Pittsburgh New Park and Cigars

By Don Hopey. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Before a recent game at PNC Park, Neil Spada was waiting for his dad next to the muscular Honus Wagner bronze outside Gate A and talking about the classic design of the five-year old ball yard.

It gives the park an old feeling, like Forbes and Fenway, and reminds you it holds a history, baseball history," said the 18-year-old Mt. Lebanon resident. "But inside it provides the conveniences that people expect out of a ball park today. It's the best of both worlds.

On the 200 level there's luxury boxes and a wood-paneled, club-like setting where patrons can spend time shooting pool, eating fancy deserts, smoking cigars and sipping martinis in front of a plasma flat screen television without ever having to worry about inclement weather or spills caused by incoming foul balls.

...mixing the old with the new...

Green grass and history form baseball's new homes around the country

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