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TURNER FIELD
Atlanta, Ga.
Opened: 1997
Capacity: 50,096
Average Ticket Price: $17.51
Average Cost of Concessions and Souvenirs: $75.54
Pluses:
Plenty of parking spaces available at lots next to stadium, most of which cost $10 a car; local transit (MARTA) operates a shuttle bus from downtown Atlanta to the park.

Minuses:
Atlanta residents love their cars, which makes traffic an increasingly potent migraine.
Since 1997, Turner Field has been one of Atlanta's biggest attractions. It doesn't hurt that the Braves have won the NL East title every year since the ballpark was opened.
Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images
Scout's Alley in left field offers entertainment for kids and adults with batting cages and interactive exhibits that demonstrate how a pitch curves or how a ball reacts when hitting a bat's sweet spot; park has seating and special parking areas for disabled fans, and also offers audio amplification devices; generous complement of restrooms (32 women's, 30 men's); average number of concession stands (41), in addition to three restaurants/bars.
The fans are famously flaky, a spoiled byproduct of too much winning. The most riled they get is when they unleash the PC-horrific Tomahawk Chop. A huge new HD scoreboard in center is distracting, but, all in all, Turner Field is a pleasant scoop of vanilla: Nice and clean, if not particularly exciting. -- John Donovan  
There's no there around Turner Field, next to I-75, south of downtown. A KFC is about as highbrow as you'll get, and the only place to visit is the site of Hank Aaron's 715th home run -- in a parking lot. Stay downtown or in Buckhead until you're ready to go to the park. -- John Donovan  
2005 Record: 74-56 (all statistics through Aug. 29)
Players worth price of admission: Andruw Jones (.272 BA, 42 HR, 102 RBI), Chipper Jones (.301 BA, 13 HR, 50 RBI), Marcus Giles (.305 BA, 47 RBI, 14 SB), John Smoltz (13-6, 2.96 ERA).  
Much like the city that surrounds it, Turner Field is a pleasant enough experience, but it doesn't etch itself in your memory. Nice guys don't get the girl and nice parks don't get the fans, not in this town, which has made a habit of not selling out playoff games the last few seasons (an unpardonable sin that should be punished by making the Braves switch home parks with the Devil Rays for a season). All in all, a fun place to visit, but we can't find many compelling reasons to stick around.  

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