Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America’s Pastime Episode 8, Sacred Ground: Baseball's Early Ballparks Episode 8, Sacred Ground: Baseball's Early Ballparks.

Streaming video - 2019

In this episode, survey the history of ballparks from the Elysian Fields in Hoboken to Wrigley Field to Fenway Park and beyond. You’ll learn how ballparks were defined by their surroundings, the rise of “infields” and “outfields,” the idiosyncratic dimensions and sizes of 19th-century ballparks, the state-of-the-art architectural elements of 20th-century ballparks, and more.