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Ranking the 10 best ballparks in Major League Baseball

By Will Osgood

May 23, 2015; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; General view from the press box as the Pittsburgh Pirates take batting practice before hosting the New York Mets at PNC Park. The Pirates won 8-2. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports
May 23, 2015; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; General view from the press box as the Pittsburgh Pirates take batting practice before hosting the New York Mets at PNC Park. The Pirates won 8-2. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports /
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May 23, 2015; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; General view from the press box as the Pittsburgh Pirates take batting practice before hosting the New York Mets at PNC Park. The Pirates won 8-2. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports
May 23, 2015; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; General view from the press box as the Pittsburgh Pirates take batting practice before hosting the New York Mets at PNC Park. The Pirates won 8-2. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports /

4. PNC Park

Is there another park in baseball that can match PNC Parks’ sheer beauty? All of the stadiums on this list are beautiful in one way or another. Some use rustic architecture, while some are a bit quirky (in a good way). PNC is the only one, though, where everything just seems 100 percent natural.

There isn’t a gimmick at PNC Park. The designers were simply blessed with the most beautiful sight to look out on in all of baseball. It really was their job to just not mess it up. And they nailed it.

The park allows the Allegheny River and the bridge above it to provide all the view – all the beauty one could ask for while watching a baseball game.

As for the park itself, it is thankfully not cookie-cutter, yet it also doesn’t try to be something more than it is. As such, the outfield stands jet out and in just as a baseball stadium should. An extreme pull to left field down the line can be an easy home run if the hitter is able to just keep it fair.

Left center field is a mammoth shot, as is right center. Like at AT&T Park, if a left-handed hitter really gets ahold of one, he can jack the ball in the water. But it takes a bomb. PNC doesn’t have a quirky “splash shots” meter like AT&T (nothing wrong with it, but there’s an innocence to PNC Park).

Instead, PNC Park is a good ole baseball stadium in the heart of Pittsburgh with some of the most picturesque scenery any city could ever possess. Who knew the Steel City was so beautiful? Most people probably did not, at least not until PNC Park showed up.

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