Fields of Dreams

[il ragno]

All gone but for Fenway.


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Marilyn Monroe at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn

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Shibe Park, Philadelphia

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Forbes Field, Pittsburgh

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Navin Field (later Briggs Stadium, still later Tiger Stadium), Detroit

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Crosley Field, Cincinnati

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[il ragno]

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Fire at Fenway Park, 1933, Boston

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Fenway opens in 1912

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Sportsman's Park, St Louis

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Municipal Stadium, Cleveland (Cy Young in silhouette)


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Polo Grounds, New York City


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Comiskey Park, Chicago



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[il ragno]

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Griffith Stadium, Washington (DiMaggio at bat)

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Wrigley Field, Chicago


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Forbes Field, Pittsburgh


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Memorial Stadium, Baltimore

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Yankee Stadium, the Bronx (The Babe at bat)


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Ebbets Field, Brooklyn

[Burrhus]

In spite of a few modifications, Wrigley Field in Chicago is still basically the same as it was 55 years ago when I became a (long-suffering) Cubs fan. Still a great place to watch a ballgame but the beer-swilling yuppies have priced us oldsters out of the ticket market.

Unless they start hitting soon, this will not be the year to break the 100 streak of failure.

Milton Bradley indeed. Uppity nigger can't bat .200 so far.

[Keystone]

Forbes was a loverly ballpark. Most times I was in the left field bleachers.

[Count Eustace II]

Baseball, like everything else, has been Jewed down to the lowest common denominator.

The reason for the demolition of all the classic parks: to make more money.

[Keystone]

Baseball, like everything else, has been Jewed down to the lowest common denominator.

The reason for the demolition of all the classic parks: to make more money.
Baseball has been about making money since the 1870's. Many of those parks needed to be torn down. It's sad, but true. If the Giants were still in NY, I doubt they'd still be playing at the Polo Grounds.

[Keystone]

In spite of a few modifications, Wrigley Field in Chicago is still basically the same as it was 55 years ago when I became a (long-suffering) Cubs fan. Still a great place to watch a ballgame but the beer-swilling yuppies have priced us oldsters out of the ticket market.

Unless they start hitting soon, this will not be the year to break the 100 streak of failure.

Milton Bradley indeed. Uppity nigger can't bat .200 so far.
You couldn't win with uppity niggers like Ernie Banks, Billy Williams or Fergie Jenkins, either.
heh.

[Jaybird]

Who would've ever guessed that the whiniest poster on the Internet, Burrhus, was a Flubs Fan?

My late grandpa used to take me on trips around the country to the still standing parks. I went to Old Comiskey that last year it was open (it also happened to be at the same time the International Shriner's Convention took place in Chicago and it was hopping with creepy old fogies in fezzes), Memorial Stadium, and Tiger Stadium (was there when Steve Lyons dropped trou). Never made it to Fenway, Wrigley, or the defunct Yankee Stadium. I should say that we invariably sat behind a giant steel beam at each of those parks and had to share one bathroom per level with 10,000 other drunken fans. Still, I would take that over the rocket propelled t-shirts and non-stop batter's intro music we're forced to suffer through today.

[Jaybird]

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Ebbets Field, Brooklyn

A billboard for of all things ties right there in centerfield. Christ how far the mighty have fallen.

[Thorvald Eriksson]

This was the era before corporate owned stadiums and when 25 years wasn't considered reason for a new stadium.

Field of Dreams...I'm glad this was about something of substance, and not that baseball theme movie with the not so subtle Marxist subplot; about a loud feminist that raises kikey hell in a small town. I am glad this wasn't about this bullshit.:)

[Count Eustace II]

Baseball has been about making money since the 1870's. Many of those parks needed to be torn down. It's sad, but true. If the Giants were still in NY, I doubt they'd still be playing at the Polo Grounds.

Yes, it is a business but Yankee and Shea stadiums didn't need to be ripped down. Nothing wrong with those stadiums. The only reason they were abolished, like most other stadiums around MLB, is because owners wanted to install more corporate boxes and higher priced box seats so they can pay bums like A-Rod and Manny $25 million dollars a year.

[WillieBrennan]

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As the name implied, Memorial Stadium in Baltimore was intended to be a memorial to Americans who died in all wars as well as a sports stadium.

If you can't make it out, the last line on the facade reads "Time will not dim the glory of their deeds".

Time may not dim the glory of their deeds but greed sure as hell will.

As with everything in modern Jew dominated America, money means everything. Tradition and honor mean nothing.

I've never set foot in Camden Yards or Ravens Stadium and I don't intend to in the future.