![]() ![]() ![]() Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck is a fully wheelchair accessible space with on-site van accessible parking. Microphones and speakers will not be used at this event but can be made available with advance notice. And how the site details and the requirements of the game-the diamond, the outfields, the walls, the grandstands-shaped our most beloved ballparks. Throughout, Goldberger shows us the way in which baseball's history is concurrent with our cultural history: the rise of urban parks and public transportation the development of new building materials and engineering and design skills. Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger takes an entirely new look at the history of baseball, in his new book, 'Ballpark: Baseball in the American City.' He explores how. In the changing locations and architecture of our ballparks, Goldberger reveals the manifestations of a changing society: the earliest ballparks evoked the Victorian age in their accommodations-bleachers for the riffraff, grandstands for the middle-class the "concrete donuts" of the 1950s and '60s made plain television's grip on the public's attention and more recent ballparks, like Baltimore's Camden Yards, signal a new way forward for stadium design and for baseball's role in urban development. CLICK HERE to RSVP Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger will talk with Oblong's Dick Hermans about his exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks at the heart of our cities-where dreams are as limitless as the outfields. ![]()
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