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Product Description If you love baseball and the venerable stadiums its played in, you need this definitive history and guide to Major League ballparks of the past, present, and future. With a tear-out checklist to mark ballparks you’ve visited and those on your bucket list, Ballparks takes you inside the intriguing histories of every park in the Major Leagues, with hundreds of photos, stories, and stats about: Storied parks like Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, and Dodger Stadium Fan favorites AT&T Park, Camden Yards, PNC Park, Safeco Field, and so much more Forgotten treasures like Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis, and all five parks of the Detroit Tigers New stadiums like the Atlanta Braves’ SunTrust Park, the Minneapolis Twins’ Target Field, and New York’s Yankee Stadium and Citifield More than 40 other major league parks that tell the story of the national pastime through the lens of the fields the players call home No baseball fan’s collection is complete without this up-to-date tome. About the Author Eric Enders is a baseball historian and former researcher at the Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, New York. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, Variety, MLB's World Series program, Yankees Magazine, and many other publications. He has also been a reporter for the El Paso Herald-Post and an editor and proofreader for numerous publishers including Barnes & Noble and National Geographic. A native of El Paso, Texas, and a lifelong Dodger fan, Eric operates Triple E Productions, a baseball research and editing company. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Ballparks A Journey Through the Fields of the Past, Present, and Future By Eric Enders The Quarto GroupCopyright © 2018 Eric Enders All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-7858-3616-2 Contents Introduction: The Magic of the Ballpark, 6, Philadelphia, 8, New York, 24, Pittsburgh, 60, Washington, DC, 76, Boston, 86, Baltimore, 100, Montreal, 112, Toronto, 118, St. Louis, 124, Chicago, 140, Cleveland, 164, Cincinnati, 176, Detroit, 186, Milwaukee, 198, Kansas City, 204, Minneapolis, 214, Los Angeles, 222, Bay Area, 234, San Diego, 244, Seattle, 250, Denver, 256, Phoenix, 260, Houston, 264, Atlanta, 274, Arlington, 284, Tampa Bay, 292, Miami, 296, Afterword: Major League Stadiums Around the World, 300, Bibliography, 306, Index, 307, Photo Credits, 312, CHAPTER 1 PHILADELPHIA One of America's first cities, Philadelphia is also one of America's first baseball cities. In 1871, the Philadelphia Athletics won major league baseball's first pennant, which they proudly flew from a flagpole outside Jefferson Street Grounds, their small wooden ballpark. Opened in 1864 and renovated in 1871 and 1883, the grounds featured the major leagues' first swimming pool, which was situated behind the right field fence. The Philadelphia Phillies, meanwhile, were founded in 1883 and played at Recreation Park, which they left after three seasons because they were hitting too many of their valuable baseballs into the Corinthian Reservoir next door. They moved to Baker Bowl on Huntingdon Avenue, where they would play for the next fifty-two years. A renowned hitters' paradise, Baker Bowl was also used by the powerful Hilldale Club during its victory in the 1925 Negro League World Series. (Ordinarily the Hilldales played at their own 8,000-seat ballpark, Hilldale Field, which they built in 1910 in the suburb of Darby.) A new Philadelphia A's franchise was born in 1901, playing its games at Columbia Park in the Brewerytown neighborhood, where the smell of hops and yeast wafted through the air during games. The A's changed the course of baseball history in 1909 when they opened Shibe Park, the first steel and concrete stadium ever built. They played in that legendary facility until leaving town for Kansas City in 1955. The Phillies, longtime co-tenants with the A's at Shibe Park, continued to play there until 1970, when they
