The Ballpark Is The Great American Public Space
by Tanner Howard from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#4F44B)

Is a ballpark a place to watch baseball, a theme park, a microcosm of its city, or something else entirely? It's an open question that stretches back to the late 19th century, when enclosed ballparks, flanked by cheaply constructed wooden bleachers, began the gradual evolution of ballpark construction that reaches to"