From the rear cover
Philadelphia's baseball history goes beyond Shibe Park. Philadelphia's Old Ballparks is both a documentary and an oral history, providing colorful descriptions of all the old professional parks and the many teams that played in them. Baker Bowl, with its right field wall so close to home plate, for instance, prompted sports writer Red Smith to quip, "It might be exaggerating to say the outfield wall casts a shadow across the infield. But if the right fielder had eaten onions at lunch, the second baseman knew it". Shibe Park's idiosyncrasies are also well-documented, as are the others. The recollections of dozens of people: players, owners, vendors, ushers, groundskeepers, and fans have been called upon in recreating the world that was held within those walls.
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- Title Philadelphia's Old Ballparks C
- Author Rich Westcott
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Temple University Press, Philadelphia
- Date 1996-06
- ISBN 9781566394543 / 1566394546
- Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 10.22 x 7.13 x 0.84 in (25.96 x 18.11 x 2.13 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
- Library of Congress subjects Baseball fields - Pennsylvania -, Stadiums - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96000485
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.357
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