Comiskey Park

Moon rising over center field

StubHub is the place to get cheap tickets to a game.  While in Chicago I decided to take advantage and go to a baseball game.  Since the Whitesox were in town, the Whitesox it would be.

The new park is modeled similarly to the old one

We Yankee fans are spoiled

Again this is not much of a hike, although it's not nature, baseball stadiums can be works of art and a site to admire.  Having said this, I most certainly would have rather gone to the original Comiskey which was the oldest park at the time of demolition.  Now Fenway has that honor and only Fenway and Wrigley predate WWII.

I really hope the people of Chicago realize how lucky they've got it.  Both of their baseball parks and Soldier Field (home of the Bears) are located near subway stops.  All of them are about 20 minutes from downtown.  This would be the equivalent of having stadiums in uptown Manhattan or Downtown Brooklyn, instead of having to chug all the way up to the Bronx or Queens for a game.

The view from left

As you can see, it was cold

Right Field.  You can walk around stadium and watch game from just about anywhere.

Tonight for $6 I had great seats in left field near the bullpen.  Sitting there it took me a while to remember the last game I had been to.  It was 1998 at Yankee Stadium.  So it was quite exciting to be at a game after all this time.  It also didn't hurt that the game was exciting with quite a few balls hit into left field and a homerun that was hit into the bullpen.    

I'd like to see those jumbo trons go.  But the moon was nice.

I doubt there were 15,000 there. Even the good seats were half empty