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Old 12-20-2020, 03:59 PM   #19
asrivkin
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Spring Training Park #2: Whittington Park in Hot Springs

Second in this mini-series is Whittington Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Several teams did their spring training here in the first decades of the 20th century, including the Cubs, Cardinals, Pirates, Tigers, Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox. This was a fun one to do--there was decent photo documentation, though as usual it contradicts some of the Sanborn map info either because the map is wrong or due to changes with time. There was an amusement park next door, which I included--the carousel is on the spot where the Sanborn map places one, though there are no photos with it. Across the street was an ostrich farm and an alligator park, the latter of which Babe Ruth hit a home run into. Both of those attractions made it into the 3D model (though I imagined what they might look like rather than modeled reality). I also put in topography for the first time, which might have been overkill but I thought I'd try it out. I was shooting for the 1910s, it's probably an amalagam of early and late in that decade.

Here's the zip file with the ballpark.
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