{"product_id":"lost-ballparks-by-dennis-evanosky-eric-j-kos","title":"Lost Ballparks by Dennis Evanosky, Eric J. Kos","description":"Lost Ballparks takes the successful format of the Lost series and applies it to the cherished ballparks of the past, from Anaheim and Atlanta to Toronto and Washington.\u003cbr\u003eBaseball has a history like no other American sport. The Union Grounds in Brooklyn, New York, is considered to be the first ballpark ever built, when William Cammeyer decided to use the Union Skating Pond as a ground for baseball games in 1862. Professional teams followed in 1871 and enterprising owners began to invest in the creation of wooden palaces, such as the Grand Pavilion in Boston and Sportsman’s Park in St Louis.\u003cbr\u003eThe first steel-and-concrete ballpark was Shibe Park in Philadelphia built in 1909 which housed a then-record 20,000 spectators and set the standard in ballpark design. The Brooklyn Dodgers matched that with Ebbet’s Field in 1913 and the New York Yankees trumped them with a 58,000 capacity Yankee stadium to house the legion of babe Ruth fans.\u003cbr\u003eOver the years the cathedrals of baseball have come, been copied and are now gone, with all but a few heavily-modernized exceptions. Lost Ballparks looks back at the most storied ballparks in baseball’s rich history.\u003cbr\u003eFrom the wooden bleachers of Boston’s Huntington Avenue Grounds to the ‘space age’ Houston Astrodome, to the tidal harbor ballpark at Ketchikan Alaska, there is a huge variety of ballparks that have fallen\u003cbr\u003eList of cities: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Clearwater, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, DesMoines, Detroit, Emeryville (Ca), Fort Mill (SC), Houston, Indianapolis, Johnson City (NY), Kansas City, Ketchikan (Al), Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Milwaukee, Montreal, Newark, NewOrleans, New York, Omaha, Rochester, St Louis, St Paul, St Petersburg, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tokyo (Japan), Toledo, Toronto, Washington, D.C., Wilmington.","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50540062376251,"sku":"191121649X","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/12919183482868.jpg?v=1756297427","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/lost-ballparks-by-dennis-evanosky-eric-j-kos","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}