Retractable Roof Baseball Stadiums

560 foot span track to track just short of two football fields in length or roughly 5 27 acres.

Retractable roof baseball stadiums.

Three panels elevated over the playing field and ballpark canopy. This can be opened at up to 2 3 66 of the full size of the roof. Chase field phoenix arizona arizona diamondbacks. Mlb retractable roof ballparks.

Only domed and retractable roof stadiums are included i e. One system that consist of 2 parts one fixed and one retractable which allows you to open the roof at up to 50 of it s full size. One panel is fixed and the other three move. Skydome toronto the home of the blue jays of major league baseball mlb was opened in 1989 and began the era of retractable roof stadiums.

Safeco field built 1999. It also holds approximately twice the amount of seating as tropicana field but. Minute maid park houston texas houston astros. Skydome rogers centre toronto 500 million the home of the blue jays of major league baseball mlb was opened in 1989 and began the era of retractable roof stadiums.

It takes roughly 13 15 minutes to go from the fully closed to the fully open position. The roof has for large steel panels. The other option is a system made of 3 parts with one fixed and 2 movable parts. Wembley stadium in london which seats 90 000 spectators is not included as the roof can only be partially closed.

Miller park built 2001. Rogers centre built 1989. The retractable roof stadiums is available in two options. T mobile park seattle washington seattle mariners safeco field originally rogers centre toronto canada toronto blue jays.

Minute maid park built 2000. Chase field built 1998. Stadiums that cover both spectators and playing field. Also check out why chase.

Roof panels can be operated independently to produce micro shading effects. While other stadiums had previously been built with removable tops a la montreal s olympic stadium the skydome was the first to have a fully retractable roof.