As some of you know, I am an aspiring connoisseur of ballparks. Fourteen MLB parks and 11 minor league parks now. I realize this is small potatoes compared to many, but I do what I can with the slow pace at which I must proceed. As work has taken me to Montgomery, Alabama several times of late, I was looking forward to finally catching a ball game and seeing the new stadium, built in 2004. Riverwalk Stadium, home of the Montgomery Biscuits, has a particularly unique property to it, that I've not seen to this point at other parks. While it is a "new" stadium, an old, existing structure was incorporated into it. And I LOVE reuse of old structures.
You can tell from below picture that the outside of the stadium is old. It is a former train station, where the ticket booths and gift shop, etc, are built into.
In this picture, you can see that the upper deck suites were incorporated into the inside of the train station as well.
The ball game experience was nice. Fun stuff going on between each inning, trains going by just outside the park, and fresh biscuits being thrown into the crowd. Even though the Biscuits lost, they did so in extra innings, culminating a long, hard-fought game.
If you'd like, you can
see more Pictures of Riverwalk here.
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