Major League Baseball stadiums are big, clumsy, awkward, ridiculous places to hold a concert.
Since most parks have no roof, the acoustics can be bad, and since the playing field is so long and flat, there are certainly some dead areas on “the floor” one would rather not be. And if it’s still baseball season, as it is now, some teams choose to cover the infield, preventing fans from trampling across the all-important manicured grass.
And yet, if a band or an artist has reached the level of popularity where arenas simply cannot contain all the love that city has for it, and if the football stadium is way too large, the ballpark it is.
It all started with those pesky Beatles. When the Brits invaded with their first North American Tour in 1964 they booked reasonably-sized venues to make sure they could sell out their shows on their debut full tour around the colonies.
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