Ballpark: Baseball in the American City

by Paul Goldberger

Book Overview

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 critic.

From 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307701549
• ISBN13: 9780307701541
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 9.2"