretty ticked off if I got that seat and paid the same price as the guy next to me. They can paint it rainbow if they want, but atleast have the same quality chair.Well...you can be ticked off if you wish. But the person who sits in that chair is a season ticket holder. So evidently, he or she isn't complaining.