Game of Edges, Mallparks, and Penguin Power explore different dimensions of baseball’s past, present and future.
.” The book offers a holistic look at how the business of sports changed the professional expression of the games themselves.
Bud Selig was MLB’s commissioner for the duration of that period. He often reminded audiences that baseball was a “social institution.” The downtown ballpark boom fit that concept, bringing people together at a central location – not an isolated, cookie-cutter mausoleum – for the purpose of consumption both inside and outside the ballpark.
And what to make of the “ballpark village” ideal that took the Atlanta Braves out of Atlanta, and nearly took root in Oakland before John Fisher forced the A’s into a shotgun wedding in Las Vegas? After extracting a few lessons in architecture, economics and history from baseball’s recent past, “Mallparks” predicts a future tension between the cities and the suburbs for the next wave of ballpark construction.
This memoir serves as a useful link to the team’s past, recalling anecdotes from a time when Walter and Peter O’Malley truly ran the club like the family business it was. “From the mid-1950s until the mid-1990s,” Cey wrote, “every player that wore the Dodgers uniform owed a debt to at least one of them or, in my case, all three” of Al Campanis, Tommy Lasorda, or Walter Alston.
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