Storied Stadiums: Baseball's History Through Its Ballparks
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Book Overview
Critically acclaimed author Curt Smith fulfills the wildest dreams of baseball fans everywhere by traveling through space and time in a vast, entertaining volume that spares readers the price of gas, food, lodging (and admission) and puts them in a field box at every big-league park in the pastime's history--from Fenway and Ebbets to Camden Yards and PNC Park. Just as Smith's critically acclaimed Voices of the Game is the definitive history of baseball broadcasting, Storied Stadiums chronicles the stories, statistics, and characters behind all of baseball's venues. From park to park throughout the years, the great game's triumphs, tragedies, and comedies unfold in a kinetic prose as full of surprises as a wind-aided knuckleball. Illustrated with 36 color lithographs from the Bill Goff Collection, Storied Stadiums is at once a fact-filled almanac of the more than 125 major-league ballparks, past and present, and a paean to our national pastime.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0786709480
ISBN13:9780786709489
Release Date:September 2001
Publisher:Da Capo Press
Length:624 Pages
Weight:2.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
This book gets an undeserved bad rap
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This book has been pummelled by reviewers who hate Curt Smith's writing style. Granted, sometimes he writes like someone in a mental hospital stitching phrases together in bursts. Other times he writes like your buddy telling stories in a bar. Because of the huge scope of content (ie. the entire history of baseball told via a tour of its ballparks), this clipped style works. At over 500 pages, this is still a weighty read. I would have given it 3 stars, but it earns a 4th one for the cool colour inserts that show a couple dozen paintings of historic and current stadiums at gametime.
Finally!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Its about time that a book of this subject matter was written. Not nearly enough attention is paid nowadays to the classic ballparks of the 20s and 30s other than the storied Ynakee Stadium and through this book we are introduced to not only the stadiums which at the time were cutting edge but to the players and stories of what occured within their fences. And much applause to Mr. Smith for finally giving some props to the much maligned former homeof the Houston Astros the Astrodome.
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