Would anyone know if the old Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston had a wooden home run fence or a rope "fence" when the Red Sox played there, particularly...
... Would anyone know if the old Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston had a wooden home run fence or a rope "fence" when the Red Sox played there, particularly...
Wow. Thank you for the excerpt from your forthcoming book and for all the great information, Ron. I'm looking forward to your book and can assure you I'll be...
Steve, The second floor of the Baseball Tavern on Boylston St, in the "McGreevey Room", also has a lot of pictures from that time period. -Paul ... ...
Paul, Alas, I live down here in Alabama. Although I resided near Boston for a short time and was in the area last year, I don't know when I will get back up...
Ballpark Preservationists Take Note!~ From: SABR Member Richard Hansen mailto:rhansen505@... {-- Click here to reply. ... Great news from our friends at...
Time for ballpark preservationists to step up to the plate.. http://tinyurl.com/5snwwg (New York Times, registration req'd) Tiger Stadium Faces Partial...
Regarding the Tiger Stadium preservation campaign, why is their Web site still "under construction"? http://www.oldtigerstadiumconservancy.org/ Is there some...
... The bonds for it were scheduled to be sold in 2008 or 2009... I don't know if that's still on target or not. The city has no money. House prices are...
Stew Thornley has written new articles on the two ballparks used by the Minnesota Twins (so far). You can read them here, along with the rest of our (slowly)...
Stew Thornley has completed three new "biographies" of ballparks, all located in the Twin Cities. Nicollet Park (Minneapolis) Lexington Park (St. Paul) Midway...
If you could please spread the word about my new book (below) to other chapter members, I'd appreciate it. I'm in the Smoky Joe Wood chapter in Connecticut....
Hello to everyone involved with the SABR Ballparks committee! Just wanted to send a quick hello to introduce myself and my son Antonio Del Sesto. I was a SABR...
http://tinyurl.com/6prwnh http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toby-barlow/saving-a-real-field-of-dr_b_110540 .html Saving a Real Field of Dreams Posted July 2, 2008...
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6375719 Former Cubs' ballpark dedicated over weekendSunday, September 07, 2008 | 8:47 AM A new plaque...
The Biography Project has recently published articles, all written by Bob Bailey, on the three ballparks used by Louisville in its major league heyday:...
The following is an abridged extract from my forthcoming book (Ballparks of the Deadball Era by McFarland coming out Fall/Winter 2008). All of the information...
I wish to make the Ballparks List membership aware of the availability of a new research-oriented book about ballparks. This book, of which I am the author,...
It took me a couple of years to get around to this, but I have finally organized all my thoughts and the available evidence on the age of that brick wall along...
Hello, Would anyone know the location of the bullpens in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium during the mid to late 1960s? I know that by the time of Aaron's #715...
Andrew, I'm basing a lot of my assumption about the 1974 bullpen location on Tom House's catch of Hank Aaron's # 715 in the Braves' bullpen. Here's a link to...
SABR's Baseball Biography Project has recently posted four new articles on old ballparks in St. Louis. Red Stockings Park, by Joan M. Thomas Union Base Ball...
Does anyone know the status of paperofrecord.com? Apparently it was bought by google. Does anyone know if we can still get free access to the sporting news...
Around Dec 2nd, there was an article that said www.paperofrecord.com would be around for about 1 month more, then would cease to exist. I assumed it would...
It's not looking good. Here's an email reply excerpt from Bob Huggins, founder of paperofrecord.com: Thanks for your note. It's been re-directed to Google as...
*Cardinals to build youth ballpark as All-Star Game souvenir* BY Derrick Goold ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 04/23/2009 St. Louis — As a lasting reminder of...
Trends in ML Ballpark Capacity The box scores in the Lois Angeles Times provide not only data on the paid attendance (actually the number of tickets sold) but...
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Does anyone know what the fence heights are at the two new NY ballparks? I have read that the OF dimensions at New Yankee Stadium are identical to the ...