Baseball park facts for kids
A baseball park, baseball stadium, or ball park / ballpark is a place where baseball is played. It refers to the field of play, seating areas (if any) and any other things added to it.
The flexible rules about baseball fields (aside from the rigid rules of sizes of basepaths and pitcher's mound) allow ballparks to have their own character and quirks. This happens at all levels of baseball, amateur and especially professional. This makes each stadium interesting and unique.
Field
The baseball field is a grassy field that is about 450 feet (140 m) or more in diameter, and is separated into the infield (the area nearest to the batter) and the outfield.
The infield is a square (usually called a "diamond"), with each side being 90 feet (27 m) long. In each corner of the square, there is a "base", which is a square with sides of 15 inches (38 cm). One of the bases is called home base or home plate, and the sides of the square that touch home plate are extended beyond the two nearest bases until the outfield fence (which is 300 feet (91 m) or more away from home plate) to form the foul lines. Most of what happens in a baseball game happens in the area of the field in between the foul lines and the outfield fence, which is called fair territory. All other areas of the field (except the foul lines) are called foul territory.
Major League Ballparks
Below is a list of all current ballparks for teams of major league baseball.
Images for kids
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Globe Life Field, the newest stadium in Major League Baseball
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Picture of old Yankee Stadium showing its left field fence, which was famous for being farther than the right.
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Elysian Fields
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The Huntington Avenue Grounds during the 1903 World Series.
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Fenway Park is the oldest active ballpark in Major League Baseball. The famed Green Monster is the left field fence.
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Aerial view of Three Rivers Stadium, circa 2000
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Dodger Stadium's varicolored seats
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Built originally for college football and the Olympics, the oval-shaped Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum became the temporary home of the relocated Dodgers in 1958.
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Tropicana Field, currently the only active indoor-only MLB baseball park
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Rogers Centre is the first functional retractable-roof stadium, shown with the roof both opened and closed.
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Camden Yards started the nostalgic craze with a smaller, red brick and forest green stadium.
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Progressive Field was the first retro park with a modern exterior
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Marlins Park, now known as LoanDepot Park, has a contemporary, Miami-centric design with a sculptural glass and curved depiction of "water merging with land", Miami-Deco tiles, and a bright multi-color scheme.
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The cardinal outfield dimensions, along with the backstop
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