Today's offering is one of the iconic parks of the late 1800s, Boston's
South End Grounds in its 1888-1893 configuration (usually styled "South End Grounds (II)" in discussions. There were three consecutive parks on this site, in use from 1871-1914, and collectively seeing their home team's name change from the Red Stockings through several different names before settling on the Braves. However, they were known as the Beaneaters during their entire tenure in this version of the South End Grounds. There's a SABR article on the history of the three parks on the site
here.
Google Drive Link to South End Grounds 1888
This one is similar in a lot of ways to the Brooklyn Eastern Park I posted last time, most obviously in the conical towers, but also in the overall rectangular shape. I played a test game and things seemed to work fine even with the very short lines--players never set up there so they obey the grid. Having said that, the grid gets very wonky right at the lines, and I did see a case of an outfielder leave the field to fetch a ball. On the other hand, I also see that on occasion with other larger fields, so it may just be one of those things.
I included the Sketchup file in the download if folks who were comfortable with it wanted to tweak anything. I took the pragmatic approach that the parts of the stadium that aren't in a camera angle didn't matter, so the outside of the stadium is less accurate than it cold be (but not less accurate than necessary.
). I used the park factors in gambo's chart for the South End Grounds, and put the dimensions from Green Cathedrals as inputs in the game itself. The actual model has slightly different dimensions but are pretty close, and of course the game will use what's input rather than read the model. One of the camera angles is a bit of an easter egg, though it's more properly associated with the earlier South End Grounds...
OK, that's a lot of text (I also noticed that it's really 1894 not 1893 and can't edit the title--whoops!). Here are the screenshots. Next up I'm planning to tackle the von der Ahe era Sportsman's Park...