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kcstengelsr · 06-20-2021, 12:41 PM

Thank you asrivkin!
Historically Charlie Finley threated to move his team to a cow pasture near Peculiar, Missouri prior to the 1964 season and Charlie claimed that he would spend up to one million of his own dollars to build it (Colt Stadium in Houston a couple of years earlier cost about two million). Actually Peculiar is only 32 minutes from KC proper and when the Royals finally moved out of KC Municipal their new place was 21 minutes from KC proper, so Charlie's idea was not completely out of bounds. KC Muni was aging and the city waited perhaps too long to commit to building a new baseball field. Maybe the Athletics might have never moved to Oakland if Finley Park was built. Maybe that cow pasture place would turn out to be a popular destination with gradual expansion for more capacity.

Since this would have taken place prior to 1964 I mentioned to asrivkin that 1964 was the one year that Charlie Finley decided that he had to get power hitters and move the right field corner to nearly duplicate the dimensions of old Yankee Stadium. His pennant porch was declared illegal after two exhibition games and was replaced with a legal 325 foot down the line concept he called one-half pennant porch. His Athletics hit more homers in 1964 than in 1963 with the shorter fences but his pitchers gave up a whole lot more and Finley moved the fences deeper after 1964. I told asrivkin while testing Finley Park to imagine that Charlie's lawyers had convinced baseball powers to permit the original pennant porch. It is certainly unique.

Also, I created a complete sounds file for Finley Park to properly play with sounds appropriate for a small park set in the mid 1960s with a rural feel. Instead of posting a link to them in mods/sounds, I think asrivkin deserves to have the file Finley Sounds here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/u6q9o...ounds.zip/file
Once you get Finley Park going with one of your teams, edit the Finley Park sounds file by pasting all the Finley Sounds there. While playing manual games with Finley Park with Finley Sounds I leave ambient frequency at default but like bumping up the ambient volume to 190 (all other volumes default). You can adjust ambient volume to your taste but if you for example want to occasionally hear Finley's mule or perhaps some cattle in the pasture, pump it up.

06-20-2021, 12:41 PM	#58
kcstengelsr Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2021 Posts: 147	Thank you asrivkin! Historically Charlie Finley threated to move his team to a cow pasture near Peculiar, Missouri prior to the 1964 season and Charlie claimed that he would spend up to one million of his own dollars to build it (Colt Stadium in Houston a couple of years earlier cost about two million). Actually Peculiar is only 32 minutes from KC proper and when the Royals finally moved out of KC Municipal their new place was 21 minutes from KC proper, so Charlie's idea was not completely out of bounds. KC Muni was aging and the city waited perhaps too long to commit to building a new baseball field. Maybe the Athletics might have never moved to Oakland if Finley Park was built. Maybe that cow pasture place would turn out to be a popular destination with gradual expansion for more capacity. Since this would have taken place prior to 1964 I mentioned to asrivkin that 1964 was the one year that Charlie Finley decided that he had to get power hitters and move the right field corner to nearly duplicate the dimensions of old Yankee Stadium. His pennant porch was declared illegal after two exhibition games and was replaced with a legal 325 foot down the line concept he called one-half pennant porch. His Athletics hit more homers in 1964 than in 1963 with the shorter fences but his pitchers gave up a whole lot more and Finley moved the fences deeper after 1964. I told asrivkin while testing Finley Park to imagine that Charlie's lawyers had convinced baseball powers to permit the original pennant porch. It is certainly unique. Also, I created a complete sounds file for Finley Park to properly play with sounds appropriate for a small park set in the mid 1960s with a rural feel. Instead of posting a link to them in mods/sounds, I think asrivkin deserves to have the file Finley Sounds here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/u6q9o...ounds.zip/file Once you get Finley Park going with one of your teams, edit the Finley Park sounds file by pasting all the Finley Sounds there. While playing manual games with Finley Park with Finley Sounds I leave ambient frequency at default but like bumping up the ambient volume to 190 (all other volumes default). You can adjust ambient volume to your taste but if you for example want to occasionally hear Finley's mule or perhaps some cattle in the pasture, pump it up. Last edited by kcstengelsr; 06-23-2021 at 06:54 AM.