Home of the Game: The Story of Camden Yards - Hardcover

Loverro, Thom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878332227 ISBN 13: 9780878332229

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Home of the Game celebrates the unique position Camden Yards holds as a symbol of the modern game and a prototype for new ballparks across the country. It reveals how this revolutionary ballpark has changed the face of baseball as a sport and a business.

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Review:

"If you consider baseball to be sports theater, a drama played out in green cathedrals," suggests Loverro in this spirited exploration of how one ballpark changed the essential experience of the fans and a city's image of itself, "then Camden Yards has become the stage for the game." Indeed it has, and the model for things to come as well. In the first half of his Camden yarn, Loverro reconstructs the complex thinking and planning that went into creating the archetype of new-wave retro ballparks. As he examines the confluence of events (including the remarkable collaboration between baseball and Baltimore) required to raise a mecca for the game and a renaissance for a city in decline, he also offers a smartly concise history of stadium evolution and shows the influence Camden Yards has had on every park built since. The book's second half is devoted to memorable moments on the field itself--none, of course, more dramatic and inspirational than the thrilling 1995 series against the Angels in which Cal Ripkin tied and then broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive-game streak. It was an event that first stirred baseball from its poststrike doldrums, a high drama played out on a stage that seemed custom-built for its very occasion. --Jeff Silverman

About the Author:

Thom Loverro has been a professional journalist since 1977. He has worked for a number of newspapers, including "The Baltimore Sun, " where he spent eight years as a news editor and reporter covering government, politics, and crime. Loverro moved into sports reporting when he joined "The Washington Times" in 1992, and he has gained a reputation as one of the best sports columnists in the the Washington metropolitan area. He has won eighteen national, regional, and local journalism awards over his career, including a first place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He is also a two-time sports columnist winner in the Virginia Press Association competition. Loverro is the author of seven books; this is his first on the world of professional wrestling.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0878332227
• ISBN 13: 9780878332229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288