Blue Skies, Green Fields A Celebration Of 50 Major League Baseball Stadiums

Baseball is about experiencing the ballpark as much as the ball game. This book recaptures that experience, no matter which stadium was your first. There's a chapter on all 30 of the stad. in 2001, plus 20 obsolete ballparks incl. Ebbets Field, old Comiskey Park, Polo Grounds, & Connie Mack Stad. -- incl. Seattle's Kingdome & Cleveland's Mun. Stad. Each stadium is represented by beautiful color photos, fascinating narrative on the history & attributes of the ballpark, & facts & figures -- dimensions, seating capacities, opening dates, largest crowds, renovation costs, etc. Also includes answers to the question, What was it like the first time you saw a major-league stadium?Ó There are over 300 such answers here, for every stadium, from icons of the game.Rosen, Ira is the author of 'Blue Skies, Green Fields A Celebration Of 50 Major League Baseball Stadiums', published 2004 under ISBN 9780756779245 and ISBN 0756779243.