Marlins Park facts for kids

Marlins Park on Opening Day 2012.

Marlins Park is a baseball park in the Miami, Florida neighborhood of Little Havana that is home to the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball. Before Marlins Park opened in 2012, the team, then known as the Florida Marlins, played home games at the venue now known as Hard Rock Stadium. Marlins Park is located on the former site of the Orange Bowl Stadium.

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The Marlins' former home at what was then Dolphin Stadium was primarily a football stadium, shown prepping for a Dolphins game with gridlines over the diamond in August 2007.
Architect's computer rendering of the final design plan of the parking garages and ballpark with the retractable roof open.
Marlins Park is an abstract, contemporary building which combines baseball with art and the essence of Miami.
Pastel, Miami-Deco-influenced wall tiles in 4 main parking garages connect the facility to its small-scaled, Little Havana environs
The colorful ballpark has artwork such as tiled walkways on the front plaza by kinetic-op artist Carlos Cruz-Diez
An LED-illuminated show on the super columns during night games, and a rubber membrane lining the roof to reduce heat-island effect are a couple of the parks demonstrations of technology and green efficiency.
Panorama of Marlins Park
The east side with the windows retracted
The Marlins $2.5 million home run sculpture. The right half of its base also formed part of "The Bermuda Triangle" quirk in the outfield fence between 2012 and 2016
The Budweiser Bar and The Clevelander in left field, to the left of the HR feature (not seen)
Marlins Park on the team's final workout day prior to Opening Night. The nationally televised game was filled with fanfare and people, but was also the only sellout produced by the stadium in 2012.
Hard Rock Stadium (current name) was home to the Florida Marlins since its inception into Major League Baseball in 1993 until 2011.
The back of the home run structure at Marlins Park
A side view of the home run structure at Marlins Park
One of the columns at Marlins Park that supports the roof when the roof is opened
Baseball in Motion by Dominic Pangborn
The home run structure in center field goes off after a home run.
The super-columns are all nearly complete, with one crossbeam already in place, which will support the retractable roof, February 6, 2010
The site on July 2, 2010. The interior bowl is being completed on the west side, from a view at the outfield
The site on November 6, 2010. The main center roof being constructed
February 15, 2011
Adjacent parking structure on February 15, 2011
The site two weeks before completion of the final roof panel on March 13, 2011
The site on August 13, 2011 as seen from the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836) traveling east
Construction on August 25, 2011