HOK gets blamed for the increasingly stale retro-park craze, but it’s what the fans and, ultimately, the clubs want. According to this article in Fast Company, however, it, and other architectural firms, are doing different things elsewhere: Ever since Camden Yards opened in Baltimore in 1992, new stadiums have chased nostalgia. “Teams want to rebirth […]

Originally, the Cardinals had planned on having an elaborate “Ballpark Village” built around their new stadium, complete with office, retail, residential, and restaurant space. A grand plan indeed, and one that no doubt aided their effort in obtaining financing for their new stadium. The thing to remember about such plans, however, is that they can […]

One would think that you’d make sure beer would be available BEFORE moving your AAA team into a new ballpark, but then again, what do I know?

Chip Johnson of the San Francisco Chronicle is miffed that Lew Wolff isn’t even considering Oakland in the effort to get a new stadium for the A’s. Fair enough, even though the economics probably aren’t on his side. But then Johnson trips the light moronic: In light of the team’s stated unwillingness to even consider […]

Lar at Wezen-Ball has a fascinating look back at what folks were saying the last time Yankee Stadium was replaced. And it seems like the second verse is the same as the first: In less than one month now, the new Yankee Stadium will open amidst a sea of publicity and fanfare. Newspapers and television […]

The big Coca-Cola bottle in the outfield of AT&T Park in San Francisco has a slide in it, and that slide is called the Guzzler. The sign says “keep your head and arms inside the Guzzler at all times.” But Chad Mello — HE WAS A DAREDEVIL! — just like his old man! “My foot […]

Reviews of Yankee Stadium and Citi Field from The New Yorker. The reviews themselves wind around in typical New Yorkery style, but end up here: A stadium is a stage set as sure as anything on Broadway, and it determines the tone of the dramas within. Citi Field suggests a team that wants to be […]

The Yankees, unlike every other business in the world, are not having trouble securing credit: The New York Yankees earlier this month borrowed $105 million from a group of banks led by Goldman Sachs to cover final cost overruns at the new Yankee Stadium, sources said. The loan brings the total debt on the stadium, […]

In law school they tought us that fans more or less assume the risk of balls and bats and stuff flying into the stands at ballgames. Not so in Iowa, at least when you’re a kid: The lawsuit stems from a June 2003 Quad City River Bandits game in Davenport that Tara Sweeney, 8, attended […]

Lew Wolff has given what seems like the final kiss-off to Oakland: The Oakland A’s have “exhausted” their time and resources with the city of Oakland in a search for a new home, and have “no interest in covering old ground again,” A’s owner Lew Wolff said in a statement released Friday . . . […]