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The Ballpark Book
Baseball fans don't just remember great players and plays, they remember the great places that served as stages for those people and circumstances. Those great places — those stadiums, those ballparks, those fields — hold unique smells and sounds, unique sights and feels, unique experiences for each and every fan.
Re-creating those unique features, re-igniting those feelings and sensory experiences is what's behind The Ballpark Book. We want to take you to Fenway and Wrigley and Camden Yards. We want to take you to Ebbets and Shibe and Griffith and Old Comiskey and Forbes. |
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"If you're a fan of baseball, if you're a fan of major league ballparks, if you're a fan who - like me - is kicking himself for not getting to a game at Tiger Stadium before it closed, if you're a fan who wishes he could have seen a game in Ebbets Field or Crosley Field, this book is done for you." - Steve Meyerhoff
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The year 1999 marked the end of four national baseball treasures - Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Houston's Astrodome, 3 Com Park (aka Candlestick Park) in San Francisco and Seattle's Kingdome (maybe not as treasured as the other three but, yes, a treasure nonetheless) - The Sporting News relives the experience, relives the great moments of forty-six past and present baseball institutions, from Fenway Park to Jacobs Field.
You'll find three-hundred four pages of beautiful color photographs, stadium panoramas and detail shots, and artistic illustrations of those ballparks with the great moments in their histories.
As the ballparks in Milwaukee and Pittsburgh enter their final seasons, it's a book that remembers the great places where the greatest game on earth has been played.
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| Recent Reader Reviews |
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 The visuals in this book are extremely rich and really reflect the nostalgia of America's favorite past time! A must for every baseball purist.
This book captures it all for baseball purists. Lots of photos and text accounts of virtually every major league ballpark that has ever existed. I highly recommend this book for all of those of cherish the likes of Wrigley Field, Old Comiskey Park, and Ebbets Field.
 For the fan who is just beginning to appreciate all of the ballparks in major league history, this is the volume for you. If you're a purist who is familiar with the "older" still-present or long-gone parks, you might have wanted (or expected) a little bit more material (pictures, etc.) than what was presented. Being from Michigan, I grew up at Tiger Stadium (Detroit), was fortunate enough to visit old Comiskey, Wrigley Field, Crosley Field and even old Yankee Stadium before the '74-'75 refurbishment. And our visit to Camden Yards during its' first year gave me hope for a return to the "traditional" ballparks of the early part of the 1900's. Those of you like myself looking for material from yesterday, please don't be too disappointed; for this volume is very comprehensive in covering all of the ballparks of yesterday and today regardless of era. A "must add to the collection" for all ball park eficionados in particular, if not baseball fans in gereral.
I ordered this book after seeing it advertised on one of those internet banner ads- something I've never done before- so I was pleasantly surprised at the quality. The thematic organization, great text and anectdotes, along with the excellence of the photographs (up to Life magazine standards) make it a must-have for any baseball fan. I was pleased with the obvious attention to detail that went into the making of this book, as it's evident that this project was a labor of love for someone. There were two other baseball fans in my office who were clamoring over "The Ballpark Book", and I wouldn't be surprised if they order a copy themselves. The coffee-table book quality of presentation makes it an excellent gift, too.
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