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Old 06-28-2024, 08:16 AM   #125
asrivkin
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Recreation Park Philadelphia 1882-1886

Just got this one done, so it's time for another post! This is Recreation Park in Philadelphia, first home of the Philadelphia Phillies!

Google Drive Link to Philadelphia Recreation Park

There's not a ton of information out there about this park--only one photo (which has a limited field of view), an appearance on only one map (that I could find), a tiny appearance in a period artist's birds-eye view of all of Philadelphia, and a much after-the-fact depiction by a researcher. Even so, reconciling even those last two required a bit of fiddling and in order to fit into the street grid in the map the park has to be less symmetrical than the depiction suggests it should be. I also had to change the backstop distance from the 79' sources claim to a more standard 60', along with various other dimensions. All together, though, I'm reasonably satisfied with this one in terms of look-and-feel. The thing I'm realizing as I write this, though, is that the filename is off by a year. My apologies for that mistake!

Posting this ballpark finishes the Phillies franchise!
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