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Jeff LeCrone
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Knight's Stadium |
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When Knight's Stadium was built, the claim was that if the Charlotte area was ever awarded a major league franchise, it would be expanded so that it could host major league baseball. That might have been appropriate for 1990, but that was before Camden Yards changed everything. Back then, style was not as important. Nowadays, it's difficult to imagine what could be done to this place to make it stand up to the likes of Camden Yards, Coors Field or PNC Park, all of which have tremendous views and buckets of style. The view here is nondescript, and the style of the park could best be described as utilitarian. The most obvious attempt at any sort of "style" seems to be the seat coloring, which for some reason consists of mostly black seats (which must be murder on a hot, sunny day) with random colors along the aisles. In my opinion, it doesn't work. Still, as a AAA minor league park, it's more than adequate. The layout of the place includes two decks, creating a wide variety of seating options to satisfy both the field level lovers and the height-mongers. Unlike other stadiums of roughly the same size (namely The Diamond in Richmond and Lackawanna County Stadium in Scranton), this one doesn't feel overly big, and I think that's a good thing. It still feels like a minor league baseball park, in my opinion. That may be because the upper deck is somewhat shallow. Like other minor league parks, the outfield corners feature grassy knolls, but if I recall correctly, they are not open to the crowd unless there was a sellout. I have never quite understood that policy. Oh, well.The Bottom Line: Knight's Stadium is a comfortable, clean, but somewhat ordinary stadium. I'd give it a rating of average.
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