Some Jazz-Age Ballparks

[dawg1isclear]

Originally Posted by niu354

Great news! I’m setting up a 1903 save and can’t wait to use more of your work.

That wouldn't be the pro-reg quick start, would it?

[niu354]

Indeed, it is.

[Braden]

Originally Posted by asrivkin

Hi all,

At Oosl's request, I'm posting Victory Field I (aka Perry Stadium and Bush Stadium), which served Indianapolis from 1931-1996. It served Indianapolis' AAA team throughout that entire stretch, but also served various Negro League teams during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as a minor league football team. Today it's been converted into an apartment complex, with much of the footprint intact.

Google Drive link to Victory Field I

Contrary to the 19th century parks, which took up most of my 2024 modeling time, Victory Field had dimensions that were easy to find and I didn't feel like I had to do a lot of guesswork with it. The walls were ivy-covered (and apparently inspired Wrigley's ivy), but I didn't have many clear images that showed it, plus making them entirely ivy-covered didn't really look right, so I made it patchier on the walls. That would be easy enough to change if there were an outcry. The background is actually as true as I could get--I perched Google Earth up on the roof of the apartments where the press box used to be and did the panorama from there. So, whether or not it fits the time frame you use it, it's true to place.

As a last note for now, we had a great cruise and end-of-year vacation, and are now equilibrating to being back and current events. It's my hope to be able to contribute here at the same kind of pace I have been, but I might need to prioritize other activities and aspects of my life. My top priority for the models is to get a bunch of them in shape to go into Steam for the next version of OOTP, and I know there are a few requests for parks that I'll try to get to. I'm not expecting to disappear, but new parks may be a bit less common.

In any case, enjoy the parks and let me know if you have any issues!

I cleaned up the ivy walls a wee bit. If anyone is interested, you can get this up date here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7mtuv3r8o1nug/Parks

[dawg1isclear]

Originally Posted by niu354

Indeed, it is.

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!!! Sweet, how is it coming along? Very interested to see how this comes out....

[niu354]

Testing the league structure is going well. Few small pain points that need workarounds, but nothing that risks the save’s viability. I’ve got good logos/uniforms for most teams thanks to these boards. Now working on getting 1,500 free agents onto their real-life teams…it’s exhausting!

[oosl]

Originally Posted by Braden

I cleaned up the ivy walls a wee bit. If anyone is interested, you can get this up date here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7mtuv3r8o1nug/Parks

Hi Braden

This is really cool, can you post day and night photos from the same angle as the ones asrivkin posted in his zip file?

I would appreciate it thank you!

[Braden]

Originally Posted by oosl

Hi Braden

This is really cool, can you post day and night photos from the same angle as the ones asrivkin posted in his zip file?

I would appreciate it thank you!

I don't know what view he used. You can open his version and save the views he uses then open my version and import his views. I only use 5 views.

Glad you like the wall.

You can also just import the views from one of your other parks that have views you like.

[oosl]

Originally Posted by asrivkin

Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QYa...usp=drive_link

Have fun (and let me know if there's a problem)!

I hope you are doing well and looking forward to seeing your next project!

[LansdowneSt]

asrivkin,

The 19th c. & Jazz Age parks you sent to me went up midday yesterday in the Steam Workshop. It will be fleeting but, for the moment, you have one more subscriber than the great silvam14's historical parks!

[asrivkin]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

asrivkin,

The 19th c. & Jazz Age parks you sent to me went up midday yesterday in the Steam Workshop. It will be fleeting but, for the moment, you have one more subscriber than the great silvam14's historical parks!

Stop the count!

[silvam14]

Definitely getting these! Awesome work. major props!

[asrivkin]

Hi all,

I'm away on work travel, but I'm also procrastinating. So, it's a good time to post this update to post #15 (which I'll also update). West Washington Street Park in Indianapolis was one of my first efforts, and one that wasn't level--the slight slope of the field plane was _exceedingly_ notable for the outfielders. I fixed it for my own league, but didn't post the update here. I'm now doing that, also so that there's a version that can go to the Steam uploads. I made one other major change, which is to the background.

Google Drive link to updated West Washington Street Park

I'll post a couple more screenshots and contemporary images below, if only for fun.

[asrivkin]

Today it'll be a bit of a niche posting.

The Philippines were an American possession from 1898 until its independence in 1946, save a few years of Japanese occupation in World War II. The United States imported baseball to their colony, and Rizal Stadium, which still stands today, is one of the few remaining stadiums that hosted Babe Ruth.

The park I'm posting today isn't that one, though. Today I'm posting the predecessor to Rizal Stadium, which had a few different names but for our purposes is Luneta Park. It hosted some early world baseball tours, but was mostly home to a league consisting of American servicemen. The 24th Army was one of those teams, and featured both Oscar Charleston and Bullet Rogan.

Google Drive link to Luneta Park

Considering just how unknown this park is, there's actually some not-bad photo evidence out there. The ballpark was right next to the grounds for the Manila Carnival, which was a very big deal for the colony. It was also very close to the Rizal Monument and Luneta part of Manila, and there are a lot of aerial, if oblique, views. The park was torn down and Rizal Stadium built in 1934, and the Battle of Manila in 1945 changed a lot of the surrounding area forever.

I haven't had the chance to play a game in this park yet, but it should work. Let me know if you have any issues!

[oosl]

Welcome back! Great job as always!

[asrivkin]

Hi all,

Back with another niche one today, and perhaps more historical fiction than historical per se. In the sim I'm playing there's a post-season all-star tournament that follows a barnstorming tour route, which has been the impetus for some of the more unusual parks I've made. For the tournament that closes the 1924 season the tour route will be leaving North America for the first time and heading to East Asia. That's what motivated building Manila's Luneta Park, which will host the final. I've also been retrofitting a couple of Silvam's Japanese parks to look more like how (I think) they'd've been in the 20s, and I'll thank Flying Canuck for providing Korean and Taiwanese parks that I can do the same to. I'm happy to post my retrofits if there's interest.

In any case, I also figured that the teams would stop in Hong Kong and Shanghai. I'll post Shanghai next, though to be honest there's nothing particularly distinctive about it. Partly because of that, I figured I should try to make Hong Kong more obviously unique. There was a game in Hong Kong on the famous Giants-White Sox 1914 World Tour but apparently it was kind of an ad hoc affair and I wanted my boys to have something better. So I modeled the Hong Kong Cricket Club grounds and slapped a field on it.

Google Drive Link to Hong Kong Cricket Club

There was ample material for what I needed--the grounds were right in the middle of things back then (and until the 70s) and there were plenty of maps and photos. The grounds were a pretty good size to house a baseball field, if a bit short along the right field line. The pavilion might have a bit of a later appearance than the mid-20s, but it might actually be correct. The surrounding buildings are right. The background is taken from various panoramas from the right time period, though I had to do some cutting and pasting to merge an older panorama with the distant landscape together with a colorized one from the 1920s with the newer buildings.

This was a fun one to make! I'm about to head off for some work travel, so won't be posting anything for a couple of weeks, but will be back! As usual, let me know if you have questions/issues.