This Week In Cool Places That Don't Exist Anymore

This is Shibe Park.
Well, it WAS Shibe Park.
Then it was renamed Connie Mack Stadium. Then it was demolished.

The Philadelphia Athletics played baseball here from 1909 to 1954.
The Philadelphia Phillies played baseball here from 1938 to 1970.
It was Major League Baseball's first steel-and-concrete stadium. Stadiums up to that point were made from wood, which tended to burn down. Ironically, Shibe was damaged by fire in 1971 and finally torn down in 1976.

I like the cupola out front. What stadiums have cupolas anymore?
How regal. File under: they don't make 'em like they used to.

Check out THIS SITE that illustrates the evolution (or de-evolution, depending on how you look at it) of the field dimensions between 1909 and 1960. Centerfield was originally 515 feet away, which was crazy far, even for the dead-ball era.


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