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Ewing Field
The saga of Ewing Field begins way back in 1906, when J. Cal Ewing and his partners bought the San Francisco Seals. At the time, his new...

David Hegler
May 294 min read


Washington Park
Just after Chutes Park was demolished, developers built its replacement. Since it first opened to an exhibition between the Boston Red...

David Hegler
May 272 min read


Chutes Park
Very few ballparks in America can compare with Los Angeles's Chutes Park. Surrounded by an amusement park, the ballpark was just the...

David Hegler
May 272 min read


Shea Stadium
It was one of the first dual purpose stadiums, yet always seemed to be a step behind. Still, while other stadiums enjoyed much more...

David Hegler
May 278 min read


Tampa Stadium
Tampa Stadium was shaped very much like its football team. While the Tampa Bay Buccaneers started off poorly, they enjoyed a brief...

David Hegler
May 245 min read


Gilmore Field
When the Hollywood Stars moved to Los Angeles in 1938, they spent time in both Wrigley Field and Gilmore Stadium while their permanent...

David Hegler
May 222 min read


Gilmore Stadium
Earl Gilmore loved auto racing. Having grown enamored with the Indianapolis 500, the man who built the Gilmore Oil Company into a West...

David Hegler
May 222 min read


Sick's Stadium
Seattle's road to gaining a major league team was quite tenuous as was the journey it traveled to building a stadium adequate enough for...

David Hegler
May 203 min read


The Montreal Forum
Having hosted 31 Stanley Cup Finals and countless memories in the sport, it's no wonder that the Montreal Forum is regarded as one of the...

David Hegler
May 196 min read


Rice Stadium
It was the winter of 1949 and the Rice University Owls were on a roll. Led by Froggy Williams and Joe Watson, Rice had won the daunting...

David Hegler
May 173 min read


Jeppesen Stadium
High school football is everything in Texas. All through the state, the programs and their budgets seemingly get bigger every year. In a...

David Hegler
May 164 min read


Archbold Stadium
At the turn of the century, Syracuse University was practically without an identity. That all changed when Archbold Stadium opened in...

David Hegler
May 153 min read


The Houston Astrodome
The Houston Astrodome certainly lived up to the hype. It was so much more than just the first domed stadium used for both baseball and...

David Hegler
May 118 min read


Colt Stadium
For three years, Colt Stadium invited fans to roast under the blazing Texas sun as the new team in town, the Colt .45s, found their way...

David Hegler
May 83 min read


Sportsman's Park
Sportsman's Park was St. Louis's first true baseball park. It was here where the city first fell in love with their Cardinals and where...

David Hegler
May 65 min read


Kansas City Municipal Stadium
Before Kansas City, Missouri became known as a big league city with massive and iconic stadiums, it held a moderately sized, multi-use...

David Hegler
May 35 min read


Cleveland Municipal Stadium
The venue was an enigma. Built in an age when the automobile was all the rage, it was vast enough to hold massive crowds for football...

David Hegler
May 25 min read


Hilltop Park
Ban Johnson needed a team in the Big Apple. As the founder of the infant American League, he needed a presence in the media capital of...

David Hegler
Apr 274 min read


The Polo Grounds
The Polo Grounds was once synonymous with sports and interwoven in America's fabric. It was here, not the Bronx, where the seeds of the...

David Hegler
Apr 2410 min read


Ebbets Field
Very few ballparks have claimed a city's heart like Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Perhaps it was Charles Ebbets continued investment in the...

David Hegler
Apr 197 min read
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