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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
I'd be dubious of some of those numbers. For instance, it's very unlikely that the original Sportsman's Park cost $300,000, even though it was part of what might be termed today an "amusement complex." $300,000 in 1881 would be something like $6 or $7 million today, and that would be for a simple wooden grandstand. More likely, that figure is for the conversion of the park in 1909, when the first steel-and-concrete stand was built.
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Well ti is Wikipedia after all. Although I agree it would have been nice to cite their sources.