by Max Mason | Jun 23, 2022 | The Ballpark Project Blog, Uncategorized
“Vender, Comerica Park, Detroit”, oil on canvas, 48″ x 60″, 2017 I have always liked watching the game from high up. You see the geometries better. The sense of space is exaggerated. When the ball is put in play two cycles of motion...
by Max Mason | Jun 26, 2020 | The Ballpark Project Blog
The first Native American pro baseball player was Louis Sockalexis. He was nicknamed “Chief,” the first of a long line of “Chiefs” in Major League ball. It’s interesting that Indians were allowed to be pro ball players while African Americans were banned. In fact more...
by Max Mason | Jun 20, 2019 | The Ballpark Project Blog
Click on title to see full post “Foul Ball, Busch Stadium III, St. Louis” [[wysiwyg_imageupload:268:]] Busch Stadium, St. Louis I’m a little foggy on the exact details of the first ballgame I ever attended, but it was definitely at Busch Stadium in St...
by Max Mason | Jun 20, 2019 | The Ballpark Project Blog
“Foul Ball, Busch Stadium III, St. Louis” Busch Stadium, St. Louis I’m a little foggy on the exact details of the first ballgame I ever attended, but it was definitely at Busch Stadium in St Louis. Originally named “Sportsman’s Park”, it was in a densely...
by Max Mason | Feb 22, 2017 | The Ballpark Project Blog
TV moved into our suburban Boston home in the summer of 1960 when I was 7 years old. Early that fall I ran home from the bus stop to catch what was left of each World Series game. The Yankees were the Red Sox nemesis and my best friends’ father was from...
by Max Mason | Jun 10, 2014 | The Ballpark Project Blog
How is it that beauty and tragedy go together? In the baseball world (the hearts and minds of millions of us) tragedy is not an exaggeration when it comes to the travails of Chicago’s beloved Cubs and their Wrigley Field home. Most recently, and perhaps most famously,...
