Ballpark
Baseball in the American City
by Paul Goldberger
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Filmmaking, Architecture, and Sports.
An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and everchanging ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prizewinning architectural critic.From the earliest corrals of the mid1800s (Union Grounds in Brooklyn was a "saloon in the open air"), to the ...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Filmmaking, Architecture, and Sports.
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“If you love baseball and ballparks like me, check out @paulgoldberger's new book "Baseball in the American City" from @penguinrandom:”
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