Part Five: After the 1990 season Chicago welcomed a new ballpark. It was terrible. More reminiscent of the symmetrical, suburban cookie-cutter style than those that came immediately after it. The new Comiskey Park was clearly the transitional experiment to link design generations. One great thing that was marked by the completion of New Comiskey was [...]
In The History Books: One Generation Removed
By: AnnexNate | Tuesday April 27th, 2010
In The History Books: Speed and Ugliness
By: AnnexNate | Wednesday April 14th, 2010
PART FOUR: Other than the obvious, Fenway and Wrigley, Dodger Stadium is the oldest remaining ballpark in the game. The Oakland Coliseum is the second oldest with Angel Stadium coming in third. All three of those ballparks are part of a series of symmetrically-based, cookie-cutter, ballparks which started in the early 1960s and continued into [...]
In The History Books: Community on a Landfill
By: AnnexNate | Thursday April 8th, 2010
Part Three: Everything I’ve seen and read and heard about Ebbets Field has led me to dream about being there. … to hear the sounds of the “Sym’phony” and the yells from people who lived around the corner from the ballpark… In its day, the ballpark was a very important part of its neighborhood. Today [...]
AL West: List of Key Arrivals and Departures
By: AnnexNate | Tuesday April 6th, 2010
The AL West was full of moves this off season. With March Madness and Tigers Woods and the beginning of the end of the 2009/10 NBA season I know that some of you have quite been able to break down some of the key changes around baseball… (or you just haven’t started caring yet) So [...]
In The History Books: The Real Purpose
By: AnnexNate | Thursday February 25th, 2010
PART FIVE: FINALE Bring In The Closer: There are a lot of players in the Hall that simply don’t match up with the others. And while it would be fun to come up with a list of all the said players (I’ve tried), it is very much impossible to do. The Hall of Fame has [...]
