Author Commentary:
The culmination of five years work and 500 pages covering more than five dozen ballparks, it’s an honor to share cover space with Gary Gillette, Eric Enders, and Stu Shea on this book. Few things in baseball are expounded on as much as baseball stadiums and Big League Ballparks is the final word on the subject. The coffee table-sized book is elaborately illustrated, with every fact painstakingly checked to separate tall tales from reality.
The book includes stadiums from every era, from Shibe Park to Citizen’s Bank, from Forbes Field to PNC Park, and from Polo to Shea to Citi…plus more parks than you can shake a cowbell at. The book also includes a detailed section on the game’s early stadiums, now forgotten, that gave major league baseball its leg up in the sporting world, back when carriages took the priveleged to the ballgame and when the cranks crowded the field in roped-off regions for the big games. Where a club pro could have stood at home plate, taken out a mashee, and walloped a golf ball to center field…and still seen it remain in play. And they say Citi Field’s fences are too distant.
$30 + s/h