Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg Stadium Scorecard
August 11, 2010 Posted in 30 in 30, baseball, Baseball - MLB, Sports, Travel & Money

Tropicana Field has a fair amount of free street parking available within a five minute walk of the stadium. Drive around on the side streets for a few minutes and you should be able to find something.

The stadium itself was not as bad as everyone made it out to be. The air conditioning was a nice break from steamy Tampa, every seat was relatively good and the unbaseball related entertainment was kick ass.

Tropicana has a beautiful cigar bar located on the second floor and if you’re 21 or older definitely check out the Captain Morgan lounge in centerfield, you’ll have a great view of the game and of the sring ray tank below.

We heard so much about the Trop’s low white roof and how pop flies often hit off of it during the game. We saw this first hand and the roof’s catwalk actually cost the Rays the game.
See all the pictures from our visit to Tropicana Field!
Tropicana Field Ratings
The rating system is based on a scale of 1 to 5 Fredi Gonzalez heads. 1 Fredi Gonzalez head is a lowest rating and 5 Fredi Gonzalez head is the highest rating.
Hot Dog

$5 regular, $6 for the “Heater” specialty with chili and cheese

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7th Inning Tradition
“Take me out to the ballgame”

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Signature Food
Yber Cuban Sandwich – $5

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16oz Beer Prices
$8

Note: $3 = 5 heads, $4.50 = 4 heads, $6 = 3 heads, $7.50 = 2 heads, $9.50 = 1 head, $10 or greater = 0 heads
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Bathroom Line at Bottom of the 4th Inning

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Stadium Superfan


Note: he is dead and they play a video of him.

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Street T-shirts
Note: didn’t see any available.
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Mascot

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Signature Player Chant
N/A
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Bleacher Fans


Note: It was a seat of children, thousands and thousands.
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Pregame Bar
Ferg’s

Note: We went there after the game since first pitch was at noon.
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Stadium Aesthetics

Note: Dome aside there were cool bars, a cigar room and rays take.
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Stadium Atmosphere

Note: It would have been a 2.5 but the Rays Girls upped the ranking .5 Joe Madden heads.
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I'm pretty sure that's Joe Maddon's head, and not Fredi Gonzalez. That edit aside, I think that you're right that the Trop is often short changed, and you didn't even mention the Ted Williams Hitters Museum. For comparison sake, here's the review from my visit for Stadium Journey…
http://www.stadiumjourney.com/stadiums/tropicana-…