Flagg Park, home of the Chicago Wind Sox
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Flagg Park is another arguably the most recognizable stadiums in the league, and the team always manages to fill seats, even on down years. The ballpark has had three separate streaks of more than 200 consecutive sellouts, including a sport-record 283. The park was built in 1918 and was named after Royce Flagg when he retired as owner and handed the team over to his son Rick in 1974. Flagg Park has the shortest right field in all of baseball--the official distance is 298 down the line, but a 44-foot high metal wall balances things out fairly well. The wall fits both a manual scoreboard as well as the out-of-town board stacked on each other. Behind the wall is a 12 story building which is connected to the stadium. It was originally a standalone, home insurance office building that was purchased by the Flagg family. The building was turned into a collection of rooftop seating, restaurants, and an iconic Chicago baseball museum. In left field sits another manual scoreboard that holds the lineups, scores, and other information. The only digital screens are the thin banners on the facade of the lower bowls. Past centerfield is Maldonado Street, a pedestrian walkway named after the player. The street wraps around the building and and is enclosed in the stadium’s property, so it isn’t open to those outside the ballpark. The street used to be for motor vehicles, but it became so dangerous to drive due to no outfield seats--the street backed right up to the outfield--that the Wind Sox were granted the rights to the street. Lastly, the crooked backstop adds to the timeless nature of Flagg Park, a quirk that was common when the stadium was constructed.
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This is definitely the most detail I've put into one of these, and I freely admit it has a lot to do with the fact that I'm a native Chicagoan - the rooftop seating Daniel mentions clearly draws from Wrigley Field, and my interpretation draws not only from Wrigley (the modified scoreboard in right field is basically Wrigley's), but from old Comiskey Park as well (the grandstand is modeled after Comiskey's old profile). Since the rooftop seating is, essentially, part of the park, I added some basic building models with 3D crowds on top. I also expanded the mentioned rooftop seating to encompass most of the buildings across Maldonado Street, as well as added a "net" to the top of the outfield walls (you might need to zoom close up to it to really see it), in order to minimize the chance of neighboring buildings and pedestrians outside the park getting hit with home run balls.