Baseball in the American City: Baseball, Ballparks, and the American City by Pau

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Baseball in the American City by Paul Goldberger Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball- told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball- told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union Grounds in Brooklyn was a saloon in the open air ), to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit s Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati s Palace of the Fans), to the stadiums we fill today, Paul Goldberger makes clear the inextricable bond between the American city and America s favorite pastime. In the changing locations and architecture of our ballparks, Goldberger reveals the manifestations of a changing society- the earliest ballparks evoked the Victorian age in their accommodations--bleachers for the riffraff, grandstands for the middle-class; the concrete donuts of the 1950s and 60s made plain television s grip on the public s attention; and more recent ballparks, like Baltimore s Camden Yards, signal a new way forward for stadium design and for baseball s role in urban development. Throughout, Goldberger shows us the way in which baseball

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780307701541
• Condition: Fine

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