All season long, the Pirates — as well as they’ve been playing — have had the hardest time gaining on the first-place St. Louis Cardinals.
But the ballpark that the Pirates call home is second to none.
That accolade, which the fans and the team have long claimed, was confirmed again Monday by 91,000 voters responding to a survey conducted by Ballpark Digest, a Madison, Wis.-based website that has been covering ballparks and the business of baseball for 11 years.
“We had done our own ranking going into this, and we had PNC Park seeded third behind AT&T Park [in San Francisco] and Fenway Park [in Boston],” said Kevin Reichard, founder and publisher of Ballpark Digest, which serves more than 200,000 readers a month.