Baker Bowl?

jasonn29tn14 · 04-07-2024, 02:36 PM

I downloaded the stadiums from Steam Workshop. Is the Baker Bowl not included? Or am I just overlooking it somehow?

Syd Thrift · 04-08-2024, 03:55 PM

Im pretty positive that Silvam18 has collected 3D versions of ever stadium used with regularity in the MLB going back to at least 1915 and I’m 100% positive that I’ve used a 3D Baker Bowl in the past. Is it up on Steam?

Pelican · 04-08-2024, 04:43 PM

I have downloaded Baker Bowl (there are several versions) and use it regularly. the 3D version by Silvam is extraordinary. I played the 1938 Season, when the Phillies moved to Shibe Park mid-season, and the slugging differences are amazing.

If I could ever figure out how to use the modeling software, I want to create a version of Baker Bowl where the Phils demolish the ugly old RF fence, move the field out about fifty feet onto Broad Street, and put in some bleachers, cantilevered over the sidewalk.

Syd Thrift · 04-08-2024, 05:04 PM

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.

BaseballMan · 04-09-2024, 10:28 AM

They built those parks pretty quick back then.
Yankee Stadium was built in less than year.
I think one of the Poli Grounds burned down and a new one was up within a year.
I guess it's a little easier when you don't have all the stuff we see at ballpark now days.

Pelican · 04-09-2024, 10:47 AM

I've read a lot about the history of the Federal League. Several stadiums were built in a hurry in 1914 to accommodate the new teams. What is now Wrigley Field the sole survivor. How teams managed to build during the Winter in Buffalo and Baltimore and St. Louis is hard to understand.

04-07-2024, 02:36 PM	#1
jasonn29tn14 Major Leagues Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 320	Baker Bowl? I downloaded the stadiums from Steam Workshop. Is the Baker Bowl not included? Or am I just overlooking it somehow?

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Pelican Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: Wilmington, Delaware Posts: 3,156	I have downloaded Baker Bowl (there are several versions) and use it regularly. the 3D version by Silvam is extraordinary. I played the 1938 Season, when the Phillies moved to Shibe Park mid-season, and the slugging differences are amazing. If I could ever figure out how to use the modeling software, I want to create a version of Baker Bowl where the Phils demolish the ugly old RF fence, move the field out about fifty feet onto Broad Street, and put in some bleachers, cantilevered over the sidewalk. __________________ Pelican OOTP 2020-? ”Hard to believe, Harry.”

04-09-2024, 10:47 AM	#6
Pelican Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: Wilmington, Delaware Posts: 3,156	I've read a lot about the history of the Federal League. Several stadiums were built in a hurry in 1914 to accommodate the new teams. What is now Wrigley Field the sole survivor. How teams managed to build during the Winter in Buffalo and Baltimore and St. Louis is hard to understand. __________________ Pelican OOTP 2020-? ”Hard to believe, Harry.”

04-09-2024, 10:28 AM	#5
BaseballMan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 6,619	They built those parks pretty quick back then. Yankee Stadium was built in less than year. I think one of the Poli Grounds burned down and a new one was up within a year. I guess it's a little easier when you don't have all the stuff we see at ballpark now days.