Yankees broadcaster Suzyn Waldman ranks her favorite road baseball stadiums

With the Yankees starting the season on the road, Newsday asked radio broadcaster Suzyn Waldman to list her favorite ballparks other than Yankee Stadium to work in. Note: This is not about the fan experience, which is different than that of a broadcaster’s. Here's what she said.

1. Fenway Park, Boston

Number one for a lot of reasons is Fenway Park, and it's mostly because I grew up there. It's home and there are places in that park where I walk in where it hasn't changed in 100 years. To me, I'm walking in that place and I'm holding my grandfather's hand at the age of 3.

2. Oracle Park, San Francisco

We don't get to go there very often. It’s just spectacular if you're a fan and easy to work in and beautifully laid out if you are a broadcaster or in the press. Everybody's very helpful and it's just gorgeous there.

3. Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City

Number three, strangely, is Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, which is so pristine and beautiful, and it's an old park. But if you're working there, you go to the elevator and you go downstairs and the clubhouse is right there. Also, they have a guard on the broadcast level that finds out everybody's favorite candies and what kind of nuts they like and leaves them in little packages for you. Lovely, beautiful, and it's easy to work in, totally pristine. The fans are great and it’s beautiful with the waterfalls. It's just a beautiful, beautiful setting.

4. Target Field, Minneapolis

Another absolutely perfect park. The booths are very big. The people are really nice. You go downstairs and there you are, right at the clubhouse, easy to work. Then when you go on the field, the little guy in the guard area has little butterscotch candies in case you think you need a butterscotch. The booths are set up beautifully. They have corkboards. So instead of taping all your stats to a window, they've got a big corkboard with those pins and you just put it right there. It leaves it much cleaner.

5. Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia

Another one that has perfect press boxes. Very spacious, lots of room for everything. They actually have chairs that I can sit on that I don't have to take a ream of printer paper and sit on the chair because I can't see because it's too low. The Giants have those chairs too. Usually I have to take the reams of paper, two or three of them, and I sit on them in most of the places. Philly, great place to work, easy to get up and down, and they have the best ice cream in the league.

6. T-Mobile Park, Seattle

Absolutely beautiful park. It’s a dome when it has to be, but it's like they put an umbrella over the top of it. The sides are all open so you're still outside. Booths are tremendous to work in. They have Starbucks coffee, which is a big plus.

7. Angel Stadium, Anaheim

They were the first people that changed the stadium so that when fans leave their row, no one else has to get up. I spend two innings watching people go get hot dogs and nobody else has to get up to let them out because there’s so much room. I’m fascinated by that. Disney put waterfalls and rock formations in centerfield and you really see the mountains and you see the arena where the Ducks play and it's a beautiful vista.

8. Progressive Field, Cleveland

I think a lot of my love of Progressive Field is those great teams of Cleveland and all the games that the Yankees had with Cleveland when Albert Belle was on the team and Manny [Ramirez] and Jim Thome and all that. It's a beautiful, beautiful park. The booths are beautiful and very spacious. Everybody's very nice. And the windows. The first year they put these windows in, I just spent two innings hitting the button and making them go up and down because I was so fascinated that they could do these giant windows with a touch of a button.

9. Sutter Health Park, Sacramento

I loved Sacramento because of how hard they tried. It's a minor-league park. They redid the clubhouses and they put in all new grass and they fixed the lighting. They're trying so hard to make it a major-league park. You have to give them credit for finding room for two telecasts and two radio booths. It's very small, but they made homemade cookies and brought them out in chafing dishes. And so they get a lot of points for that. Sacramento gets four stars for really trying.

By Anthony Rieber

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