MAJOR LEAGUE STADIUM RANKINGS

To get these rankings, I looked at the following elements of each park: Ticket prices, seating options, parking/transit, food, fans, friendly staff, ambience, and view. I ranked each stadium from 1 to 30 and totaled the numbers. I then applied a factor to each number, because I feel that ambience and seating options are more important than view and fans. Here are the results; the number in brackets is the final weighted score. The best possible score would be 15, the worst would be 435.

THE TOP 5

These parks are the best - all of them are new, which shows where my bias lies.

1. PNC Park (79) - Beautiful view, great food, easy parking, and the walk over the Clemente bridge make this our favourite park.
2. Camden Yards (85) - The Scalp-Free zone allows you to get great seats below cost, and this is the original retro park. Eutaw Street is fun, and Boog's BBQ should satisfy the hungriest fan. 
3. Pac Bell Park (111) - The location allows for great views, but it causes traffic jams in and out. Excellent transit makes up for this, and the atmosphere here is one of the best. Great on a sunny day.
4. Safeco Field (121) - Nothing in particular stands out about Safeco, but a friendly staff and good food, along with a great sold-out atmosphere, made this a fun park to see a game. 
5.  Miller Park (135) - Only the location detracts from this magnificent stadium. A great lower seating section and delicious bratwursts made this a park worth revisiting. $1 Uecker seats are also a plus.

THE NEXT 4

These next parks are good as well, but may have one negative that kept them out of the top 5. 

6. Wrigley Field (148) - A great park for a day game, good fans, the Ivy - this is one of the best. However, parking difficulties and expensive tickets knock it down to 6th spot in our opinion. 
7. Jacobs Field (150) - The Jake is very attractive, and its asymmetrical design is neat. Interesting seating areas add to the experience. 
8. Coors Field (153) - Mountain vistas make the upper deck a great place to be, but the silly rule that prohibits you from standing below the 10th row of the lower deck before the game hurts the friendliness ranking, sending Coors down to 8th. 
9. Bank One Ballpark (166) - World Series Game 7! A park that looks like an airplane hangar shouldn't be this high on the list, but friendly staff and $1 seats really help.

MIDDLE OF THE PACK

Still good places to go, but not really outstanding in any of the categories that we ranked.

10. Kauffman Stadium (182) - If this park was downtown, it would be in the top 5. The best of the cookie-cutter stadiums, we hope that this park is around for a while. Great cheap tickets are available right up to game time, which makes the K a place to go. 
11. Comerica Park (187) - Comerica has a lot of interesting attractions outside the game itself, which is good given the Tigers' recent history. Could be the center of a downtown Detroit renaissance. 
12. Fenway Park (190) - An historical park that has great seats everywhere, but the high ticket prices hurt its ranking. 
13. Great American Ballpark (193) - A nice new park, but lacking in ambience. Still needs some work on the outside. 
14. Turner Field  (199) - Hard to believe this used to be an Olympic Stadium. A good park with $1 seats, but lacking in any real atmosphere.
15.  Enron Field (201) - About to be renamed, this park tries too hard to be like the other retro parks. Located in a rather empty area, perhaps the centerpiece of another downtown renewal.

NEED SOME WORK

The lower half of the rankings, these parks are just average and are not a lot of fun for one reason or another.

15. Comiskey Park (222) - Just an average park - the biggest attraction is outside, where the location of the home plate from the original Comiskey Park is preserved. 
16. Ballpark in Arlington (223) - A nice stadium, but its location and expensive tickets make being a fan here more difficult than it should be. 
17. Edison Field (235) - A recent renovation has improved the look of the park, and the staff are very friendly, but the fans and lack of ambience hurt the ranking. Best food was here! 
18. Busch Stadium  (242) - Great fans bring this cookie-cutter up several notches. Very few good seats here, and some unfriendly staff bring it back down.
19. Dodger Stadium (244) - Nearly impossible to move around here, and parking is a hassle as the lots are numbered in some strange order. 
20. Yankee Stadium (253) - I didn't have a category for history, so Yankee Stadium suffers in the rankings. Tough to get good seats, and tough to move around - fans are not as knowledgeable as their reputation. 

MULTI-USE MONSTROSITIES

These parks are not baseball-only parks and suffer as a result.

21. Qualcomm Stadium (262) - Soon to be destroyed, this park is average in every respect. Best thing is the transit system that gets you there. 
22. Skydome (265) - When it opened, it was state-of-the-art, but now it is too big to house the remaining fans. Upper deck is just too far away. 
23. Network Associates Coliseum (270) - I am surprised this park is ranked so low because I enjoyed it, but the seats are far from the field, and the location is not that good.
24. Tropicana Field  (272) - Not as bad as I expected - good seats all around, but the roof and the poor team hurts the ambience.
25. Metrodome (289) - Good fans keep this otherwise obsolete dome out of the last category. 

BETTER OFF WITHOUT THEM

27. Pro Player Stadium (313) - A football stadium. Please build a new park or get rid of the team. 
28. Shea Stadium (318) - Why so low? Terrible seating choices, expensive, and the least-friendly game staff. We had a terrible experience here and it is tough to remove the bias.
29. Olympic Stadium  (321) - Amazingly avoiding last place, my Canadian pride helps out this stadium, which may not be used again.
30. Veterans Stadium (340) - Terrible parking, terrible seats, terrible turf. This baby is not long for this world - looking forward to a new stadium.

BEST AND WORST BY CATEGORY

As mentioned, the following categories were considered: ticket prices, seating options, parking, transit, food, fans, friendly staff, guest relations (designated driver program, etc), view and overall ballpark ambience. The best and worst park in each category are listed below. Please remember these are just my opinions, given here as a guide to what you can expect.