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Old 01-23-2019, 12:18 AM   #1
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Historic ballparks we don't have

Perhaps someone out there has some of these or wants to work on them. These are parks that the existing MLB franchises played in at some point that we don't have. Adion and Silvam have every park from about 1910-present.

Braves
South End Grounds 1876-1887
South End Grounds 1888-1894
South End Grounds 1894-1915

Orioles
Lloyd Street Grounds 1901

Red Sox
Huntington Avenue Grounds 1901-1911

Cubs
23rd Street Grounds 1876-1877
Lake Front Park 1878-1882
Lake Front Park 1883-1884
West Side Park 1885-1890
South Side Park 1891-1893
West Side Park 1894-1915

White Sox
South Side Park 1901-1909

Reds
Bank Street Grounds 1882-1883
League Park 1884-1893
League Park 1894-1901
Palace of the Fans 1902-1911

Tigers
Bennett Park 1901-1911

Indians
League Park 1901-1909

Dodgers
Washington Park 1884-1889
Washington Park 1890
Eastern Park 1891-1897
Washington Park 1898-1912

Twins
American League Park 1901-1903
American League Park 1904-1910

Yankees
Oriole Park 1901-1902
Hilltop Park 1903-1911

Athletics
Columbia Park 1901-1908

Phillies
Recreation Park 1883-1886
Philadelphia Baseball Grounds 1887-1894

Pirates
Recreation Park 1882-1884
Recreation Park 1885-1890
Exposition Park 1891-1908

Giants
Polo Grounds 1883-1888
Polo Grounds 1889-1890
Polo Grounds 1891-1910

Cardinals
Sportsmans Park 1882-1892
Robison Field 1893-1919
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Old 01-27-2019, 02:18 PM   #2
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Detroit Tigers - Briggs Stadium, yes i know it was called Tiger Stadium but he has Navin Field 1936 then nothing til Tiger Stadium 1970.
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Old 01-27-2019, 04:38 PM   #3
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He has a Briggs Field 1938-1947, Tiger Stadium 1948-1979, and Tiger Stadium 1980-1999.

I went through every team and as far as I could tell the only gaps we have in ballparks are what I listed in the first post.
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He has a Briggs Field 1938-1947, Tiger Stadium 1948-1979, and Tiger Stadium 1980-1999.

I went through every team and as far as I could tell the only gaps we have in ballparks are what I listed in the first post.
Adion does, Silvam does not. i'm using Adions Briggs.
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Sacramento CA...Hughes Stadium
Salt Lake City...Bonneville Park

These would be "entertaining" to add!
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Old 02-06-2019, 02:15 PM   #6
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Good luck finding information on some of those wooden ballparks from the 19th century. There are no photographs of some of them, such as Lakefront Park in Chicago. There's only one known photograph of the Lloyd St Grounds (Milwaukee), and only a couple of photos of the original Sportsman's Park in St Louis that I'm aware of. In some cases, it's not even clear where the park was located.
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Here's an update:

Braves
South End Grounds 1876-1887
South End Grounds 1888-1894
South End Grounds 1894-1915 - DONE

Orioles
Lloyd Street Grounds 1901 - DONE

Red Sox
Huntington Avenue Grounds 1901-1911 - DONE

Cubs
23rd Street Grounds 1876-1877
Lake Front Park 1878-1882
Lake Front Park 1883-1884
West Side Park 1885-1890
South Side Park 1891-1893
West Side Grounds 1894-1915 - DONE

White Sox
South Side Park 1901-1909 - DONE

Reds
Bank Street Grounds 1882-1883
League Park 1884-1893
League Park 1894-1901 - DONE
Palace of the Fans 1902-1911

Tigers
Bennett Park 1901-1911 - DONE

Indians
League Park 1901-1909 - DONE

Dodgers
Washington Park 1884-1889
Washington Park 1890
Eastern Park 1891-1897
Washington Park 1898-1912 - DONE

Twins
American League Park 1901-1903 - DONE
American League Park 1904-1910

Yankees
Oriole Park 1901-1902 - DONE
Hilltop Park 1903-1911

Athletics
Columbia Park 1901-1908 - DONE

Phillies
Recreation Park 1883-1886
Philadelphia Baseball Grounds 1887-1894

Pirates
Recreation Park 1882-1884
Recreation Park 1885-1890
Exposition Park 1891-1908 - DONE

Giants
Polo Grounds 1883-1888
Polo Grounds 1889-1890
Polo Grounds 1891-1910 - DONE

Cardinals
Sportsmans Park 1882-1892
Robison Field 1893-1919 - DONE
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Old 03-25-2019, 07:04 PM   #8
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This is great, silvam. Thank you for your work. Just a few more to go and we'll have every park since 1901.

