Ballpark by paul goldberger5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() In Ballpark: Baseball in the American City Goldberger expertly examines baseball’s urban roots and how the architecture of ballparks reflects how Americans have viewed cities, the game, and how the two relate to each other. ![]() ![]() Was it the green of the field? The intimacy of the seating? The way the park rose from its surroundings?Īccording to Paul Goldberger, an award-winning architecture critic currently writing for Vanity Fair, the magic of the ballpark comes from all those things and is deeply tied to baseball’s urban nature as well. If you grew up a baseball fan the magic of the ballpark was always present, although maybe it was difficult to articulate what exactly was magical about it. “The baseball field is much more than a random piece of landscape it is a magnificently conceived piece of geometry, a diamond whose dimensions are precisely and brilliantly configured to connect to a marvelous moment of human possibility: whether it will take more time or less time for a player to run ninety feet to a base than it will take a ball hit by his bat to be retrieved and thrown to that same base.” – Ballpark: Baseball in the American City ![]()
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