OLD BASEBALL STADIUMS

baseball stadiums

(Baseball stadium) A baseball park, also known as a baseball stadium, ball park, or ballpark is the venue where baseball is played. It consists of the playing field and the surrounding spectator seating.

old baseball stadiums – Philadelphia's Old

Philadelphia's Old Ballparks (Baseball In America)

Philadelphia’s rich baseball heritage as seen through its baseball parks is vividly brought to life in this colorful and anecdotal book. Experienced sportswriter Rich Westcott once again dives into a labor of love, taking us back in time to an era when Philadelphia’s ballparks were as famous and as much a part of the game as the teams that took the field. Philadelphia’s baseball history goes beyond Shibe Park. “Philadelphia’s Old Ballparks” is both a documentary and an oral history, providing detailed descriptions of all of the old professional parks and the many teams that played in them, including Baker Bowl, with its right field wall so close to home plate, it prompted sportswriter Red Smith to quip, ‘it might be exaggerating to say the outfield wall casts a shadow across the infield. But if the right fielder had eaten onions at lunch, the second baseman knew it’. Shibe Park is also well-documented with its idiosyncracies, as are the others. The recollections of dozens of people players, owners, vendors, ushers, grounds keepers, and fans combine to recreate the world that was held within those walls. Author note: Rich Westcott has served as a writer and editor on the staffs of a variety of newspapers and magazines in the Philadelphia and Baltimore areas during his 35 years in publishing. He is the publisher and editor of “Phillies Report”. He is the author of six books, including “The New Phillies Encyclopedia” (Temple), with Frank Bilovsky; “Phillies ’93, An Incredible Season (Temple)”; “Diamond Greats”; and “Masters of the Diamond”.

NY Yankees vs Seattle

May 17th, 1988 – Baseballs NY Yankees vs Seattle at the soon to be demolished Famous Yankee Stadium

The original Yankee Stadium is a stadium located in The Bronx in New York City, New York. It served as the home baseball park of Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees from 1923 through 2008. Located at East 161st Street and River Avenue, the stadium has a capacity of 57,545 and hosted 6,581 Yankees regular season home games during its 85-year history. It was also the former home of the New York Giants football team, as well as the host of twenty of boxing’s most famous fights and three Papal masses. The stadium’s nickname, "The House That Ruth Built" comes from the iconic Babe Ruth, the baseball superstar whose prime years coincided with the beginning of the Yankees’ winning history.

Yankee Stadium is one of the most famous sports venues in United States, having hosted a variety of events and many historic moments during its existence. Its primary occupants, the Yankees, have won far more World Series championships (26) than any other major league club and Yankee Stadium has hosted 37 World Series, far more than any other baseball stadium. The Stadium also hosted the major-league All-Star Game four times: 1939, 1960, 1977, and, as part of its curtain call, 2008.

In 2006, the Yankees began construction on a new $1.8 billion stadium in public parkland adjacent to the original Yankee Stadium. The Yankees are expecting to open their new home in 2009. Once the new stadium opens, most of the old stadium, including the above-ground structure, is to be demolished to become parkland.[1]

The first game at the stadium was held on April 18, 1923, with the Yankees beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1. The final game at the stadium was held on September 21, 2008, with the Yankees beating the Baltimore Orioles 7-3

Old Met Stadium Home Plate, 16 Oct 2008

The plaque indicating the old location of home plate, when Metropolitan Stadium was the Twins’ ballpark. Obviously when the Twins moved to the Metrodome, the old Met Stadium was eventually demolished in 1985, and the Mall of America would be eventually built, and opened in 1992.
This is located at the northwest portion of Nickelodeon Universe.
For all the times I’ve visited Mall of America, I’ve always forgotten about trying to find this plaque. Finally, on this last trip, I finally found the plaque.
Thursday afternoon 16 October 2008.

old baseball stadiums

A West Coast Yankee fan has never been to Yankee Stadium and 2008 is the final season. Join fan, Bill Kasal, as he makes a riotous cross-country trip to see his beloved Yankees play a game (or two) in the final season in Baseball’s Cathedral.

In this short story, the author makes an on-line purchase of a ticket to two games and a Stadium Tour, and then decides it would be a good idea to check flights and lodging possibilities. Carrying no luggage and a pocketful of underwear, he plans to go directly from the airport to the stadium, and then worry about his first-ever New York Subway ride to a hotel of whose location he is unsure.

A trip, which is supposed to be all about baseball, ends up including Greek mythology, an interview in the Hartford Courante, Pokemon and the most memorable car ride of his life.

A must read for any Yankees fan, New Yorker or any traveler! And ten dollars worth of laughs for less than a dollar!