Ballpark: The Story of America's Baseball Fields

by Lynn Curlee

Book Overview

A vibrant visual history of America's most famous ballparks from award-winning author-illustrator Lynn Curlee--now with a new look

If you love baseball, chances are you love one particular ballpark. Boston fans wax poetic about Fenway Park, Cubs fans are adamant that Wrigley Field is the classic ballfield. Busch Stadium is a hit with folks from Missouri, and Yankee fans are passionate about the House That Ruth Built. Besides passionate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1665968869
• ISBN13: 9781665968867
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 48 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 11.0" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Nice book on stadiums but I have seen better

If you collect books on baseball stadiums you need to add this to your collection even though there are other stadium books out there MUCH better

beautiful look at the great american baseball park

So many baseball park where I enjoyed watching games in my youth are gone! Ebbetts Field, The Polo Grounds, Memorial Stadium, County Stadium, Crosley Field, Forbes Field, Veterans Stadium, Connie Mack Stadium, the old Busch Stadium, the old Comiskey Park, Griffith Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Municipal Stadium, the Houston Astrodome,Candlestick Park and more recently Atlanta's Fulton County Coliseum, Metropolitian Stadium (Bloomington Minnesota),Three Rivers Stadium,and Riverfront Stadium. Admittedly some of the new parks are prettier and very modern. But most of these historic parks with their idiosychracies are very nostalgic with fond memories. Thompson's and Mays' catch in the Polo Grounds, Aaron's 715th in Fulton County Coliseum are a few of many. Sadly, most of these parks have been torn down. We have beautiful new ones that are hard to identify because their name changes almost every year. Pac Bell (now AT & T) Park in San Francisco, Miller Park in Milwaukee, Jacobs Field in Cleveland (soon to take on the name of a sponsor), Camden Yards in Baltimore, Comerica in Detroit, The Great America Park in Cincinnati, Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia, Royals Stadium, Coors Stadium in Denver, The Hubert Humphrey Dome in Minneapolis and others Still standing from the past are Wrigley Field in Chicago, Boston's Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium. But next year my beloved Yankee Stadium will be replaced and soon after that Shea Stadium will be gone! We need books like this to provide the pictures and memories of the old and to alsosee the look of the future.