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One of amazon.com's top 50 sports books of 2000.

USA Today Magazine: "There's just something about a ballpark that brings out the romantic in every baseball fan. ... You'll do the same when you read this book."

Book Description

Their names are magic, emotional triggers that provoke images of concave walls, 33-foot screens, ground-level scoreboards, irregular contours and fences that zig, zag, jut and jag through our memory, not to mention the pages of baseball history. Ebbets Field had its Bums, Tiger Stadium had its overhang, the Polo Grounds had its clubhouse, Crosley Field had its incline and Fenway Park still has a Green Monster that gobbles up line drives ands swats them away like flies.

A ballpark, by any name or configuration, is many things, but above all else it's personal. It's about relationships, with teams and the communities they serve, and memories, of special places at special times.

Join with The Sporting News on a soul-stirring journey that will reveal the sights and sounds, the secrets and charming nuances of 46 former and current major league ballparks. Take a visual, sentimental journey through the fields of dreams that have shaped our baseball memories, fulfilled and destroyed our baseball fantasies and given us an unbreakable bond with our national pastime. All have been special places for countless generations of fans.


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