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Originally Posted by topherlee2
Can't to see more 'what-ifs' especially modern evolution on classic ballparks
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Well, good news - we have another classic ballpark re-imagined. This time I decided to take a run at Tiger Stadium. I wanted to give it a Fenway/Wrigleyesque upgrade, including a Ballpark Village like addition:
Inside of the park it's pretty similar to the original. The field is similar in dimensions to where it was in the 1990s, minus building in bullpens in the outfield. Outside of the right field remodel (to be covered below), the biggest tweak is that I reduced the size of the upper deck and included some luxury boxes, because we know those would have been added in in any redo.
In right I decided to build it out a bit more. I scooted in the seats (keeping the overhang over the field) a bit and built out an office building. The wall in right has a hand-operated score board (thanks again to eriqjaffe for his original)
And a new, larger, color scoreboard gets installed above right field, along with the classic Tiger Stadium sign.
It was fun to dig into the history of the stadium, and to imagine what could have been if more effort would have gone into saving it. It's a cool piece of baseball history, and it's too bad that it's gone.
The playing field was pretty small, so it plays up for power hitters and down for everyone else.
Zip file can be found here
Park Factors
Stadium Picture
