Location: Toronto

Toronto Capacity: 50,516

50,516 Opened: 1989

1989 Surface: Field turf

Field turf Roof: Retractable

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For a time in the early 1990s, when he was among the best players in baseball, Blue Jays second baseman Roberto Alomar lived in the hotel attached to the stadium then known as SkyDome, so that he could walk to work through corridors that connected the structures and, if the retractable roof was closed, never see the sky. If you visit, try to do a little better – walk around the city, hope for a nice night and an open roof, and get up on your feet for the quirky, decidedly Canadian seventh-inning stretch song, “OK Blue Jays.”

— Dave Sheinin

A bite to eat nearby: Canadians prefer the terms “cultural mosaic” to “melting pot,” and while in Toronto, you’ll notice a variety of influences. But if we may be generic for a moment, 360, the restaurant at the top of the CN Tower, makes a full revolution in about the time it takes to finish your meal.

While you’re at the park: The buffalo cauliflower poutine is delicious and you don’t want to miss the singing during the seventh-inning stretch.

While you’re in town: If you’re going to see what CN Tower looks like from inside Rogers Centre, you might as well look at Rogers Centre from CN Tower. It’s almost 50 bucks to see it from the tippy top, and much more if you’re crazy enough to try to EdgeWalk: strap yourself into a harness to walk around a five-foot ledge 116 stories up. But the view is harder to beat than the 1992 Jays.

Player insight: “It’s definitely weird. When I was there, it was all carpet except for the five dirt patches. But they tried to figure it out year-to-year. Sometimes it was fast, sometimes it was obnoxiously slow. You couldn’t even hit a groundball to the wall. Sometimes it played to our advantage at home – bloopers bounced over fielders’ heads, turned into triples. It was just carpet, then cement. The Rogers family is a business-oriented group, so every road trip, the field is gone for concerts. It was a lot of seams, just square patches. There were some guys who got some black eyes from bad hops.” — Nationals first baseman Adam Lind

The experts' rankings:

27th

Thomas Boswell: 28th | Chelsea Janes: 26th | Adam Kilgore: 20th | Lacy Lusk: 22nd | Dave Sheinin: 23rd