Field of Schemes: An anniversary few noticed: 100 years & Forbes Field
Field of Schemes: An anniversary few noticed: 100 years & Forbes Field
"Now remembered as a small intimate ballpark that has long since been demolished, at the time Forbes Field was the most massive monument to professional sports ever built.
"It was built entirely with private funds, and it ushered in a sort of competition among team owners to build similar ballparks, places like Fenway, Wrigley, Comiskey, Ebbets, and Navin in Detroit....
"My theory: Now that the real ballparks of a bygone era have inspired construction of numerous "retro ballparks," MLB is not wedded to keeping the old dinosaurs around. In short, Fenway and Wrigley have served their usefulness in prompting the kind of new construction that has made team owners around the country lots of money. If dumping them for shiny new models is in the cards, MLB would not have a problem with that."
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Longtime baseball fans would laugh out loud to hear that Forbes Field would be described as "small" and "intimate." Any ballpark that's 360 feet down the lines and 460 feet to center field is practically cavernous. It's widely acknowledged that playing at Forbes early in Willie Stargell's career kept him from hitting a total of 500 home runs (he ended his career with 475).