FENWAY PARK: THIS PROPERTY CONDEMNED

FENWAY PARK, WITH ITS GREEN MONSTER, IS ONE OF THREE TREASURED BALL PARKS THAT COULD SOON FALL VICTIM TO THE WRECKING BALL OF AVARICE

Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds are now housing projects. The Deliverance Evangelistic Church sits on the site of what was once Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium. The Herbert Hoover Boys Club is where Sportsman's Park used to be in St. Louis, Missouri. Crosley Field was swallowed up by I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The spot on which Bill Mazeroski stood in 1960 when he hit his dramatic World Series home run in Forbes Field is actually in a ladies' room on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. They paved paradise, the old Comiskey Park in Chicago, to put up a parking...

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