What is the difference between ballpark and a stadium?
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In general, ballparks are single-purpose arenas used to host baseball games, and only baseball games. They can not be altered to host a football, soccer, hockey, or basketball game.\n\nA Stadium, in general, is a multi-purpose arena that can host a football game one day, a concert the next, and then a baseball game the next day. \n\nEither way, most people don't really differentiate between the two.
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it depends on the stadium, that is if u are talking about mlb.  the infield is 60.5 from the pitchers mound to home plate, and 90 feet between bases.
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Nfl has more people in stadiums.  Nascar has more television viewers which is impressive considering they are competing against 28 nfl teams.  They also average over 120,000 fans per track.  Nascar also racks up more $$$ than nfl.
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The rules are completely different.  First of all, the same players play offense and defense.  Second, because the field is so small, games can generate a total upwards of 100 points.  Also, tackles against the wall are pretty cool.  It's like basketball, hockey and outdoor football together.  You should watch it sometime.
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Wrigley Field 108,000 sq. ft.\nUS cellular field 110,000 sq. ft.
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They are no significant difference.  Even there are difference between pitchers park and hitters park, there is no difference between the league.\n\nI think you have the question because AL hitters are generally batter.  That's because NL don't use DH (pitchers have to hit), but AL do.  So offsensively AL is better, especially on RBI and runs.  It affects homerun and average as well, because it's harder for AL pitchers to pitch around.
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I want to be a homer and say PNC Park in Pittsburgh.  It is quite a small, beautiful ballpark.  Bud Selig seemed to admire it enough to bring the All Star Game back here just 12 years since we hosted it last.  And while PNC doesn't hold the same historical significance as Fenway, Wrigley, or Yankee Stadium, the tickets are dirt cheap.  I have had 9 dollar seats, 26 dollar seats, and 250 dollar seats, and the view from all of them are breathtaking.  Maybe not one of the best of all time, but the best of the new ballparks.
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There is a difference between a softball and a baseball. The softball is the big, soft one and the baseball is the little hard one.
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When you play baseball outdoors, the rules of the sport that you use (high school, college, pro, etc) govern, along with any local league rules that may or may not take precedence over the "official" rules.  You also have ground rules that apply to each individual park, such as how to treat the front of the dugout (live or dead), whether you can throw from the dugout (college rules make this a ground rule), and so on.\n\nPlaying indoors is basically the same, though you may have to add some more ground rules.  For example, if you play in the Metrodome in Minnesota... what if the ball hits a speaker above fair or foul ground?  What if the ball goes through a hole in the fabric protecting the roof?  These aren't covered in the rules, so Major League baseball had to come up with something (the speakers are live; pretend the ball didn't hit them... and it's a double if the ball stays in the ceiling)... :)
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A football field is actually slightly longer (120 yards vs. 110-120 yards for a soccer pitch) but the soccer pitch is much wider (70-80 yards vs. 53 1/3 for an American football field).
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When you say "site," do you mean a venue where they play? If so, you might need to ask again. Include the state.
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I've always prefered grass.  The game was always meant to be played on it, not artificial junk.  Plus, there's always the memory factor.  Who's played baseball that says, "I can remember the smell of the field turf," when they look back?  No one.
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It depends on the sport. In baseball for example the size of the outfield is different for every field. So the players who play on that field for most of their games have an advantage. In Basketball it's a matter of consentration. When you have tens of thousands of fans yelling at you it can be a distraction. When you get into pro-sports it isn't as much of a change since most of the players have been dealing with it for a number of years and are used to it. In College and High School sports it can make a big difference because the players are less mature. Football it is less of a factor, except for the fact that it energizes a player to have a large number of people cheering for them.
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Football & soccer are played on two possible surfaces (grass, astroturf). Baseball has two different surfaces in every game (grass or turf AND dirt). Golf (which I consider a game, not sport) has grass and sand.\nI would guess that the surface differences for tennis are based on what was available when the sport first became popular in that region. Perhaps it was cheaper to trim grass down than keep a harder surface available. Same with clay.
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In order for a small market team like Minnesota to compete, they will have to get a ball park that generates revenue (More Luxary Boxes, more high end seats.  A new ballpark generates bigger crowds as the festive atmosphere is much better than it is in a stale, dare I say boring evironment like the Metrodome.  \n\nThe Twins stadium, if it is to be funded by the tax payers will need to pass a referendum. Carl Polhad, Twins Owner, has state that if he can't get a new stadium, the Twins may have to move.
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The difference is that MLB is a real sport;\n\nrounders is just a throw away game.
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The term ball park figure has its roots in the field of astronautics in the late 1950's. When splashing down back on earth, a spacecraft was said to be in the ballpark if it landed within a designated area. This was taken from baseball, of course, where balls which were hit within the ballpark were still playable, versus those hit out of the ballpark, which were usually home runs. Therefore, a ball landing inside the park was considered a good thing for the team in the field. Ballpark first appears in print in this astronautics context in 1960, when the San Francisco Examiner noted that "[t]he Discoverer XIV capsule...came down 200 miles from the center of its predicted impact area, but still within the designated ‘ballpark’ area."\n\nThe term spread from the astronautics industry and came to be applied to anything which was "close" to correct. The San Francisco Examiner used the full phrase in the ballpark in 1968 with that meaning. Interestingly, the term ballpark figure appears in print in 1967 in the Wall Street Journal! A ballpark figure is, of course, one which is within range of the true figure.