Buck Showalter finds himself lucky enough to be managing in the major leagues for the Baltimore Orioles, who happen to be fortunate to play at Camden Yards. If objective fans aren't declaring their favorite ballpark to be one of the dinosaur twins, Wrigley Field or Fenway Park, they're probably calling out Oriole Park as the best in the league. Some say AT&T in San Francisco or PNC in Pittsburgh, and major leaguers polled have picked Safeco in Seattle before. But Camden Yards, if we had to send a ballpark to an intergalactic contest on which the freedom of our planet stood, would probably be our best bet to win. Showalter is using his advantageous position to pronounce judgment on all of the league's newer ballparks, saying that some have done a better job than others at following Camden Yards' lead since it opened 20 years ago . And for Showalter, Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. — which happens to be the closest park to Camden's hood on the Baltimore inner harbor — does not pass muster.