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Old 02-04-2024, 05:20 PM   #24
asrivkin
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Huntingdon Street Grounds 1887 aka Philadelphia Baseball Grounds

Hi all,

The newest addition is the Huntingdon Street Grounds, aka the Philadelphia Baseball Grounds. The Phillies moved there in 1887, and didn't leave the site until 1938. In-between, the grounds succumbed to fire and experienced other disasters. The subsequent incarnations of this park have been created by silvam14 and can be found in his thread. Since everything was built and rebuilt on the same site, information about this park is usually given a cursory discussion as a lead-in to longer Baker Bowl articles.

Google Drive link to Huntingdon Street Grounds

I thought I was done with towers and turrets after Boston and Brooklyn, but I was evidently wrong. The towers here are not quite as tall as they were in real life according to the info I've seen, but they're still plenty tall. Photo evidence is scarce for this park, and what I've seen is game action. Nice for flavor, but nothing pointing at the pavilion/grandstand. There are a few sketches, which I include below. The park had a quarter-mile bicycle track on the perimeter of the field, which I stuck in, it also apparently had a scoreboard, which I didn't. :\ Maybe I'll get it in a version 2... This one is also a bit busier than previous ones--I used some of the "stadium textures" that other modders have come up with rather than one of the regular default woods, plus put in 360 degrees of city background. The big building out behind the 1b line isn't historical (the view is from a spot close to but not at the ballpark site anyhow), but you probably won't be using that camera view much, anyhow.

Next up should be one of the Pittsburgh parks, though an alternate path of doing Baltimore, Louisville, and Cincinnati's League Park II has also occurred to me and would complete the NL through the entire 60' 6" pitching mound era...
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Last edited by asrivkin; 03-17-2024 at 01:09 PM. Reason: Link to updated zip file
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