Not good for the PBP images but......

Here's some of the unusables I've found in my searches for ballpark images.

Hilltop Park Yankees
Cleveland Stadium under construction in 1931
West Side Park in 1909 Cubs
Fenway 1914 World Series
South Side Grounds White Sox

Forbes Field
and a Pirates Cubs game in Pitt 1908

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Originally Posted by robinhoodnik

Hilltop Park Yankees
South Side Grounds White Sox

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I have used images based off those, mainly because there's virtually nothing else available.

Home plate doesn't have to be on the bottom but it helps.

I just ordered three books on the historical ballparks off of Amazon. (with pictures) I got a sickness...... :cool:

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Originally Posted by Jeff Olsen

Home plate doesn't have to be on the bottom but it helps.

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I try not to be, but I get obsessive on these things. ;) For my sets I want both foul poles (or very, very close to that) and a home plate, and in the correct positions. :o

Nice pics. I enjoy seeing the old parks.

a skilled photo shopper probably could rotate the first pic to the correct position for you Robin...

I thought about trying it myself. There's a lot of work on that one though. I'm hoping instead that there's a good shot in one of the three books I ordered. ;) Lazy. :o

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Originally Posted by robinhoodnik

I thought about trying it myself. There's a lot of work on that one though. I'm hoping instead that there's a good shot in one of the three books I ordered. ;) Lazy. :o

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:D

Man nice stuff though!

man look at the size of the infield in photo one

I know, that's about the first thing I noticed as well. Crazy, huh?
:)

Great photos. I wonder what that structure is in the Forbes Field photo? It looks like they took some armory and coverted it into a ballpark.

Also, the Forbes Field I recall had a city park beyond the outfield fence that also had some baseball fields. This photo looks like there are some large buildings behind the outfield fence. Perhaps those building burned down or were torn down or perhaps it is an optical illusion and the buildings are futher away than they appear.

Thanks for sharing them.

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Originally Posted by TexanBob

Great photos. I wonder what that structure is in the Forbes Field photo? It looks like they took some armory and coverted it into a ballpark.

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When I get home I'll check my copy of Green Cathedrals* to see if it says anything about that.



*This is the main source I used when compiling the stadium database.

That thing in CF could be a batting cage, depending on how old the picture is.

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Originally Posted by Jeff Olsen

That thing in CF could be a batting cage, depending on how old the picture is.

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Yep, I remember of times when they would set up a batting cage in deep center field during a game (sorry tales of this, I'm not that old), but I can't recall which field it was to be able to say with certainty it was Forbes or not. But that did in fact happen IRL.

thanks for sharing the phots robin.

Some more pics.
1911 Highlanders postcard.
Torre and Oh on a Japanese exhibition tour.
Sportsmans Park.
Polo Grounds (check out the cars, and where they're parked!).
Another Polo Grounds. This from 1913.
You can really see the development going on in NYC in the last two.

Two interesting rings as well.

I would love to have that Brooklyn Ring :)

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Originally Posted by boomboom

I would love to have that Brooklyn Ring :)

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Yeah, I was just thinking the EXACT same thing. That is cool, and my mom is a Dodger fan from when they were in Brooklyn. I would pay for that ring to give my mom.

Multiple millions of dollars, at least...

Only about 32 player rings in existence from the Brooklyn days. 1955 was the only World Series win for them.

Have any WS rings ever actually been sold? (Let alone Brooklyn Dodgers rings)
...Estate sales are a possibility, I guess.

Yes, but some teams, and I think that the Yankees are the main team, have the right of first refusal when one is going to be sold.

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Yep, I remember of times when they would set up a batting cage in deep center field during a game (sorry tales of this, I'm not that old), but I can't recall which field it was to be able to say with certainty it was Forbes or not. But that did in fact happen IRL.

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Green Cathedrals indicates that the batting cage at Forbes was moved from behind Home to deep CF in 1925.

Something I found while browsing baseball images at the Library of Congress website: Brookside Stadium, Cleveland.

Interesting. Can you imagine a modern team trying to use the grassy knoll as seating?
lol

Not sure what's going on here. I know it's Griffith Stadium, some opening day ceremony perhaps?

Ebbets Field under construction, 1913

Another view of that Chicago/Pittsburgh game:

Standing room only!
:)

Temporary bleachers in Ebbets Field, first game of the 1920 World Series.

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Originally Posted by Jeff Olsen

Not sure what's going on here. I know it's Griffith Stadium, some opening day ceremony perhaps?

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The home plate umpire lost his contact lens.

Heh

Opening day for the Eastern League in Newark's Meadowbrook Oval, 1910.

South Side Park, game five of the 1906 World Series.

South Side Park, sixth--and final--game of the 1906 World Series.