Take Me Out to SkyDome

Welcome to Flashback Friday: Take Me Out to 34 Ballparks, a celebration, critique and countdown of every major league ballpark one baseball fan has been fortunate enough to visit in a lifetime of going to ballgames. BALLPARK: SkyDome LATER KNOWN AS: Rogers Centre HOME TEAM: Toronto Blue Jays VISITS: 1 VISITED: July 30, 1993 CHRONOLOGY: 9th of 34 RANKING: 24th of 34 I saw the future and its name was SkyDome. As Jason intimated earlier today following his coincidentally timed trip north this week, its future was short-lived, but while it represented tomorrow today, it seemed like something else. It was! It had a roof that was retractable! A real one! It could open and close in under thirty minutes! Olympic Stadium supposedly had something similar, but it never seemed to work. Olympic Stadium was yesterday from the get-go. SkyDome was tomorrow, even if tomorrow didn’t last terribly long. SkyDome was the first out-of-town ballpark I truly sought out on its own perceived merits. The fir...