Goodbye Vetrans' Stadium

[DEAD!]

[NJTank]

The last of the cookie cutters is gone.

Riverfornt, Three Rivers, and the Vet were bascially the same stadium in differnt cities, all opened within 18 months and now all are memories.

All also sympboized teh growth of Astroturf which with in 5 years will also be a memory.

[thejroll]

Busch Stadium in St. Louis was also built in the same design as the cookie cutter stadiums.

[NJTank]

True and it looks it will be gone soon too I belive they broke gorund on a new stadium set to open in 2006.

[habsfannova]

Veterans had bad turf, it was ugly, and perfectly round.

BUT, it's what a government-built stadium should be: Useful for two sports, gets the job done with as little frills as possible. The best use of tax money, instead of buidling two $200mil + USD stadiums. Having two government funded stadiums for one sport each (Like in Tampa, where they have a dome, but had to build a brand-new football stadium) is the stupidist use of tax money in history.

If that happened here, wow, they'd be in SOooo much trouble...

[CC97]

And there goes another Blue Jays World Series stadium... speaking of AstroTurf and how it's almost a memory (SkyDome the only stadium in MLB to still use it), the Dome is experimenting with putting real grass in the stadium for a soccer game in July... perhaps this will lead them towards field turf? who knows.

[goalieboy82]

RFK will go one of these days

[IronChefShark]

And there goes another Blue Jays World Series stadium... speaking of AstroTurf and how it's almost a memory (SkyDome the only stadium in MLB to still use it), the Dome is experimenting with putting real grass in the stadium for a soccer game in July... perhaps this will lead them towards field turf? who knows.

Minnesota still uses it.

and if you count it, (Im sure CC does) so does Montreal

[JQK]

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

[DEAD!]

And there goes another Blue Jays World Series stadium... speaking of AstroTurf and how it's almost a memory (SkyDome the only stadium in MLB to still use it), the Dome is experimenting with putting real grass in the stadium for a soccer game in July... perhaps this will lead them towards field turf?  who knows.

Minnesota still uses it.

and if you count it, (Im sure CC does) so does Montreal

I thought Minnesota and Montreal we changing surfaces this year.

[Breakwood]

Montreal has changed to fieldturf, mostly because the company that makes field turf is based in Montreal.

[CC97]

And there goes another Blue Jays World Series stadium... speaking of AstroTurf and how it's almost a memory (SkyDome the only stadium in MLB to still use it), the Dome is experimenting with putting real grass in the stadium for a soccer game in July... perhaps this will lead them towards field turf?  who knows.

Minnesota still uses it.

and if you count it, (Im sure CC does) so does Montreal

Sorry Shark, you missed the offseason changes.

Minnesota, Montreal, and even San Juan have converted to FieldTurf

[jkrdevil]

Busch Stadium in St. Louis was also built in the same design as the cookie cutter stadiums.

No, Busch is more like a closed off Shea Stadium.

[DEAD!]

Busch Stadium in St. Louis was also built in the same design as the cookie cutter stadiums.

No, Busch is more like a closed off Shea Stadium.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

[IceCap]

Montreal, and even San Juan have converted to FieldTurf

different stadiums, same team. expos, just end our misery and get the out of canada. usally im not for getting rid of canadian teams, but when one plays 1/2 of its home games in san juan, then an exeption must be made.

go jays go

[IronChefShark]

I guess I did miss the changes

I was going on what they have down on ballparks.com. guess they havent updated that part yet

[NJTank]

Wow that would leave SkyDome as the last stadium with traditionbal ugly injury causing astro turf.

[the_cynic]

I'm sorry to see one of the last "cookie cutter" stadiums to go.

The old Kingdome in Seattle could have been considered a "cookie cutter" but only with a roof!

[NJTank]

The Kindome was a giant juicer not a cookie cutter.

[the_cynic]

Much like the Tropicana Field.