Ballpark : baseball in the American city / Paul Goldberger.

"An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic. From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union Grounds...

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Main Author: Goldberger, Paul (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xiii, 364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Brooklyn beginnings -- Amusement versus virtue -- From wood to steel and stone -- The golden age -- Aspiring to monumentality -- Leaving the city -- Era of concrete doughnuts -- Camden Yards: baseball returns -- After Baltimore: looking back or looking forward? -- Lessons forgotten, lessons learned -- New York retro, Miami modern -- The ballpark as theme park. 
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