Legendary Ballparks Moments and Memories from America's Most Storied Stadiums

by Enders, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780785845416
• ISBN10: 0785845410
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-06-17
• Publisher: Chartwell Books
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Summary

Take a grand-slam tour of North America’s best-loved ballparks with this visually stunning, fact-packed book that includes 15 removable pieces of baseball ephemera.

Featuring nostalgic images from across the country and throughout baseball history, Legendary Ballparks is a colorful exploration of the places where baseball history happens. 

From Fenway to Dodger Stadium, North America’s legendary ballparks have been the scenes of some of the most unforgettable moments in sports. This definitive guide to Major League ballparks of the past, present, and future takes you inside the stadiums and gives you a front-row seat into baseball’s greatest games.

Imagine your ballpark bucket list. Even if you can’t get to every park, this book takes you there with hundreds of photos, stories, and stats about:

• Storied parks such as Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, and Dodger Stadium
• Fan favorites AT&T Park, Camden Yards, and PNC Park
• Forgotten treasures like Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis, and all five parks of the Detroit Tigers
• New stadiums such as the Atlanta Braves’ SunTrust Park (now Truist Park), the Minneapolis Twins’ Target Field, and New York’s Yankee Stadium and Citifield
• More than 40 other major league parks that tell the story of the national pastime through the lens of the fields the players call home

In addition to this treasue trove of history and lore, this handsome edition includes 15 removable pieces of baseball memorabilia, including photos of historic ballparks, reproductions of World Series programs, and a printed ballpark bucket list.  

Perfect for fans of any MLB team, this book brings the colorful stories of America’s ballparks to life.

Author Biography

Eric Enders is a baseball historian and former researcher at the Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, New York. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, Variety, MLB’s World Series program, Yankees Magazine, and many other publications. He has also been a reporter for the El Paso Herald-Post and an editor and proofreader for numerous publishers, including Barnes & Noble and National Geographic. A native of El Paso, Texas, and a lifelong Dodger fan, Eric operates Triple E Productions, a baseball research and editing company.