Ballparks that are considered "Band Boxes"

[Coach Bombay]

In light of the fiasco at the new Yankee Stadium, I'm curious as to what other parks are considered band boxes.

I've always heard these 5 are:

Camden Yards
Great American Ballpark
Ballpark in Arlington
Coors Field
Citizen Bank Park

Anymore?

Also, I'm not sure a band box necessarily means its a bad ballpark, considering Camden Yards a known as one of the nicest parks in baseball.

[dpcv8]

Fenway and Tiger Stadium in their heydays.

The original Band Box was the Baker Bowl in Philly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Bowl

[Ralf]

Its pretty clear NYS will be the worst of them all. 17 hrs in 3 games? Yikes. What a disaster.

[nymdan]

Minute Maid Park, at least to LF.

[Coach Bombay]

Fenway and Tiger Stadium in their heydays.

The original Band Box was the Baker Bowl in Philly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Bowl

What's different about Fenway? now and in there hey day?

[dpcv8]

What's different about Fenway? now and in there hey day?

I don't know, but that's what it was called.

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg. It was built in 1912 and rebuilt in 1934, and offers, as do most Boston artifacts, a compromise between Man's Euclidean determinations and Nature's beguiling irregularities. Its right field is one of the deepest in the American League, while its left field is the shortest; the high left-field wall, three hundred and fifteen feet from home plate along the foul line, virtually thrusts its surface at right-handed hitters.

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http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/hub_fans_bid_kid_adieu_article.shtml

[mandrake]

Ebbets Field, especially when they added seats and cut center field to 393.
Wrigley Field only when the wind is blowing out. When it blows in, it is a tough place to hit.
Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.....guess why they called it the launching pad?
Tiger Stadium for Lefties. Don't believe me, ask George Brett !

[toefer]

Well didn't bandbox originally just mean it was a small park? And there is a general assumption that small parks would lead to lots of homeruns.

So maybe Fenway was just called a bandbox because of it's size, not because it actually gave up a lot of homeruns.

Whereas now the term seems to refer to stadiums that give up lots of homeruns (because none of them area really small).

:shrug:

[SoxfanNH]

Fenway's Green Monster actually prevents a lot of home runs. Curt Schilling originally didn't want to come play for the Red Sox because he thought it was a homerun friendly park. But after he was shown data that proved otherwise, he changed his mind. Fenway was 9th in the American League last leason with 1.81 homeruns per game.

http://letsgodeep.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=141&Itemid=2