An edition of Ballpark (2005)

Ballpark

the story of America's baseball fields

1st ed.
Ballpark
Lynn Curlee, Lynn Curlee
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An edition of Ballpark (2005)

Ballpark

the story of America's baseball fields

1st ed.

From the first ballpark converted from an ice rink in 1862 to the space-aged Houston Astrodome to the league's newest state-of-the-art stadiums, this book tells the history of baseball through its ballparks. As America changed so did its ballparks, and their various architectural forms helped shape the game we know today. 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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Language
English
Pages
41

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Ballpark: the story of America's baseball fields
2005, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [44]).

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New York, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
796.357/06/873
Library of Congress
GV879.5 .C87 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
41, [3] p. :
Number of pages
41

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24961272M
ISBN 10
0689867425
ISBN 13
9780689867422
LCCN
2003023144
OCLC/WorldCat
54079545

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