I'm off on vacation (hi from a port in Baja!) and that means I have a bit of free time to finally get a bit more progress on the to-do list! I am also, however, having trouble getting Steam to boot up here, so I'm afraid the screenshots below will be minimal...
Anyhow, here's something to represent
Louisville Base Ball Park, home of the
Louisville Grays. This team played two years in the NL and is (unfortunately) best known as the perpetrators of the worst pre-Black Sox gambling scandal in MLB history. There is an
article about the park itself (sort of) on the SABR website.
Google Drive link to Louisville Base Ball Park
I expected more information than I had, and while I started the park thinking I could be pretty historical, I think it's more historical-flavored. :\ Most accounts say the grandstand was inspired by Hartford's, so I let myself be inspired by
dfswan'sHartford model. At first I was considering using Churchill Downs as a model, since it was built at about the same time in the same city, but it turns out the iconic architecture of Churchill Downs showed up in the 1890s. I also couldn't find a 3D model of the racetrack anywhere for free, or I probably would have used it anyhow.
This model is only about half the width of the stated size of the lot in a few sources, but it's very similar in size many of the other contemporary parks we have in this thread, and while there is some humor to having a Kentucky ball team living in a "double wide" I don't think from a design point of view it makes a ton of sense. So, absent a real historical-based depiction being unearthed, I think this is as good as we can do. The background is from present-day Louisville, if not quite in the same part of town as the ballpark itself was sited.
By my reckoning this finishes off the NL for 1876-1877, and was the last missing multi-year ballpark for the NL. As always, comments/questions are welcome and I hope you enjoy it!