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Old 11-05-2023, 12:09 PM   #242
asrivkin
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Greenlawn Park, Indianapolis

Next up, it's Greenlawn Park, aka Federal League Park, home of the Indianapolis Hoosiers Federal League team (obviously).

Google Drive Link to Greenlawn Park

A history of the ballpark at the SABR website can be found here. In short, it was purpose-built for the 1914 season, then the Feds moved the team for 1915, it was used for random sporting events and as a home park for the Indianapolis ABCs through 1916, and then the park was torn down early in 1917.

Given its very short life, there's more info than I might have expected. Only a couple of photos, both from the LF corner (or beyond it) looking toward home plate. An Sanborn map update was fortuitously made that included it, but it split the park between three different maps (a quick-n-dirty splice is included below). However, the dimensions appear to be pretty well-known, and I used the Green Cathedrals values in the .prk file. I again used the Gambo park factors.

As far as other design choices, I put in a few Indianapolis- and period-appropriate ads, which I pulled from the West Washington Street ballpark I posted very early in this thread. The scoreboard is also pulled from that ballpark. I'm also doing an experiment by using skyboxes that are only the sky--I'm always thrown by the way the world seems to spin because the sky moves non-physically, but I've been unable to make location-appropriate skyboxes that I like. Anyhow, put the skybox on or not, as you like.
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