Ballpark: The Story of America's Baseball Fields
by Lynn Curlee
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Author: Lynn CurleeIllustrator: Lynn Curlee
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-04
ISBN: 1416953604
Number of pages: 48
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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Book Review: beautiful look at the great american baseball park
Summary: 5 Stars
So many baseball park where I enjoyed watching games in my youth are gone!
Ebbetts Field, The Polo Grounds, Memorial Stadium, County Stadium, Crosley Field, Forbes Field, Veterans Stadium, Connie Mack Stadium, the old Busch Stadium, the old Comiskey Park, Griffith Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Municipal Stadium, the Houston Astrodome,Candlestick Park and more recently Atlanta's Fulton County Coliseum, Metropolitian Stadium (Bloomington Minnesota),Three Rivers Stadium,and Riverfront Stadium. Admittedly some of the new parks are prettier and very modern. But most of these historic parks with their idiosychracies are very nostalgic with fond memories. Thompson's and Mays' catch in the Polo Grounds, Aaron's 715th in Fulton County Coliseum are a few of many. Sadly, most of these parks have been torn down. We have beautiful new ones that are hard to identify because their name changes almost every year. Pac Bell (now AT&T) Park in San Francisco, Miller Park in Milwaukee, Jacobs Field in Cleveland (soon to take on the name of a sponsor), Camden Yards in Baltimore, Comerica in Detroit, The Great America Park in Cincinnati, Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia, Royals Stadium, Coors Stadium in Denver, The Hubert Humphrey Dome in Minneapolis and others
Still standing from the past are Wrigley Field in Chicago, Boston's Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium. But next year my beloved Yankee Stadium will be replaced and soon after that Shea Stadium will be gone! We need books like this to provide the pictures and memories of the old and to alsosee the look of the future.
Summary of Ballpark: The Story of America's Baseball Fields
If you love baseball, chances are you love one particular ballpark. Boston fans wax poetic about Fenway Park. Cubs fans are adamant that Wrigley Field is the classic ballfield. Busch Stadium is a hit with folks from Missouri, and Yankee fans are passionate about the House That Ruth Built....Besides passionate fans, there's one other thing all ballparks -- from the Union Grounds in Brooklyn built in 1862 to the Baltimore Oriole's Camden Yards built in 1992 -- have in common: Each has its own vibrant and unique history.
In Ballpark, Sibert Honor Award winner Lynn Curlee explores both the histories and the cultural significances of America's most famous ballparks. Grand in scope and illustrations, and filled with nifty anecdotes about these "green cathedrals," Ballpark also explores the changing social climate that accompanied baseball's rise from a minor sport to the national pastime. This is a baseball book like no other.
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