{"id":4157,"date":"2013-10-13T07:46:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T13:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4157"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T16:27:18","slug":"ballpark-tour-great-american-ballpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/ballpark-tour-great-american-ballpark\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Great American Ball Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GABP\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Stadium Name:<\/strong> Great American Ball Park<\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong> Cincinnati<\/p>\n

Home Team:<\/strong> Reds<\/p>\n

Years in Service:<\/strong>\u00a02003 – Present<\/p>\n

Visits:<\/strong> 7<\/p>\n

After 32 1\/2 seasons at Riverfront Stadium<\/a>, the Reds moved next door to the newly built Great American Ball Park for the 2003 season, opening against the Pittsburgh Pirates.\u00a0 Bronze statues of former stars Joe Nuxhall, Ernie Lombardi, Ted Kluszewski, and Frank Robinson are located in front of the main entrance.<\/p>\n

Less than a month into the stadium’s existence, I made my first trip to the GABP with my friend Scott, who had moved to the Cincinnati area, to see the Reds take on the Padres.\u00a0 The next season, the Cubs opened their season in Cincinnati against the Reds, so another trip was in order, where Vice President Dick Cheney threw out the first pitch..\u00a0 In August of 2005,\u00a0I attended the Reds game against the Diamondbacks, kicking off a string of 3 stadiums in 3 states in 9 days.\u00a0 In 2006, the Cubs once again opened their season on the road against the Reds and again it constituted a road trip down to see, where this time President George W Bush threw out the first pitch.\u00a0 I made a return trip that summer for interleague play to see the White Sox battle the Reds.\u00a0 In 2007, when the Cubs were looking the clinch the division, I made the trip down, but missed it by one day.\u00a0 The next year, I made my final, to date, trip down to Cincinnati and saw the Rockies defeat the Reds.<\/p>\n

Of all the newer stadiums that have opened over the past 20 years, Great American Ball Park does not often illicit the praise that the others get.\u00a0 However, I like it.\u00a0 It’s a fine place to see a game and has plenty of the modern amenities that are required here in the 21st century.\u00a0 I wouldn’t hesitate to return, despite the fact that it has been 5 years since I’ve been there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stadium Name: Great American Ball Park Location: Cincinnati Home Team: Reds Years in Service:\u00a02003 – Present Visits: 7 After 32 1\/2 seasons at Riverfront Stadium, the Reds moved next door to the newly built Great American Ball Park for the 2003 season, opening against the Pittsburgh Pirates.\u00a0 Bronze statues of former stars Joe Nuxhall, Ernie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[120,122,4056,4053,4055,2981,598,4052,231,112,53,3610,257,661,4054,49],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-diamondbacks","tag-dick-cheney","tag-ernie-lombardi","tag-frank-robinson","tag-george-w-bush","tag-great-american-ballpark","tag-joe-nuxhall","tag-padres","tag-pirates","tag-reds","tag-riverfront-stadium","tag-rockies","tag-scott","tag-ted-kluszewski","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions\/4692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}