Published: August 1, 1990

Fields Of Dreams

He also brought along a tape recorder to record his impressions and, like a good teacher, created a grading sheet for the parks. The sheet had eight categories--including food, upkeep, scoreboard, and atmosphere--to help Wood come up with an overall grade, from A to D, for each stadium. (Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and Royals Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., got the only A's. Houston's Astrodome and Montreal's Exhibition Stadium were at the bottom of the class with D pluses. Best ballpark food was a four-way tie among Chicago's Comiskey Park, Milwaukee's County Stadium, Royals Stadium,...