Name That Seating Chart

[Edgy MD]

Can you identify the MLB Stadium by their seating chart?

It may be SeatGeek chart.  It may be a TicketMaster chart.  It may be a chart from any of the many other semi-criminal shakedown agencies cornering the market on tickets and pumping all sorts of premium fees in there.  You don't know!

Here's stadium number one.

[Frayed Knot]

LAD

[MFS62]

As a kid, I used to draw major league baseball stadia,(inspired by the great Willard Mullin's drawings)

Those days, this would have been a slam dunk, because of the uniqueness of those places. But because of the similarity of the newer parks, Ill pass on this one.

Later

[Edgy MD]

2 hours ago, Frayed Knot said:

LAD

That is correct.  The tipoff is not only a symmetrical playing area, but a symmetrical seating area (and pretty much a symmetrical structure) placing this one squarely in the mid-century modern generation of parks, and Dodger Stadium is the last girl standing from that era.

Our second chart comes with some nice 3D overlays and shadow effects from a fan-site devoted to the team who calls this park home.

[Frayed Knot]

The symmetry and also the single deck OF seats were what drew me to Chavez Ravine (does that name change now? ... although, in looking it up, I see it wasn't named for recent subject of cancel culture activities labor activist Cesar but someone much earlier who originally owned the property, something which should have occurred to me earlier)

 

For #2 I'm going with ARZ

[Edgy MD]

Arizona is correct.  Chase field (not named for Chevy) is one of two fields with the path between the mound and the plate.

Beyond that, the straight and perpendicular centerfield wall and the vertical bullpens situated at the foul lines (not marked in this rendering) are particular to the Phoenix ballpark.

Also, pretty symmetrical for a latter day edifice.

Let's get a sideview of #3.

[whippoorwill]

PNC?

[Frayed Knot]

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Arizona is correct.  Chase field (not named for Chevy) is one of two fields with the path between the mound and the plate.

Beyond that, the straight and perpendicular centerfield wall and the vertical bullpens situated at the foul lines (not marked in this rendering) are particular to the Phoenix ballpark.

I missed noticing the mound path, but instead got it on the straightness of the CF wall and the bullpens, those black rectangles in the corner (more or less), and also the small black space where the pool is.

 

I'll have to think about #3 and, besides, shouldn't hog three in a row anyway.

[Edgy MD]

1 hour ago, Frayed Knot said:

I'll have to think about #3 and, besides, shouldn't hog three in a row anyway.

Too late, because ...

1 hour ago, whippoorwill said:

PNC?

Cooby is on the board!  Such a limited amount of features and tiering on display in the chart, and so you'd almost think you were looking at a AAA field, when in fact you are looking at perhaps the most celebrated latter-day park off them all!

Let's look at this beloved park from the first-base side:

[whippoorwill]

See almost every night!  Picture the lovely golden Pittsburgh skyline 

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Is that Oriole Park at Camden Yards? 

[Edgy MD]

It is not Oriole Park.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't mean to intrude on this quiz, but as far as I'm concerned, this is the gold standard of seating charts. (I'm not sure, though, why they made it look like a weird piano.)

[Edgy MD]

I was looking at some sweet seats back in 1970.  The price was a little steep, but once I learned that the fence was 10 feet in high in left center and right center, well, I put my money down.

[A Boy Named Seo]

How bout Fenway?

[Frayed Knot]

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as far as I'm concerned, this is the gold standard of seating charts. (I'm not sure, though, why they made it look like a weird piano.)

What made it look like a piano was those 'black keys' which are the open areas to the mini-ramps leading down to concessions/bathrooms.  What always struck me odd about that chart was not lining up the Mezz & Upper decks with the Loge in the two corners making it look like each succeeding deck was increasingly smaller.

[Edgy MD]

3 hours ago, A Boy Named Seo said:

How bout Fenway?

That is not The Way of the Fen above.

I like how "bull pen" is two words in the Shea seating chart above.  Seemingly every term in baseball evolved that way.  Strike out became strikeout.  Home run became home run.  Even baseball was originally base ball.

Frequently, on the way from being a two-word term to being a one-worder, there's an in-between stage when the expression is stylized as a hyphenate.

[Frayed Knot]

HOU

[Edgy MD]

11 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

HOU

NOU.

Here's an overhead rendering of the same park, to give you a sense of the building's shape.

[Frayed Knot]

Oh that's Washington

[Edgy MD]

Noshington.

The DC park has a lot more bizarre features than that.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

St Louis

[Edgy MD]

No, it is not the little-loved Busch 27 or whatever number they're on.

[Edgy MD]

Maybe a shot of the actual seats rather than the seating chart will help.

[Frayed Knot]

Well that's quite obviously the one we just played at. So, on the one hand, we just saw it. On the other, we hadn't seen it for years prior to this week.

[Edgy MD]

Perhaps if the seating chart showed where the fried grasshoppers were, you might have gotten it sooner.

But hey, look at this other ballpark, where the seating chart illustrator seems to think that the grass in foul territory isn't green, but is just some void where players unwarily pursuing a fly ball can fall into oblivion.

[Frayed Knot]

That's Coors

[Edgy MD]

There you go!

Here's one that helpfully includes the surrounding streets.

[The Hot Corner]

Looks a little like Fenway.

[Gwreck]

That has to be West Sacramento, or some other minor league park.