The minor league baseball season may be over for 2019, but that doesn't mean baseball-minded home shoppers need to balk. The baseballs allegedly were juiced this season, leading to a record number of home runs. Next season there are likely to be even more. SmartAsset set out to find the best cities for minor league baseball in plenty of time for next season. Here's what it found:
These games are less expensive and less crowded than the average Major League game, so they are more accessible to the average family. With that in mind, SmartAsset analyzed the data for the sixth consecutive year to find the best minor league baseball towns in America.
To find the best towns for minor league baseball, SmartAsset analyzed nine different factors. We used those metrics to come up with two scores – one related to the game-day experience and the other related to the quality of life in the city. We used these two scores to create our final rankings. For details on data sources and how we put it all together, check out the Data and Methodology section below.
This is SmartAsset’s sixth annual study of the best minor league baseball towns. Check out the 2018 version here.
Key Findings
- A new champion. Nashville had been the top city in this study for two years running, but this year, Music City isn’t even in the top 25. Round Rock, Texas, last year’s No. 2 city, ascended to the top of the rankings this year.
- Texas hits it out of the park. Five of the top 10 cities in this ranking come from the Lone Star State.
