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Originally Posted by BaseballMan
I also plan on adding these to the Silvam and Adion collection i always use.
The ballparks really puts you in the atmosphere of the year you are playing.
One suggestion for the really early years when ballpark photos and data are hard to come by.
I'm not sure how many actually had stands so
why not just use open fields with ropes instead of fences.
I think some early ballparks had trees and were on pastures.
Maybe not put the trees in the field of play though.
If you can find the actual ballpark info great but if not i would say just creating one that can match the ballpark description of the time would work.
Anything would be better than a default modern ballpark.
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The idea of a pasture/rural base ball grounds is one that I've kicked around for a little while, if only because I know KCStengelSr is looking forward to one. We do know that all of these MLB parks were enclosed, though, even in the 1870s. The first game to charge admission did so back in 1858, at a game held at a racing ground. I think a generic 1800s MLB park would look a lot like the ones already posted here, if maybe not with all the fancy towers that some of them have. I could consider making one, though some of the parks in the Jazz Age thread would probably suffice as well--it's not like small parks from the 1910s-1920s were terribly more sophisticated than their counterparts from a few decades earlier, I think?