9 Best Major League Baseball Ballparks

The hosts and experts from MLB Network Radio™ weighed in on the nine best stadiums in the majors. Consider this your coast-to-coast guide on stadiums you must see as baseball season continues and the weather gets nicer and nicer.

9. T-Mobile Park

Home of the Seattle Mariners

Located a stone’s throw from the Emerald City’s central business district, the Seattle Mariners’ home stadium is a twin jewel (along with the Seahawks’ Century Link Field) of stadium/arena arrangements that work as seamlessly as possible in a busy downtown.

Toss in the huge baskets of garlic fries available at T-Mobile Park and the fact that the Pacific Northwest typically has perfect weather between May and September, and you’re talking about one helluva a nice baseball experience.

8. Petco Park

Home of the San Diego Padres

Home to the San Diego Padres and the 2016 MLB All-Star Game, Petco Park is — as MLB Network Radio’s James Memolo describes it — the “most relaxing park ever.”

“Park near the gate. Check out the harbor in the upper deck or check out the crowd on the grassy knoll behind CF wall,” Memolo says.

San Diego’s incredible craft-brewing scene is “hoppin’,” and the eminently walkable Gaslamp District is right there for you to experience.

7. Yankee Stadium

Home of the New York Yankees

“Ehh, I’m walkin’ ‘ere!!”

New Yorkers make it pretty clear who is in charge (they are, always) on the sidewalks outside of Yankee Stadium, and with the many, many Yankees championship banners adorning the place, it’s hard to blame them.

While it’s not the same beautiful, legendary rust-bucket as the original “House that Ruth Built,” the new Stadium makes up for what it lacks in mystique with modern amenities.

6. Dodger Stadium

Home of the Los Angeles Dodgers

Do you like your baseball served with a side of palm trees and exquisite sunshine? Then visit Dodger Stadium, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ picture-perfect stadium nestled in the heart of LA.

It’s served as the home of baseball in LA for over 50 years and is widely considered to be a masterpiece of mid-20th-century architecture.

5. Camden Yards

Home of the Baltimore Orioles

The park that launched the retro-design craze, Camden Yards’ style may seem commonplace now, but the Baltimore Orioles’ stadium was truly revolutionary in its vibe, design, and location when built.

Shrugging off the tired concept of a “concrete circle” multi-use stadium (picture the old Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh) for an architectural design built for baseball, in a city’s downtown with fantastic sight lines from every seat in the house, was very forward in the early 1990s. Let’s just be thankful for this park, which forced all future stadium designers to reconsider what can be done.

4. Wrigley Field

Home of the Chicago Cubs

The Friendly Confines don’t just host baseball games — they host baseball moments. Tucked into the heart of Wrigleyville, where the bars buzz before first pitch and the Red Line hums overhead, the Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field blends old-school charm with just enough modern polish to keep things comfortable.

The ivy crawling up the outfield walls, the hand-turned scoreboard, the rooftop seats lining Sheffield and Waveland… It’s nostalgia you can actually touch. Sure, the wind still plays tricks depending on which way it’s blowing off Lake Michigan, but that’s part of the deal.

3. PNC Park

Home of the Pittsburgh Pirates

If you were designing the perfect baseball backdrop from scratch, you’d be hard-pressed to top the Pittsburgh Pirates’ PNC Park. The view beyond the outfield — the Roberto Clemente Bridge stretching across the Allegheny, boats drifting by on the river, the Pittsburgh skyline rising just beyond — feels almost unfair to the rest of the league.

Opened in 2001 but timeless in feel, PNC strikes that rare balance of intimate and grand, where even the upper deck feels close to the action. Walk across the Clemente Bridge with the crowd on your way in, grab a Primanti Bros. sandwich, and settle in as the sun dips behind the city.

As host Grant Paulsen said, “Seeing people walking across the Clemente bridge to the ballpark while you’re sitting in your seat and the boats going up and down the river behind the right field stand is awesome. Just a perfect setting for baseball and an amazingly picturesque way to watch a game.”

2. Oracle Park

Home of the San Francisco Giants

“The House that Bonds Built” has served as the San Francisco Giants’ home since 2000. With its striking vistas overlooking the San Francisco Bay and with its iconic Coke Bottle in the outfield, Oracle Park is unmistakable.

The legacy of so many greats, those World Series titles in 2010, 2012, and 2014, plus a team that is seemingly always in the playoffs, has afforded a very home-partisan crowd over the years — and with it a very clear home-field advantage.

1. Fenway Park

Home of the Boston Red Sox

The oldest stadium in the majors is also the best stadium in MLB, according to our experts.

Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, has seen Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs, Manny Ramirez, Pedro Martinez, and other legends in its 100+ years of existence. Fenway may not have the best sight lines, and you can quibble about the costs of Boston, but there’s no purer experience in all of baseball.

Baseball is the religion, and Fenway is the church.