Ballpark: Camden Yards and the Building of an American Dream
- ISBN-10
- 0684800489
- ISBN-13
- 9780684800486
- Series
- Ballpark
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-03-01
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Peter Richmond
Description
In this lively chronicle of the creation of the Baltimore Orioles' new stadium, Richmond interweaves baseball history and hardball politics, architecture and the structure ot sports in the '90s to tell a tale as filled with tussles, turmoil, and triumphs as baseball itself.
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- 2005-03-01
- 48 pages
- Paperback
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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