[Syd Thrift]

I mean to be fair, that stadium was all kinds of awful and the Phillies should have either had a new stadium or should have been playing in Shibe Park decades earlier. There was a movement in the 1910s regarding urban planning called City Beautiful which produced Shibe but also classic stadia such as Fenway, Wrigley Field, and Ebbetts Field. Baker Bowl was built prior to that and even when they converted it from wood to concrete it was done on the cheap. I think even that massive sign in right was a tightwad’s attempt to rein in homers without paying the city to expand / move Broad Street around to accommodate them.