Best College Baseball Atmosphere

For me it is anywhere I can find one to watch !!!!

TRhit

Without a doubt it is any big rivalry weekend at Mississippi State. 10,000 to 12,000 per game is not unheard of!

Other great places:
Alabama - (versus Auburn last year 14,0000+)
Auburn
LSU (typical weekend series is 7,000+)
South Carolina

These are per game numbers

Bob,
"Doing nothing is still a course of action"

I'll have to go with TR. I'll watch a ball game anywhere and anytime.

LSU for a night game. The park has the smell of Jack Daniels from 2 miles away and the home crowd is a bit rowdy.

Mississippi State, nothing else needs to be said the fans of MSU are the best and so are the facilities.

Miami: The weather is great, the team is good and South Beach is a short drive from Coral Gables.

college?.......for me its anywhere.....I know there are great parks, but Ive had great times at HS games, PONY games.....legion games....and LL games.....if its being played with a white ball with red stitches, Im happy

If everything goes to plan I should be at the Miss-Miss St series in early April. Heard enough about that atmosphere that I can't wait!

TA-remember me? How's IMG going for your kid?

There IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD LIKE....an SEC Weekend at Mississippi State!

Left Field Lounge...the fans...the tshirts.

Nicest and most knowledgeable fans on the planet!

LSU is a close second...except that they have too many obnoxious fans..that was at Alex Box...Haven't been to the new place.

For me there is nothing like Florida State baseball and those crazies in Sec. B. Plus now with the expanded and renovated Dick Howser Stadium it is baseball heaven.

Where is the California love?
Cal State Fullerton is a great place to watch college baseball. I can smell the Kettle Korn now!

Steve Trombly
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Bobby Winkles Field at Packard Stadium in Tempe is the place to be to watch marquee Pac 10 matchups between powerhouses Arizona State and Stanford....amazing games. The stadium should be more amazing then it already is when they are done with all of the renovations.

chicks dont dig the long ball, they dig the high heat.

I was fortunate to have watched three JUCO games this past weekend in the Florida Panhandle area and in Central Florida. They play a fine great brand of baseball, down there.

This afternoon, its a high school scrimmage game -- Goodpasture v. BGA. In fact, we've got six (6) HS scrimmage games between now and Sunday. It's baseball and buttercups time in Tennessee.

I'm with TR. Anytime. Anywhere.

- Whoever said a walk was as good as a hit, couldn't hit.

Anyplace/Anytime my son is playing.

Watching the Aggies at Olsen Field is as good as it gets for me. Incredible field, great crowds & crowd participation. Wish I was going this weekend...

"Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser." Sandy Koufax

I like to watch the smaller colleges in the Austin area. You can stand or sit right next to the backstop and actually hear what the coaches and players are saying.

I can dig anywhere where they let you in the ballpark early enough for batting practice, when you can get up close to the players while they hone their craft. The best atmospheres I have seen is Wake forest or Clemson. It is also great to go to a good DII and get up close to the players. And their are usually good atmospheres in the conference tournaments where you can watch two or three of the best teams in your conference in one day. One time I saw Wake forest play Florida State, and then Georgia Tech play Clemson. It was amazing.

the view is always the same unless you're the lead dog

Callawy and I say Clemson-South Carolina. Last year UM played Florida in the super regionals at Miami. You couldn't get near the place. Always great games when teams from same state play against each other.

This weekend, Petco field, San Diego, CA. Over 33,000 tickets sold. Largest college baseball crowd in history. Also love NCAA Regionals at ANY level. Intensity and emotion you can cut with a knife. Finally, Cardines Field in Newport, RI. Home of the Newport Gulls in the NECBL. Oldest field in US, wonderful, noisy, large crowds in a great atmosphere for baseball.

TARATKO-

Glad to hear that. Let us know what the future holds. Mine is doing fine. Pitching more than I would like.Lol. Will see him later this month in Fort Myers before-hopefully-going to Miss-Miss St. series.

Take care.

Coral Gables, Florida when the hated seminoles are in town. The stadium is old and the concrete benches are hard, but you can stand right behind the fence and smell and hear everything. Its so much better than the pro atmosphere.

I finally broke down and got season tickets for the UM baseball season.

Tony Gwynn field at San Diego State is amazing. Sancet Field at the University of Arizona is great. For top competition, tough to beat ASU. Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech have wonderful new stadiums. Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount overlook the Pacific Ocean. The University of Richmond has a quaint ball field in great surroundings on its close-in suburban campus. The new park at Stetson is tough to beat. I find the setting at Virginia Tech's English Field absolutely idyllic, sort of a college version of Wrigley Field.

That said, nothing -- and I mean nothing -- can compare with Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha at World Series time. It beats the Final Four by a lot.

I read in the U-T the other day that SDSU normally nets $35,000 in fund raising per year. But this year due to Moores and the Pads, ticket sales for the Petco Aztec Tourney are over $1,000,000... with approx $700,000 going to the Aztecs! Now that's a fundraiser!

Frenso State has great local fan support, average game attendance is 2,600. Yes, it is Fresno, but all athletes love to play before rabid fans.

In the middle of the OC, near Newport Beach, CA is the #18 Team (according to BA) the UC Irvine Anteaters. http://www.athletics.uci.edu/FAC/baseball.html

Go Eaters!

Look! Bullwinkle can clap and wink at the same time!

Sunken Diamond Stanford University is a great place to watch a ball game. Along the right or left field lines you can bring a chair and sit in the grassy areas. The teams not bad either!