A Brief History of Ballpark Design

If baseball is America's pastime, baseball stadiums are America's architecture.
From early Jewelbox Parks (Fenway Park, Wrigley Field), to concrete donuts and multipurpose stadiums (Oakland Coliseum, Veteran's Stadium), to retro-modern parks (Camden Yards, Busch Stadium, Coors Field), baseball stadiums reflect the changes to a sport and a people over the past century.
Let's take a look into what has shaped the design of baseball stadiums.
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