Take Me Out to the Ballpark: An Illustrated Tour of Baseball Parks Past and Present

This stadium-shaped book is a wonderful tour through every park in the Major Leagues, alongside dozens more stadiums from the minor leagues, negro leagues & baseball's past. Every stadium is displayed in huge full-color photos & illus. Each page is crammed with the stats baseball fans love -- who got the park's first hit, total cost of construction, what date saw the biggest crowd, number of balls that have made it over the fences, & much more. Includes legends of all the famous athletes & their spectacular achievements, along with fun stories of unusual incidents & incredible occurrences. Special sections explore all the things that make a trip to the ballpark unique, from hot dogs to Cracker Jacks, announcers to organists, scoreboards to mascots. Wow!