Dec 22, 2024 · The deepest center field ever The Polo Grounds is widely known as having the deepest center-field fence in history at an astounding 483 feet. But when Braves Field was originally built in 1915, it stretched even farther.

Sep 15, 2021 · Boston's Fenway Park and Chicago’s Wrigley Field—Major League Baseball's oldest ballparks—are charming testaments from the sport's early 20th century. Some of the peers of those ballparks had...

Sep 30, 2015 · Oddly enough, that's not even the strangest baseball-related happening in Pittsfield: Official MLB historian John Thorn once uncovered a 1791 document making it illegal for anyone to play baseball within 80 yards of the town meeting house, because too many windows were being broken.

For some strange reason, there is a random hill on the centerfield warning track at Minute Maid Park. While it has helped centerfielders bring a few balls back into the park, it has...

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Nov 16, 2018 · Ewing Field is perhaps the most vivid example of an extreme ballpark affecting game play — anyone know how sitting by a campfire affects an outfielder’s range factor? — but it’s hardly unique...

Apr 9, 2020 · In Thursday’s Hot Clicks: The weirdest baseball fields in the world, the Falcons’ new uniforms and more. There are countless thousands of baseball fields in the United States, and no two are...

Aug 10, 2018 · While many stadium concepts don’t make it beyond the hope-and-dream phase, people at NeoMam Studios and Vivid Seats created these images to show us what seven of the most unique never-built...

Sep 30, 2012 · One problem: the Coliseum was built with basically every sport in mind… except for baseball. Thus leading to a crazy set-up that will forever be immortalized as the weirdest looking stadium ever used by a modern MLB team. Left field was only 252 feet away, while right-center was 440 feet from home.

Eleven of these retro-classic ballparks have opened around the league since the 1990s with strange, artificially quirky dimensions based on baseball stadiums of a bygone era.