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“I read this entire book! Baseball inspires a religious devotion for me and its many followers.
This book by Paul Goldberger gives incredible new insights into the cathedrals at which we love to
worship it. I am so grateful for it. Thank you, Paul.― —Jerry Seinfeld'As a Pulitzer
Prize–winning architecture critic, Paul Goldberger brings scholarship and a discerning eye to
these pages. He also brings a thoughtful fanâ€s appreciation of baseballâ€s unique appeal
and romance. Qualities which are enhanced, or diminished, by ballpark design.' —Bob Costas
“Offers a concise history of major-league ballparks, from the earliest wooden structures to the
present . . . Flip to the sections on your favorite parks and youâ€ll find surprising tidbits on
nearly every page, [but] the book also mounts a sustained argument across its pages, which
makes reading it end to end equally rewarding . . . Lushly illustrated.― —John Swansburg,
The New York Times Book Review“Both a beautifully illustrated history of North American
baseball stadiums and a defense of the simple but enduring idea of a ballpark that fits neatly into
the hum and hive of a grid of city streets . . . Goldberger has an easy way with his descriptions,
and his analyses of various ballparks are done with clarity and wit. The book is studded with
insightful observations.― —Michael Lindgren, The Washington Post'There has never been a
book on a sports subject that approaches a subject through the historical designs of its playing
fields or, surely, does it as well. Through his architectural expertise and with compelling writing
skills, Paul Goldberger in Ballpark: Baseball in the American City takes the reader into arenas
that embrace unique and pleasurable insights of what is commonly referred to as our national
pastime.' —Ira Berkow“[An] entertaining, insightful account of the places that house the
national pastime . . . One of the most engaging books to be written on either cities or baseball in
the past decade . . . The emotional resonance of Ballpark is a testament to Goldbergerâ€s
thoughtfulness.― —Josh Stephens, Planetizen  “Excellent . . . thought-provoking . . .
[with] sumptuous photos and illustrations.― —Whitney Terrell, Literary Hub“Highly
informed and interesting . . . An invaluable book, with delicious stories and insights into both
baseball and urban studies. —Richard Horwich, The East Hampton Star“For all of the
writing about baseball, no one before has accomplished what the brilliant architecture critic Paul
Goldberger does in Ballpark. In illuminating detail, he shows how the places where the game is
played say as much about the sport and the changing American aesthetic as wins and losses and
managers and owners and players.― —David Maraniss, Pulitzer prize–winning author of
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero“A well-illustrated and eminently
readable history of this uniquely American structure . . . Enthusiasts of baseball, architecture, and

urban history will all relish this fine book.― —Andrew Shea, The New Criterion“An
engrossing read . . . A work of architectural history and criticism [that] can also be read as a history
of baseball or of America and its cities.― —Martin Pengelly, The Guardian“Cheerfully
approachable . . . [A] scorecard, you might say, of the stadiums, a record of their hits and errors . .
. Many of the old ballparks receive their due here . . . [Goldberger] clearly loves the game. But the
ballpark, he says, also reflects Americaâ€s history and culture, its demographic patterns.―
—David M. Shribman, The Wall Street Journal“An in-depth peek into the history of the
stadiums that we have come to know and love. From the first park to the modern stadiums that we
enjoy now, Paul Goldberger does and amazing job of collecting and organizing the history of these
stadiums in a beautiful way.― —Danielle McManus, San Francisco Book Review
“Unlike any book ever written, Ballpark captures the romance, the history, the architectural
wonder, the neighborhoods, and the pure, unadulterated love of baseball that make up
Americaâ€s major league baseball stadiums, both past and present.― —Jerry Milani, NY
Sports Day“A fascinating read for baseball fans, architecture enthusiasts, and anyone with a
taste for American history (or hot dogs).― —Town & Country“Goldberger draws an
irrefutable link between the evolution of baseball park design and Americaâ€s shifting attitudes
towards architecture and urbanism [and] expertly traces the architectural history of the American
ballpark and its relationship to the pastoral imagination . . . With Ballpark, Goldberger succeeds
in assuring its reader that the building type is as worthy of design scholarship as any other.―
—Shane Reiner-Roth,Arc