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Overview
Citizens Bank Park is home to the Philadelphia Phillies of the National
League.
Replacing one of the most hated parks in the league, Citizens Bank Park
sits in the middle of parking lots. Still, it has a uniformity about it that is somewhat unique. It is a park with few curved
lines. Its basic design is octagonal, although the seats are angles for the best views.
Citizens Bank Park is unique in several respects and its innovations
were important in the evolution of retro ballparks.
Most notably, the architects split its upper deck so that the upper
deck concourse could afford fans a view of the field and prevent long treks to get to seats. In that sense it was a break
from the more traditional three tiered stadia of the era.
Unlike some of the newer parks, Citizens Bank Park's decor is genuinely
designed to be retro - it looks historic and is meant to appear that way.
One of the problems with this stadium is that because of its unique octagonal
design, some of the seats down the lines are very far back from the playing field. The architects solved this in part by adding
a sort of "notch" down the right field line where the upper deck essentially lowers itself 20 feet by latching onto what is
throughout most of the stadium a club level.
In addition, the stadium has an impressive - but very tall and not terribly
informative - scoreboard. It was one of the very first LED scoreboards in the majors, and dominates the left field view. The
rest of the view is mostly of parking lots, although the city skyline is visible deep in the distance.
Overall, it's a nice park, and probably one of the better new parks.
Still, its location is fairly generic and it isn't perfect. But compared to the Vet, who's complaining?
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Supplemental photos provided by Brandon Baker
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