CITY BASEBALL MAGIC: PLAIN TALK & UNCOMMMON SENSE ABOUT CITIES & BASEBALL PARKS

Thirty-three years ago architect Philip Bess authored City Baseball Magic, a widely acclaimed monograph on modern ballparks and the relationship between ballpark design and city harmony. The booklet prominently featured Armour Field, an urban ballpark proposed for Chicago's south side. 

City Baseball Magic and Armour Field are especially relevant today, with municipalities routinely spending $500-600 million for "state of the art" ballparks that not only ignore the physical constraints inherent in a true urban ballpark, but also fail to bring fans closer to the action, the principal reason for attending a game in the first place.

Although ballparks were once truly urban places that united fans of all backgrounds and income levels as a community, they are less so today. This needn't be the end result. How do we reverse the trend? Read City Baseball Magic. Once you do, you'll never look at baseball stadiums the same way again.

"Bess' thin but incisive...book...has become a cult classic among those who want to do more than just grumble about eating $5 tube steaks in the nosebleed sections of new $500 million "baseball entertainment complexes." [T]his year's 10th anniversary reprint...feels as fresh and relevant as ever." - Britt Robson, Utne Reader           

A well-thought-out proposal for a new park. - Roger Angell, The New Yorker

Reissued in a 6x9 perfect bound, paperback book format, the 1999 edition of City Baseball Magic features a fresh new design, larger type and graphics (forty six illustrations accompany the 64-page text), and an attractive glossy color cover.

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