New Marlins Ballpark

"February 15, 2011- The Florida Marlins are warming up for the start of baseball season with two historic milestones Tuesday. The new Marlins Ballpark had its first seat installed followed by the first batting practice inside the stadium.
"... nineteen months into construction and officials are proudly boasting the project remains on-time and on-budget."
- CBS Miami

Opening Day is coming

Link list for Friday:

• Hal Steinbrenner: Some Yanks tix may be overpriced
• more on the new Stadium
  
• Video: Camaden Yards upgrades
• Fenway completes annual upgrades

We'll get more info on these stories soon.

Citi Field Virtual Tour

The Mets still offer only a Virtual Tour of a Virtual Citi Field, the computer model. They also have a time-lapse construction video.
now have panoramic views of Citi Field from a great variety of locations around the park. Pretty cool.

Here's the terrific Flickr group.

The Streetview is here.

Yankee Stadium

The Yanks offer a 3d seat selector for the new Yankee Stadium that's a little cooler. They also have a video tour. a selection of panoramic views of the old Stadium as it looked in 2008.

The Flickr group of this new park is excellent, too.

When will the satellite mappers catch up with construction so we can see Bird's Eye and Street Views ?


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The History of SF Ballparks

Nice job by WaterByTheBay415 [but his account is now closed]

Here's a nice memoir of Seals' Stadium

3D Tours of MLB Ballparks

This is a good recorded tour recorded in Google Earth, though it's low-res.

This tour mixes Google Earth and a video game. Pretty cool. This is part 2, just the NL.

Comiskey Park - original

There are some great videos of old Comiskey Park on Youtube. Here's one



There are more linked from there, as well as many videos on other ballparks. Lots for me to catch up on.

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