Author: David Furgess
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497444133
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Municipal Stadium Waterbury, Connecticut offers the lasts peek at the historic baseball stadium in Waterbury, CT. Municipal Stadium was the former home of the Class AA Eastern League Waterbury Giants, Waterbury Indians, Waterbury Pirates, Waterbury Dodgers, Waterbury A's, Waterbury Reds, Waterbury Angels and the independent Northeast League franchise Waterbury Spirit. Players such as Bobby Bonds, Eric Davis, Paul O'Neill, Pedro Guerrero and Rick Sutcliffe called Municipal Stadium home at various times. This book is filled with series of photos taken in March 2012 (prior to the stadium undergoing a major renovation.)
Municipal Stadium Waterbury, Connecticut
Author: David Furgess
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497444133
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Municipal Stadium Waterbury, Connecticut offers the lasts peek at the historic baseball stadium in Waterbury, CT. Municipal Stadium was the former home of the Class AA Eastern League Waterbury Giants, Waterbury Indians, Waterbury Pirates, Waterbury Dodgers, Waterbury A's, Waterbury Reds, Waterbury Angels and the independent Northeast League franchise Waterbury Spirit. Players such as Bobby Bonds, Eric Davis, Paul O'Neill, Pedro Guerrero and Rick Sutcliffe called Municipal Stadium home at various times. This book is filled with series of photos taken in March 2012 (prior to the stadium undergoing a major renovation.)
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497444133
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Municipal Stadium Waterbury, Connecticut offers the lasts peek at the historic baseball stadium in Waterbury, CT. Municipal Stadium was the former home of the Class AA Eastern League Waterbury Giants, Waterbury Indians, Waterbury Pirates, Waterbury Dodgers, Waterbury A's, Waterbury Reds, Waterbury Angels and the independent Northeast League franchise Waterbury Spirit. Players such as Bobby Bonds, Eric Davis, Paul O'Neill, Pedro Guerrero and Rick Sutcliffe called Municipal Stadium home at various times. This book is filled with series of photos taken in March 2012 (prior to the stadium undergoing a major renovation.)
Cleveland Stadium
Author: Jim Toman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780936760100
Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780936760100
Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Soldier Field
Author: Liam T. A. Ford
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226257096
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Sports fans nationwide know Soldier Field as the home of the Chicago Bears. For decades its signature columns provided an iconic backdrop for gridiron matches. But few realize that the stadium has been much more than that. Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City explores how this amphitheater evolved from a public war memorial into a majestic arena that helped define Chicago. Chicago Tribune staff writer Liam Ford led the reporting on the stadium’s controversial 2003 renovation—and simultaneously found himself unearthing a dramatic history. As he tells it, the tale of Soldier Field truly is the story of Chicago, filled with political intrigue and civic pride. Designed by Holabird and Roche, Soldier Field arose through a serendipitous combination of local tax dollars, City Beautiful boosterism, and the machinations of Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson. The result was a stadium that stood at the center of Chicago’s political, cultural, and sporting life for nearly sixty years before the arrival of Walter Payton and William “The Refrigerator” Perry. Ford describes it all in the voice of a seasoned reporter: the high school football games, track and field contests, rodeos, and even NASCAR races. Photographs, including many from the Chicago Park District’s own collections, capture these remarkable scenes: the swelling crowds at ethnic festivals, Catholic masses, and political rallies. Few remember that Soldier Field hosted Billy Graham and Martin Luther King Jr., Judy Garland and Johnny Cash—as well as Grateful Dead’s final show. Soldier Field captures the dramatic history of Chicago’s stadium on the lake and will captivate sports fans and historians alike.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226257096
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Sports fans nationwide know Soldier Field as the home of the Chicago Bears. For decades its signature columns provided an iconic backdrop for gridiron matches. But few realize that the stadium has been much more than that. Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City explores how this amphitheater evolved from a public war memorial into a majestic arena that helped define Chicago. Chicago Tribune staff writer Liam Ford led the reporting on the stadium’s controversial 2003 renovation—and simultaneously found himself unearthing a dramatic history. As he tells it, the tale of Soldier Field truly is the story of Chicago, filled with political intrigue and civic pride. Designed by Holabird and Roche, Soldier Field arose through a serendipitous combination of local tax dollars, City Beautiful boosterism, and the machinations of Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson. The result was a stadium that stood at the center of Chicago’s political, cultural, and sporting life for nearly sixty years before the arrival of Walter Payton and William “The Refrigerator” Perry. Ford describes it all in the voice of a seasoned reporter: the high school football games, track and field contests, rodeos, and even NASCAR races. Photographs, including many from the Chicago Park District’s own collections, capture these remarkable scenes: the swelling crowds at ethnic festivals, Catholic masses, and political rallies. Few remember that Soldier Field hosted Billy Graham and Martin Luther King Jr., Judy Garland and Johnny Cash—as well as Grateful Dead’s final show. Soldier Field captures the dramatic history of Chicago’s stadium on the lake and will captivate sports fans and historians alike.
