Ballpark: Camden Yards and the Building of an American Dream
In this lively chronicle of the creation of the Baltimore Orioles' new stadium, Richmond interweaves baseball history and hardball politics, architecture and the structure ot sports in the '90s to tell a tale as filled with tussles, turmoil, and triumphs as baseball itself.
In this lively chronicle of the creation of the Baltimore Orioles' new stadium, Richmond interweaves baseball history and hardball politics, architecture and the structure ot sports in the '90s to tell a tale as filled with tussles, turmoil, and triumphs as baseball itself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780684800486 (0684800489)
Publish date: March 1st 1995
Publisher: Touchstone
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Ballpark tells the tale of how Baltimore’s much lauded new field, Camden Yards, came to be. It includes satisfying depictions of the personalities involved, the owners, architects, politicians, and of how a perfectly serviceable, if uninspiring Memorial Stadium was shunned to make way for a shiny ne...
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