Metropolitan Stadium 1956-1981
Ballpark Tours, Inc. was founded by bleacher-dwelling Twins fans in 1982 as Save the Met, to avoid the hermetically sealed, placticized menance Twins fans now lived with for 14 years (welcome to the fight, Carl Pohlad!).
Of course, we were squashed flatter than home plate...Anyway, since local fans couldn't see outdoor major league baseball, we decided to take fans to outdoor major league baseball -- and Ballpark Tours, Inc. was born.
Since the early '80s, we have taken fans to the best outdoor stadiums in America -- Wrigley Field, Tiger Stadium, County Stadium, Camden Yards, and Old Comiskey Park (R.I.P., dear friend...). Each year, we renew the love affair that baseball owners do their best to violate -- real fans, going to real ballparks, with real grass, paying realistic prices! That is our mission! These are our trips!
(No night games at Wrigley on Ballpark Tours trips! Photo strictly for illustration purposes)
Our annual pilgramage to Wrigley Field and Milwaukee County Stadium (going, going, gone?) will be the greatest yet, capped off by a BPT first -- Friday afternoon on a Rooftop across from Wrigley -- all the food and drink and sun you can handle! The trip also includes a heartbeat-of-America stop to see and tailgate at Single-A Rockford, two nights in downtown Chicago, another in the Brew City, plus our patented, split-city day-night Chicago/Milwaukee double-header.
Thurs., July 11: West Michigan Whitecaps @ Rockford Cubbies with tailgate party
Fri., July 12: St. Louis Cardinals-Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m.@ ROOFTOP!!
Sat., July 13: Cardinals-Cubs @ Wrigley, 1:05 p.m. / Toronto Blue Jays @ Milwaukee Brewers, 7:05 p.m.
Sun. July 14: Blue Jays-Brewers, 1:05 p.m.
Special thanks to Paul Munsey's Ballparks Page for the Wrigley and Met Stadium photos -- other great stadium shots, old and new, available at this site!