PeoplesBank Park

When I was in York last week, I took in a game at the PeoplesBank Park to see the York Revolution, an unaffiliated minor league baseball team take on the Sugar Land Skeeters.  The park was built in 2009 or thereabouts and is nestled in right between the river running through downtown and the railroad station.

I eschewed the "cheapest seat in the park," a so-called $10 "lawn seating" ticket out in the grass beyond the left field fence, for a $15 seat by third base under the shadow of the luxury boxes upstairs.  Combined with $3 for parking and a $2.50 hotdog (I brought my own water bottle in), it was a cheap outing to the ballpark.

After checking out my seat, I meandered around the park all game long and sat wherever I wanted.  It's a nice expansive ballpark, very underutilized as several food courts were shuttered, but it has a kids playground out by left field with a merry-go-round and its food offering are many and varied, from $11 hoagies to $5 jumbo dogs with funnel cakes, Italian ices, pizza, White Castle hamburgers and boardwalk fries in between.

The game was interesting, as minor league ballgames often are, with a 400 foot single smacked off the top of the tall wall in left field that caromed right back to the left fielder, many pitching changes, flamethrowers serving up 88 mph fastballs and best of all, the Revolution's costumed colonial mascot firing off a loud cannon in centerfield when a Rev player hit a homer run.  The decibel level inside the park, with its excellent speakers mounted everywhere, came to be annoying by the end of the game, with non-stop PA chatter, advertising ditties and between-innings breathlessly reported upon challenges on-field amongst randomly-selected spectators,  and I discovered that it was literally impossible to engage in a cell-phone conversation from anywhere inside the park.