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cannot get on your website what happened to it -- 2007-06-24

i need to know if you have a different web address i tried and tried www.railcatsbaseball.com and nothing will come up keeps saying error. please help would like to buy tickets for me and my husband and I & our 4 kids to come to the park. thank you so much Hope to be there soon!!

gilberts

hot dogs h -- 2003-11-02

Your hot dogs have a first name It's B-L-A-N-D.. Your hot dogs have a second name It's also B-L-A-N-D.

Please serve flavorful hot dogs this next season. This is my only complaint about an otherwise great facility. Thanks. Mary

Mary Boyer

Excellent Promotions -- 2003-09-04

The promotions in the second half of the season seemed to be much better than the first half promotions--except for the GREAT appearance of the national bikini team (which was in the first half of the season). What IS a national bikini team by the way? The second half promotions, including glove day, bat day, and helmet day seemed to ignite an increase in attendance at U.S. Steel Yard.

Ken Parr

enjoyable evening -- 2003-08-19

recently attended my second game this season. again the employees are friendly. the between innings entertainment is amuzing. we plan on seeing alot more games next season. the only downside was the slow but friendly service at bennigans.my 3 teenage children really love to go to the games. even the winnipeg team was freindly. we now have every railcats autograph. thanks for the great time.

bryan wilson

Great park, great people -- 2003-08-05

First off, the park is BEAUTIFUL and the people that work there were great - so, I'm not sure what the guy who posted the negative post was talking about.

I was there for opening day, as well as about 6 other games this year so far, and it's great fun. I've actually started going to more minor league games because they are fun and cheap.

Go to Gary, enjoy the SAFE park and surroundings and stop being so uptight. All races, black white and hispanic, etc, are having fun at the old ballyard (great name too, US STEEL YARD..hee hee..LOVE IT!).

8/5/03

Chicago guy visits Gary Railcats stadium

Mixed bag -- 2003-05-27

The good: The game went 11 innings, with a final score of 8-4, after being tied 3-3 for most of the afternoon. The ballpark is nice, well laid-out, typical of most of the newer minor league parks. The view of the tollway and the Southshore line just outside the outfield fence is kind of neat. The military color guard, and the Lima Lima flight team were very nice.

The bad: The PA announcer repeatedly announced the wrong batter, and often waited till the second batter had come up in the inning before noticing that the defensive team had changed pitchers. It's Opening Day (after a YEAR on the road), the game is in extra innings, and all of the concession stands closed midway through the 9th inning. There's an occasional stench of methane coming from the nearby steel mills, but the stiff lake breeze takes care of that.

The ugly: Parking was horrific (but free). The parking attendants seem to have been culled from neighborhood stoops, and were quite adroit at cramming 35 cars into space that could easily have accommodated 100. The neighborhood is kind of scary. There were only two turnstiles at the main entrance to the park, and the people running them didn't seem to know how the scanners for the barcodes on the ticket worked. The gift shop was jammed with people waiting in line for the two cash registers. The folks in the shop did apologize for not having very many of the opening day shirts (they were "surprised by the demand" after a year on the road!). A large number of the 7000+ saw the game as an excuse to get drunk and stupid, confirming an Illinoisian's worst stereotypes about Hoosiers. Oh, and is it too much to ask, on Opening Day, which just happens to be MEMORIAL DAY, to have a singer that actually knows the words when he decides to "honor America" by butchering the national anthem?

Dan Doherty

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