Ballpark list

Meant to tell you this. The escorts gave us a sheet with all 30 active ballparks, listed in the order they opened. Also has their capacities. I know you can get this stuff elsewhere, but to see it all organized together is fascinating.

Here's some random facts, either in black and white on the shtee or extrapolated by me:

Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is the 16th oldest.

They lost Tropicana Field as the 19th oldest with an open date for baseball of 3-31-1998. That's true, but in fact that place was standing for a decade before Tampa got the Devil Rays.

There are 11 parks (or ballparks), eight stadiums, eight fields, a dome, a centre and a coliseum. Naming trends run in streaks. Stadiums are six of the nine oldest facilities. A string of eight parks in a row ended last year when Busch Stadium opened. There were five fields in a row in the mid-1990s.

Here's one you can get only from me. Thirteen of the fields have had different names at some point, including both of the ones in Texas. Almost all of that is because of changed sponsors. The Giants park, opened in 2000, already has had two names, as has the Diamondbacks', which opened in 1998. Skydome is now Rogers Centre. For those who think they've caught me, I did include Wrigley Field in this. It opened as Weeghman Field in 1916.