Ball Park Trivia Homework

BALL PARK TRIVIA HOMEWORK

1. What's the oldest Major League Baseball stadium still in use?

Fenway Park in Boston

2. Which ballpark doesn't have a retractable roof?

Enron Field

3. At 5,280 feet above sea level, Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, has the highest altitude of any Major League ballpark. Which has the second-highest?

Turner Field, Atlanta

Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, Arizona

4. What relatively new park shares a name with its razed predecessor?

Comiskey Park

Veterans Stadium

Shea Stadium

5. What's the Green Monster?

Seattle Mariners mascot Left-field fence at Fenway

The Metrodome's turf

6. What distinctive feature can you find at Houston's Enron Field?

A train

An oil derrick

Free chili

7. Which city's baseball stadium wasn't host for Olympic opening ceremonies?

Atlanta, Georgia

Los Angeles, California

Montreal, Quebec, Canada ANSWERS

1. What's the oldest Major League Baseball stadium still in use?

Fenway Park in Boston

Wrigley Field in Chicago Yankee Stadium

2. Which ballpark doesn't have a retractable roof?

Enron Field

SkyDome Tropicana Field

Yep. The Tampa Bay (Florida) Devil Rays play indoors, even on sunny spring days.

3. At 5,280 feet above sea level, Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, has the highest altitude of any Major League ballpark. Which has the second-highest?

Turner Field, Atlanta

Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City

Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, Arizona

Yes. At 1,100 feet, it's a distant second. Bank One

4. What relatively new park shares a name with its razed predecessor?

Comiskey Park

Veterans Stadium

Shea Stadium

Nice going! Comiskey Park opened in 1991 on Chicago's South Side, across the street from the original.

6. What's the Green Monster?

Seattle Mariners mascot

Left-field fence at Fenway

The Metrodome's turf

You hit it out of the park! The daunting wall is the stuff of baseball legend in Massachusetts

8. What distinctive feature can you find at Houston's Enron Field? A train An oil derrick

Free chili

Yep. The 48,000-pound train runs on 800 feet of track just off left-center field.

9. Which city's baseball stadium wasn't host for Olympic opening ceremonies?

Atlanta, Georgia Los Angeles, California

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Light that torch. It was host to Olympic baseball in '84, but the big bash was at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum.