Wishing all a very happy and prosperous 2016. No matter if your team wins or loses, enjoy the games during the year and keep reading about them as well.
Title/Author:
“Ballparks: Yesterday
& Today” by Phil Trexler and Marty Strasen
Tags:
Baseball, professional,
stadium
Publish date:
April 1, 2015 (second
edition – originally published 2011)
Length:
160 pages
Rating:
4 of 5 stars (very
good)
Review:
Every baseball fan has
special memories at a favorite ballpark. Whether it was enjoying a Fenway Frank
with Dad at a Red Sox game, admiring the ivy that covers the outfield wall at
Wrigley Field or watching a baseball disappear in the upper deck at Tiger
Stadium, the stadium holds as much nostalgia as the game itself for many.
That makes this book
that contains pictures and stories of over 65 ballparks very special. No matter
the era or how long the stadium was used for a Major League baseball team, it
is included in the collection of ballparks that this book encompasses. Each
chapter covers an era of ballparks: The Early Ballparks (1870-1900), the Golden
Age (1901-1932), Early Expansion (1933-1966), The Modern Age (1966-1988) and
the Second Golden Age (1989-present).
Interesting facts are
included in the short story of most of the parks and pictures of not only the
parks themselves but also artifacts such as pennants, uniforms (both players
and employees), and ticket stubs. For example, my favorite of these was one of
a $1.50 grandstand seat for game 5 of the 1917 World Series between the White
Sox and Giants.
There are anecdotes
about the “cookie cutter” parks of the 1970’s, the new age parks that have been
popular the last 25 years and the wooden parks of yesteryear. It is a book that is to picked up and looked
at time and time again instead of being read like a story. That is because
there are many stories for baseball fans to enjoy about each park.
This latest edition
was updated to include the two newest parks: Target Field in Minneapolis and
Marlins Park in Miami. No matter the age of the stadium, any baseball fan will
be able to find his or her favorite one in this book and capture the wonderful
memories that one can have only at a ball game.
It is a coffee table book highly recommended for all baseball fans.
Book Format Read
Hardcover
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