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Old 09-21-2020, 11:14 PM   #5
asrivkin
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Wiedenmayer's Park

OK, second is Wiedenmayer's Park in Newark. This was the park that the Newark Peppers of the Federal League wanted to play in, but the International League team held the lease so the Peppers were forced to get a new field built in nearby Harrison. I went back and forth a lot about which of those two parks to try, before settling on Wiedenmayer's since there was more photographic material to work from.




I let myself be a bit more creative with this park. I figured nobody would see the "Hetzel's" sign on the side of the grandstand so I moved it to be a billboard. Another photo has a giant cow and I couldn't tell what the cow was advertising, so I made it a Carnation ad (I now think it was a Bull Durham tobacco ad, but oh well). I enclosed the park and put in ticket booths (which nobody will see). There's an article on the SABR website about the park (https://sabr.org/bioproj/park/wieden...ark-newark-nj/) that mentioned women's restrooms being a perk that they advertised so I put those in (which nobody will see). I also put in a scoreboard (which people will see).

Here's a view of the park:


It was also the first park where I brought in the fences compared to the real-life version--I simply wasn't sure how OOTP would handle it, since I think the home run rate in the real 1910s would have been up in that park since once something got past an outfielder it was a lot easier to run forever, but obviously the algorithms think that home runs would be way down. So I brought them in rather than try and wrestle with that problem.

Enjoy!
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