Today's post represents
College Park in Charleston, SC. But the files aren't called that because I hadn't planned to post it until recently and I renamed it Lombard Park after a friend who grew up in Charleston. You can rename it as you choose, of course.
Google Drive link to College Park (again, called "Lombard Park".
As I was getting ready to post this I also realized this is somewhat more fictional than I like to post (which also contributed to my initial reluctance)--the park that stands today was built in 1940
on a site that had been hosting baseball since much earlier. There's some confusion out there (which I'm maybe contributing to now) because there's a neighboring diamond that was the original minor league site that was abandoned after hurricane damage. The only pre-1940 picture I could find is below--in that picture, the field on the right is College Park. When the metal grandstand was built in 1940 they reoriented the field. I think the Sanborn map excerpt below represents the post-1940 park even though it says the sheet was added in 1939.
What I made for my c. 1920 game was a mish-mash of eras--it's the post-1940 orientation and the dimensions (and background) from today's park, but made retro-style with sharp angles and wood to fit in with the 1920-era parks in the league. So, depending on your need for verisimilitude, you may or may not like this park. However, contrary to many of the fields I make, I didn't put any period- or place-specific ads, so it should be able to stand in all right for various needs.
Next up: I'm trying to work my way through a bit of a backlog. I've got several parks already finished that were on thehef's priority list (but that I didn't realize anyone else would want), so I'm going to try to push those out (College Park was one of them). The remaining ones that I haven't posted are:
- Island Park, Wichita
- Scranton Athletic Park
- West End Park, Houston
- McNulty Park, Tulsa
- Wearn Field, Charlotte
- Sulphur Dell, Nashville (but in its original orientation not the crazy hill orientation)
- Bayside Park, Portland
I have some others not on the list, too, but figure I should post these first.