Updated Stadium Rankings - through Camden Yards and Nationals Park

How did Camden Yards and Nationals Park rank?  I have to say for ranking Camden Yards so low, the long trip must be affecting Michael and making him loopy.

Michael's Rankings:

1. PNC Park - Pittsburgh Pirates

2. Petco Park - San Diego Padres
3. AT&T Park - San Francisco Giants

4. Fenway Park - Boston Red Sox

5. Citizens Bank Park - Philadelphia Phillies

6. Coors Field - Colorado Rockies
7. Citi Field - New York Mets

8. Miller Park - Milwaukee Brewers

9. Anaheim Stadium - Los Angeles Angels

10. Rogers Centre - Toronto Blue Jays

11. NATIONALS PARK - WASHINGTON NATIONALS

12. Comerica Park - Detroit Tigers

13. Great American Ballpark - Cincinnati Reds

14. U.S. Cellular Field - Chicago White Sox

15. Kauffman Stadium - Kansas City Royals
16. Wrigley Field - Chicago Cubs
17. Chase Field - Arizona Diamondbacks

18. CAMDEN YARDS - BALTIMORE ORIOLES

19. Safeco Field - Seattle Mariners
20. Yankee Stadium - New York Yankees

21. Busch Stadium - St. Louis Cardinals

22. Progressive Field - Cleveland Indians

23. Dodger Stadium - L.A. Dodgers

24. Oakland Coliseum - Oakland A's

Lance's Rankings:

1. PNC Park

2. AT&T Park

3. CAMDEN YARDS
4. Petco Park

5. Safeco Field

6. Coors Field

7. Citi Field

8. Fenway Park

9. Chase Field

10. Comerica Park

11. U.S. Cellular Field

12. Miller Park

13. Kauffman Stadium

14. Citizens Bank Park

15. Great American Ballpark 

16. Busch Stadium

17. Yankee Stadium

18. NATIONALS PARK
19. Anaheim Stadium

20. Progressive Field
21. Dodger Stadium

22. Wrigley Field

23. Rogers Centre

24. Oakland Coliseum

The Premiere of our Cooperstown Video

We worked on this for a while.  We hope you like it.  This is dedicated to all fathers who play catch with their sons.

Our Cooperstown Video

A great day in Atlanta - Day 41 (6/30)

Yesterday, Michael and I enjoyed a lazy morning at my niece Kathleen's house before heading downtown in the afternoon to take a visit the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolence and Social Change with my niece and her son Turner.  We also hoped to take a tour of the CNN Studios, but we got there too late.  We'll make up for that today.

Anyway, we got to walk through the Ebenezer Baptist Church where MLK preached, which is a national historical site.  Inside, they have the music and sermons that MLK made when he preached regularly there.  It was very moving and humbling to be in a place where this extraordinary man honed his craft.

We also visited his grave site and toured the Civil Rights Museum that is part of the national park.  What I find interesting is that the children of today have a difficult time relating to a time when there was so much overt segregation and racism.  While Kathleen and I were not old enough to live through the Civil Rights Movement, we talked about how the 70's were still a time of great change.  It was kind of like a second reconstruction era that followed the Civil War.  There was still a great amount of racial tension then that kids today can't relate to.  I kind of liken it to me trying to relate to the talks my dad had with me about growing up in the depression.  Anyway, seeing the kids walk through the museum and trying to explain the exhibits with the pictures of the sit-ins, fire hoses, and segregated schools is a concept that is so foreign to them.  Of course, bigotry and racism still exists and it still very prevalent in society, but today's kids don't relate to it in the same way as we did because they haven't experienced it in the same that we did.  Anyway, just my observation.

Michael, Turner, and me at MLK's church

Inside the church

Where MLK and Coretta are laid to rest.

Photos of Rosa Parks at the Civil Rights Museum

The carriage that carried MLK's coffin during his funeral procession

Michael and Turner standing in the Freedom Walk Exhibit

Later in the day, we all went to dinner over my good friend Matt McCarthy's house.  It was great seeing him and meeting his wife Karen and their son Michael.  Matt will join us today at the Braves game.

Atlanta is a great city.  It is the most progressive and cosmopolitan city in the South as far as I'm concerned.  We hope to take a couple of more tours today at CNN and the Coca-Cola museum before we go to the Braves game where they will play the Baltimore Orioles in Turner Field with some great friends of mine.  We've got some great seats and we hope to arrive early to catch a couple of batting practice balls in the outfield.