Baseball park
A baseball park, baseball stadium, or ball park / ballpark is a place where baseball is played. It refers to the field of play, seating areas (if any) and any other things added to it.
The flexible rules about baseball fields (aside from the rigid rules of sizes of basepaths and pitcher's mound) allow ballparks to have their own character and quirks. This happens at all levels of baseball, amateur and especially professional. This makes each stadium interesting and unique.
Field
The baseball field is a grassy field that is about 450 feet (140 m) or more in diameter,[1] and is separated into the infield (the area nearest to the batter) and the outfield.
The infield is a square (usually called a "diamond"), with each side being 90 feet (27 m) long. In each corner of the square, there is a "base", which is a square with sides of 15 inches (38 cm). One of the bases is called home base or home plate, and the sides of the square that touch home plate are extended beyond the two nearest bases until the outfield fence (which is 300 feet (91 m) or more away from home plate)[2] to form the foul lines. Most of what happens in a baseball game happens in the area of the field in between the foul lines and the outfield fence, which is called fair territory. All other areas of the field (except the foul lines) are called foul territory.
Major League Ballparks
Below is a list of all current ballparks for teams of major league baseball.
Baseball Park Media
- Fenway Park 20-April-2021.jpg
Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox and the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball
- Globelifefield june2020.jpg
Globe Life Field, home of the Texas Rangers and the newest ballpark in Major League Baseball
- Baseball diamond.svg
Diagram of a baseball infield
- Yankee Stadium (29 September 2007).jpg
Picture of old Yankee Stadium showing its left field fence, which was famous for being farther than the right
- Baseball at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, NJ in 1866.jpg
"The American National Game of Baseball - Grand Match for the Championship", depiction of a baseball game at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ. Lithograph by Currier & Ives.
- WorldSeries1903-640.jpg
The Huntington Avenue Grounds during the 1903 World Series
- Fenway from Legend's Box.jpg
Fenway Park is the oldest active ballpark in Major League Baseball. The famed Green Monster is the left field fence.
- ThreeRiversStadium.jpg
Aerial view of Three Rivers Stadium, c. 2000
- Tropicana Field Playing Field Opening Day 2010.JPG
Tropicana Field, currently the only active indoor-only MLB ballpark
- Dodger Stadium from bullpen.jpg
Dodger Stadium's varicolored seats
References
- ↑ http://web.mit.edu/~xsdg/Public/papers/himcm-2003.pdf "The width is the distance between foul poles... the Twins’ field width (473.9 ft) and the Braves’ field width (470.2 ft) is not significant. However, the difference between the Rockies’ and Yankees’ field widths (492.9 ft and 446.9 ft, respectively) is very significant."
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
