Miami Baseball Stadium Roof

The marlins new 550 million baseball stadium won t open until 2012 but cnnmoney got a sneak peek of how the retractable roof will work.

Miami baseball stadium roof.

The mlb ballpark app is your mobile companion when visiting your favorite major league baseball ballparks. The official mlb ballpark application perfectly complements and personalizes your trip with digital ticketing functionality mobile check in special offers rewards and exclusive content. It opened in 1949 and held 13 500 people. The stadium was home to the baltimore orioles for many years.

Marlins stadium the 6th retractable roof ballparks built was the outgrowth ofa growing competition between major league sports owners for high qualitybranded venues. The game ball was delivered by muhammed ali and the anthem was sung by. Composed of nearly 8 300 tons of high strength steel the span of each retractable roof panel from rail to rail is approximately 530 feet at each lower panel and 566 feet at the upper panel. Baseball s huge new rolling roof in miami youtube.

With a seating capacity of 37 442 it is the third smallest stadium in major league baseball by official capacity and the smallest by actual capacity. The roof design is interesting as it sits askew to the roof track to create a unique appearance and to let more sunshine in the stadium to grow the field. From the inception of the floridamarlins the team played all of its home games at sun life stadium in miamigardens. The opening created by the long span of the 45 foot deep upper panel trusses is wider than any nfl retractable roof stadium.

Published on apr 5 2012 on opening night april 4 2012 the miami marlins opened up marlins park officially to the public. Miami stadium later officially known as bobby maduro miami stadium was a baseball stadium in miami florida it was primarily used for baseball and was the home field of the miami marlins minor league baseball team as well as other minor league teams. Built primarily for football in the fall the roughly 75 000 capacity stadium has hosted some of the most exciting games in professional and collegiate sports. The florida marlins major league baseball team has a brand new 37 000 seat stadium that features a 6814 ton moveable roof with rolling segments.

The building is the sixth mlb stadium to have a retractable roof. In this 1998 file photo warren jones and brenda lipford clean up the front of the miami baseball stadium aka bobby maduro stadium. When it was first constructed in 1987 joe robbie stadium as it was then called had no roof.