Cleveland's Municipal Stadium
Author: George Cormack
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882171217
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882171217
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Municipal Facts
Author: Denver (Colo.). City and County
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Municipal Facts
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Denver (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Denver (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Stadium
Author: Frank Andre Guridy
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541601475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)—from the first wooden ballparks to today’s glass and steel mega-arenas—revealing how it has made, and remade, American life. Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest ballparks to the present, stadiums have also functioned as public squares. Politicians have used them to cultivate loyalty to the status quo, while activists and athletes have used them for anti-fascist rallies, Black Power demonstrations, feminist protests, and much more. In this book, historian Frank Guridy recounts the contested history of play, protest, and politics in American stadiums. From the beginning, stadiums were political, as elites turned games into celebrations of war, banned women from the press box, and enforced racial segregation. By the 1920s, they also became important sites of protest as activists increasingly occupied the stadium floor to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, fascism, and more. Following the rise of the corporatized stadium in the 1990s, this complex history was largely forgotten. But today’s athlete-activists, like Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe, belong to a powerful tradition in which the stadium is as much an arena of protest as a palace of pleasure. Moving between the field, the press box, and the locker room, this book recovers the hidden history of the stadium and its important role in the struggle for justice in America.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541601475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)—from the first wooden ballparks to today’s glass and steel mega-arenas—revealing how it has made, and remade, American life. Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest ballparks to the present, stadiums have also functioned as public squares. Politicians have used them to cultivate loyalty to the status quo, while activists and athletes have used them for anti-fascist rallies, Black Power demonstrations, feminist protests, and much more. In this book, historian Frank Guridy recounts the contested history of play, protest, and politics in American stadiums. From the beginning, stadiums were political, as elites turned games into celebrations of war, banned women from the press box, and enforced racial segregation. By the 1920s, they also became important sites of protest as activists increasingly occupied the stadium floor to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, fascism, and more. Following the rise of the corporatized stadium in the 1990s, this complex history was largely forgotten. But today’s athlete-activists, like Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe, belong to a powerful tradition in which the stadium is as much an arena of protest as a palace of pleasure. Moving between the field, the press box, and the locker room, this book recovers the hidden history of the stadium and its important role in the struggle for justice in America.
Field of Schemes
Author: Neil deMause
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803285485
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803285485
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road Trip
Author:
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781599216270
Category : Baseball fields
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
An enthusiastic, irreverent, but exhaustive guidebook to all the stadiums of Minor League Baseball, following up on the success of the first Ultimate Baseball Road Trip book, which was dedicated to Major League stadiums.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781599216270
Category : Baseball fields
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
An enthusiastic, irreverent, but exhaustive guidebook to all the stadiums of Minor League Baseball, following up on the success of the first Ultimate Baseball Road Trip book, which was dedicated to Major League stadiums.
Sundry Civil Bill, 1917
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description