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Mets Extend Olive Branch To Fans By Limiting Their Ability To Watch The MetsThe Mets are a revolving door of controversy and incompetence, as the most recent New York team to win a pennant(!) has spent the past month (or two, or three...) plagued by internal anger, poor play, and a tendency to kill off ex-players before they actually die. It must be no fun to be a Mets fan ...

How Concrete And Steel Built BaseballThe opening of Yankee Stadium on April 14, 1923, was a triumph for baseball....

The Ballpark Is The Great American Public SpaceIs a ballpark a place to watch baseball, a theme park, a microcosm of its city, or something else entirely? It’s an open question that stretches back to the late 19th century, when enclosed ballparks, flanked by cheaply constructed wooden bleachers, began the gradual evolution of ballpark constructi...

A Lot Happening At The Ballparks Today

Classic Ballpark Food, Ranked

Classic is the key word here. These days, you can probably get sushi at Yankee Stadium, and ballparks take particular pride in their unique offerings—as they well should. If you go to Citizens Bank Park to watch the Phillies lose and don’t get the Chickie’s and Pete’s Crab Fries, you’ve made a mista...

Can You Identify The Baseball Stadium From The Minimalist Poster?

A couple of months back, we featured the first eight of S. Preston's minimalist baseball stadium posters. Well, he's finished the whole set....

Infographics: Overlaying The Ballparks Of Major League Baseball

We've seen graphics that compare ballpark orientation (like this or this) and we've seen graphics that compare ballpark dimensions (here or here), but as far as we can remember, we've never seen a graphic do both at once. Here are some cool posters put together by designer Jeremy Huggins. It's alway...

13 Years After Safeco Field Opens, The Mariners Move The Fences In

The Mariners announced today that they're moving the fences in at Safeco Field. 13-year-old Safeco Field. The same Safeco Field where Ken Griffey and Bret Boone and Edgar Martinez played. The stadium that hosted Cal Ripken's last All-Star Game. Weird, right? But it's actually the thing to do now....