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Originally Posted by micropterus58
The link for Scranton Athletic Field takes us to Sulphur Dell. I can't believe you can make a stadium from these photos.
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There's also an insurance map (split between a couple of pages, see one of them below!), but yeah. There's some amount of research (stadium dimensions are sometimes available for these parks), some amount of measurement, some amount of educated guesswork (backstops are almost always 60' and are otherwise usually 45'), and some amount of historical fiction. The maps like the ones below are great when available--sometimes they have the heights of the stands or to the roofline, but even if not the height is typically close enough to half the grandstand width that I just use that. Sketchup lets you put in photos and match the viewing angles and lines of sight that you can trace what you see (in theory). And I almost always have a lot more material than I cram into these posts. But I don't have any particular artistic ability, this is really just a lot of practice.