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/ June 16, 2026
Hard Rock Stadium opened on August 16, 1987, in Miami Gardens, Florida, as the home of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins. Built for $115 million and originally named Joe Robbie Stadium, the venue cycled through several identities over the decades before Hard Rock Cafe Inc. secured
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/ June 16, 2026
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, universally nicknamed “The Swamp,” is the home of the University of Florida Gators football team in Gainesville, Florida. The stadium opened on November 8, 1930, as a 21,769-seat facility called Florida Field, and nine decades of expansions have grown it into
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/ June 16, 2026
NRG Stadium is a multi-purpose retractable-roof stadium located at 1 NRG Parkway in Houston, Texas, that opened on August 24, 2002. Built at a cost of approximately $352 million and designed by HOK Sport (now Populous), it became the permanent home of the Houston Texans
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/ June 16, 2026
The Wells Fargo Center opened on August 12, 1996 as the CoreStates Center in South Philadelphia, replacing the aging Spectrum as home of the Philadelphia Flyers (NHL) and Philadelphia 76ers (NBA). Built at a cost of $210 million on the former site of John F.
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/ June 15, 2026
Exhibition Stadium — officially the Canadian National Exhibition Stadium and nicknamed ‘The Ex’ — stood on the Exhibition Place grounds along Lake Shore Boulevard West in Toronto, Ontario. Opened on August 5, 1959, it served as home to the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football
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/ June 15, 2026
South End Grounds was the home of Boston’s National League baseball franchise for more than four decades, from 1871 to 1914 — the longest home-field tenure in the franchise’s history. Located at the northeast corner of Columbus Avenue and Walpole Street in Boston’s South End,
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/ June 15, 2026
Huntington Avenue Grounds was a wooden baseball stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, that served as the first home of the Boston Americans — later renamed the Red Sox — from 1901 to 1911. Built for approximately $35,000 on a former circus lot, the park opened on
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/ June 15, 2026
Empower Field at Mile High opened on August 11, 2001, replacing the original Mile High Stadium as the home of the Denver Broncos. Built at a cost of $400.9 million and designed by HNTB and Fentress Architects, the 76,125-seat venue sits at precisely 5,280 feet
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/ June 15, 2026
The Melbourne Cricket Ground, affectionately known as ‘the G’, stands in Yarra Park in East Melbourne as the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the eleven largest venues on earth. First opened in 1853, the ground holds up to 100,024 spectators across
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/ June 15, 2026
Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is the on-campus football home of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, located in Athens, Georgia. The stadium opened on October 12, 1929, built at a cost of $360,000, and has grown from an initial 30,000-seat bowl into one of college
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/ June 15, 2026
Hilltop Park — officially named American League Park — was a wooden baseball stadium that stood in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, occupying the block bounded by Broadway, 165th Street, and 168th Street. Built in roughly six weeks at a cost of around $75,000
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/ June 15, 2026
Exposition Park stood along the banks of the Allegheny River on Pittsburgh’s North Side — then the independent city of Allegheny — and served as the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates for nearly two decades. Built in 1890 and seating around 16,000 fans, the covered
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/ June 15, 2026
League Park stood at the northeast corner of East 66th Street and Lexington Avenue in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood as the city’s first major-league baseball home. Originally built as a 9,000-seat wooden structure in 1891, it was completely rebuilt in concrete and steel in 1910, expanding
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/ June 15, 2026
PNC Park opened on April 9, 2001, as the fifth home of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the franchise’s long history. Situated along the Allegheny River on Pittsburgh’s North Shore at 115 Federal Street, the $216 million ballpark was designed in a retro-classic style by Populous
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/ June 15, 2026
Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened on April 6, 1992, as the new home of the Baltimore Orioles, and immediately rewrote the rulebook for professional stadium design. Built at a cost of approximately $110 million, it was the first of the modern “retro” ballparks —
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/ June 15, 2026
Oracle Park, situated at 24 Willie Mays Plaza in San Francisco’s South Beach neighborhood, has served as the home of the San Francisco Giants since it opened on March 31, 2000. Built at a cost of $357 million entirely with private funds — the first
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/ June 15, 2026
🏛 Historic Stadium Cleveland Arena stood at 3717 Euclid Avenue for four decades as one of the Midwest’s most versatile indoor venues. Built in 1937 by sports promoter Albert C. Sutphin for a reported $1.5 million, the arena opened on November 10, 1937 with the
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/ June 15, 2026
Rice Stadium, on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas, opened on September 30, 1950 with 70,000 seats — making it the South’s most architecturally forward-thinking football venue of its era. Its current seating capacity is approximately 47,000, and a $120 million Gateway Project
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/ June 15, 2026
🏛 Historic Stadium War Memorial Stadium, affectionately nicknamed ‘The Rockpile,’ stood on Buffalo’s East Side at 285 Dodge Street for more than five decades. Constructed as a Works Progress Administration project during the Great Depression, it opened on October 16, 1937—then called Roesch Memorial Stadium—at
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/ June 15, 2026
🏛 Historic Stadium Tulane Stadium stood on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, as one of the largest and most storied football venues in the American South. Opening on October 23, 1926, with a Tulane–Auburn matchup, the concrete-and-brick arena was designed by
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