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A ranking of the 45 ballparks where I’ve seen MLB games, Part 3

At first glance I’ll bet you can’t identify the stadium at the top of this post. Is it Riverfront Stadium? Three Rivers Stadium? Busch Stadium II?

You’re not the only one. Richie Hebner, who played for the Cubs in 1984 but before that spent 13 years with one of the “concrete ashtray” stadiums as his home park, once said of Veterans Stadium, “I stand at the plate at the Vet in Philadelphia and I don’t honestly know whether I’m in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis or Philly. They all look alike.”

They did, too. It’s Three Rivers above, but the Vet in Philly, Busch II in St.