Does anybody know

[3Rfan]

when the home team switched to the 1st base dugout? From the time I was in Little League up to Legion ball everybody, including MLB, used the 3rd base dugout for the home team. I don't remember the that changed.

 

[wccards21]

It's only a few. STL being one of them.

Cubs are 3rd base at Wrigley

 

[Duck_walk]

Dude, in 1971 my dad 's friend had some buddies on the STL police force and I got to visit the Cards dugout prior to a game and met Lou, Jose Cruz, Torre, etc. The dugout was on the first base side.

There are no standards for what side the home dugout should be on. The home team gets to decide which side to place it on and it is usually for the convenience of the home team. An example of this is placing the home dugout on the opposite side of where the sun shines during day games.

 

[Duck_walk]

This is a few years old:

In both the National League and American League, more home team dugouts are on the first-base side (9 to 6 each). Even the two oldest parks still in use differ on this point: the Cubs sit on the third-base side at Wrigleywhile the Red Sox inhabit the first-base dugout at Fenway. Due to the ballpark's orientation, at Wrigley the third-base dugout faces away from the sun from noon onward, whereas the first base dugout faces sunlight in the late innings. At Fenway, the third-base dugout faces the sun for part of a day game, while the first-base dugout remains shaded