Palace of the Fans 1902-1911
American League Park 1904-1910
Hilltop Park 1903-1911

Are you working on these as well?
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This is great, silvam. Thank you for your work. Just a few more to go and we'll have every park since 1901.

Palace of the Fans 1902-1911
American League Park 1904-1910
Hilltop Park 1903-1911

Are you working on these as well?
Yes Sir.

possibly have those done this week
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Good luck finding information on some of those wooden ballparks from the 19th century. There are no photographs of some of them, such as Lakefront Park in Chicago. There's only one known photograph of the Lloyd St Grounds (Milwaukee), and only a couple of photos of the original Sportsman's Park in St Louis that I'm aware of. In some cases, it's not even clear where the park was located.

Couldn't the descriptions of those ballparks be used with a little fictional imagination? Just use the information that is available. Maybe even take some fictional ballparks and adjust them to that era. There seems to be enough info for the game to set dimensions. Maybe some basic ones with just fences and gradually getting more complex with billboards of the day. It may not be exact but it would be better than nothing.
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Couldn't the descriptions of those ballparks be used with a little fictional imagination? Just use the information that is available.
Well sure, if you're going to make stuff up, then that would make everything a whole lot easier

I imagine that purists wouldn't be satisfied with that solution, but for some of those early ballparks there's practically no information available. For instance, the Boston franchise played its first twelve NL seasons at the South End Grounds (I), yet there is no information about the field dimensions. A Google image search for "South End Grounds" invariably brings up images of the third South End Grounds, which was the team's home from 1894 to 1914, and a number of sites make the mistake of assuming that the three ballparks named "South End Grounds" were all the same ballpark. This photo (source) is the only one that I could find that shows even a portion of the original park:

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We know some basic information about the park, largely because it was on the same site as the two successive "South End Grounds," but exact information is almost impossible to come by. Does that matter? Not to me, but I suppose others might have a problem with incorporating a "conjectural" South End Grounds in the game.
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Well sure, if you're going to make stuff up, then that would make everything a whole lot easier

I imagine that purists wouldn't be satisfied with that solution, but for some of those early ballparks there's practically no information available. [
We have to accept what is available and work with what we got. Unless a purist can bring up the data it doesn't matter. They wouldn't be force to use them. Basing a ballpark on the ones we do have is better than none at all.
When simming from that era i find the fictional setup the game uses hard to accept as we have the information and can do something about it.
But when it comes to getting every trade date correct, i am more lenient
at just gettting the players and teams correct when no date is available.

No it may not be the exact South End Grounds of those years but we could have an educated guess at what it looked like. I'm not sure that even purists would get upset since there is no data. I think they would get upset if the ballparks were modeled after Three Rivers Stadium or even the retro parks. If its done in the style of the 19th century parks and is an option then it might work. Anything close would be better than feeling like every game is on the same field.
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I'm not someone who can actually MAKE the 3D ballparks, but I can sure gather info on the ballparks we don't have- at least as much info that's available.
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I'll go with the list from Garlon. Starting with the Braves:

South End Grounds I (1876-1887)

Found no new photos, but potential dimensions info: LF 250, CF 440, RF 255.

South End Grounds II (1888-1894)
Photos: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sour...54068409198883 https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sour...54068409198883 http://www.19cbaseball.com/rules-2.html

Dimensions: "The dimensions of the outfield were 250 feet from home base in left field, 445 feet in left center, 500 feet to straight away center field, 440 feet in right center and 255 feet in right field."

I'll cover the Cubs a little later.

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What the heck, I'll do it now.

23rd Street Grounds

Just about no information available. It's reported the outfield dimensions were "short", and this barely passes as a photo: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sour...54069215715081

Lake Front Park (1878-1884)

Photos: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sour...54069344233975 https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sour...54069344233975

Dimensions: The only just about confirmed dimensions of the park is that right field was ridiculously short at 190-200 feet. Balls hit over the right field fence were called ground rule doubles until 1884, when HRs spiked that season for Chicago. Nothing else is confirmed, but my guesses on other dimensions is 220-250 feet in left and 430-490 in center.

West Side Park 1885-1890


Photos: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ark_ca1885.JPG

Dimensions: 216 in right, 560 in center. The left field dimensions are unknown, but considering the property, left field was probably very similar to left, probably about 215-240 feet.

