OK, continuing to try to reduce my backlog with another park that I thought I'd shared last year: Allentown Fairgrounds Park.
The history of baseball in Allentown is a bit murkier for me than I was expecting. Allentown itself was in the lower reaches of the 100 largest US cities in the 1910s-1930s, but its metro area in the Lehigh Valley (using current definitions) was more like #30 in the country. There was minor league baseball on and off, sometimes in leagues with cities in New England and New York, sometimes in leagues with cities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. When the Yankees came to town 1923, they seem to have played at a place called Edgemont Field, but various sources seem to agree that the minor league teams in that period played at the Fairgrounds.
Google Drive Link to Allentown Fairgrounds
The Allentown Fairgrounds were something of a tourist attraction, and the grandstand built in 1912 apparently still stands. This is one of those cases that would most charitably be considered "early multi-use sports complexes", where a baseball diamond got shoved into a racetrack because the racetrack already had a grandstand and it was just going to have to do--Tampa in this thread has a similar layout, and
Ottawa and
Quebec City had similar vibes. This one with the big racetrack was a bit of a challenge given how I tend to lay these out on a circular base, and I could/should have extended the background a bit further toward the rear of the stadium, but all in all I think it's not terrible.
