Chase Field, Phoenix (What are the best seats in the house?)
What are the best seats in the house? After you’ve gone to a few hundred games, sitting all over a stadium, you get some opinions. So here are my opinions of Chase Field. Starting in 2001, we bought four tickets less than 10 rows behind home plate for 10 games each season. They were great seats, with the scouts a few seats away in one direction, Hall of Fame announcer Joe Garagiola and his wife a few seats away in another, and the family of one of the team’s stars (Steve Finley) right in front of us. And the view was great, watching Randy Johnson from only two or three times as far away as the hitter. But they cost a lot of money ($100 apiece in 2001), and our two children didn’t have the love for the game that we did. We had an agreement with the kids that they wouldn’t bring books to read during the 2001 postseason – didn’t want that on national TV. By 2007, the children were off to college, and we calculated that we could buy two full season tickets for the price we were spend...