South Side Park (1891-1893)

Just about no information available. The dimensions were most likely dissimilar to the following South Side Park, as it was located on a different property.
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Old 03-30-2019, 09:37 PM   #16
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I'll go with the list from Garlon. Starting with the Braves:

South End Grounds I (1876-1887)

Found no new photos, but potential dimensions info: LF 250, CF 440, RF 255.


Dimensions: "The dimensions of the outfield were 250 feet from home base in left field, 445 feet in left center, 500 feet to straight away center field, 440 feet in right center and 255 feet in right field."
Those dimensions, from the Wikipedia article, are for South End Grounds III. I saw similar numbers in the SABR article (which I linked), but I intentionally did not cite them because I consider them unreliable. First of all, it's from Michael Benson's Ballparks of North America, which, as others have noted, contains some troubling inaccuracies. In contrast, more reliable sources, like Green Cathedrals and the Seamheads ballpark database, do not show any dimensions for the first South End Grounds. Secondly, the dimensions cited by Benson are roughly the same dimensions as the third South End Grounds. Now, is it possible that the two parks had identical dimensions? Well, they occupied the same site, so it's possible, but I consider it improbable, as it's unlikely the Boston management wanted to duplicate a park that it had torn down seven years earlier. I think it's more likely that Benson was either sloppy in his research or just didn't think it was important to differentiate between the two ballparks. In short, I'm unconvinced by Benson's numbers.

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South End Grounds I

An artist's rendition from an 1876 trade card:

Offered for the first time (as best we could determine) is a very rare 1876 trade card advertising "Barb Fence Armor." Barb wire was first patented in 1868 making this a very early promotion for the product which was popular with farmers and ranchers. It seems it was also a favored part of the stadium for the Boston Base Ball Grounds (also known as South End Grounds) as the the front displays a wood cut scene of a game being played plus surrounding buildings. The back copy conveys the testimonial of N.F. Apolonio, President.

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The Herald Ham Nine baseball team pose for a group portrait at the South End Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts. 1880 would've been the South End Grounds I.
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An artist's rendition from an 1876 trade card:
Excellent find! That, together with the 1875 photo, can give us a pretty good idea of what the grandstand at the original South End Grounds looked like, which could then form the basis for a historically faithful recreation of the ballpark. Of course, we still don't know what the field dimensions were, but since the OOTP game engine doesn't care, I'm not sure why we should.

A few more observations:

1. The owners of the Red Stockings were notorious penny-pinchers, so perhaps it's no surprise that they would be installing barbed-wire on top of the fences to keep out freeloaders. Still, nothing says "fun at the old ballpark" quite like a wall that makes the place look like a prison.

2. The field dimensions, if they exist, typically show the distances from home plate to the outfield fence, but one thing they often leave out is the amount of foul territory behind the plate and down the lines. In the ballparks of the nineteenth century, foul ground was often enormous, especially when measured by today's standards. The trade card gives some feel for that, although the artist's rendition is all screwed up and the perspective is downright weird.

The current minimum distance from home plate to the backstop (60 feet) was only instituted in the 1930s. Before then, the minimum distance was 90 feet, and often it was more than that. The reason was simple: there was no netting protecting the fans behind home plate and down the lines from errant foul balls, so seats had to be a safe distance from the batter. That also explains why the grandstand at South End Grounds and those at other ballparks were so high. That can be seen in the photo, which shows that the wall behind home plate is, I estimate, at least 10' tall.

3. Another feature that the photo shows is the board fence in front of the grandstand. That wasn't unique to the South End Grounds - the Messer Street Grounds in Providence had something similar.

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At Providence, I've read that the locker rooms were underneath the grandstands, so the fence protected players going to and from the clubhouse. At Boston, there were evidently concession stands there. What's unusual is that the Boston management put bleachers between the fence and the grandstand, thereby squeezing a couple dozen more paying customers into the park at the risk, no doubt, of killing a few each season due to foul balls. That board fence wasn't there to protect the fans - presumably no one was sitting directly behind it. Instead, it was clearly just a backstop for balls so they wouldn't roll under the bleachers. The fans had to watch out for themselves.

4. As the trade card shows, canvas sheets were installed on the wall down the first base side to prevent people in the houses across the street from seeing the games for free. That is something that is timeless - Connie Mack did the same thing at Shibe Park in the 1910s, and the Cubs were still doing it in the 1990s at Wrigley Field.

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Another photo from Messer Street Grounds featuring both the Grays and Boston from 1878.
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