Old baseball stadiums had lots of class
Digging through my personal library I came across another treasure. It is the book “Lost Ballparks: A Celebration of Baseball’s Legendary Fields,” by Lawrence S. Ritter.
Amongst all the nerdy baseball pursuits on which I embarked as a youngster was to familiarize myself with the Major League Baseball stadiums. There were only 16 teams back in those years and not so many stadiums to know things…