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	Shibe Park, 1913 Exterior
		Shibe Park was home to the Philadelphia Athletics, and later, to the Philadelphia Phillies.
		Hence, as additions were made to Shibe Park over the years, stands could be and were added to left field (the long side of the rectangle) but the right field wall separated the stadium from 20th street.
		Shibe Park was constructed by Benjamin Shibe, co-owner of the Philadelphia Atheletics with Connie Mack.
	www.alanluber.com /merchandise/shibeparkphotos/shibeparkADL19.htm (785 words)

	History of Shibe Park
		Shibe Park housed the Philadelphia Eagles from 1940 to 1957, hosted countless High School football games, and was visited by three American presidents.
		Shibe Park was also the home of one of the greatest baseball squads of all time, the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics.
		Indubitably, Shibe Park was more then a baseball stadium, it was a Philadelphia landmark, a landmark that is still very much in the hearts of baseball fans throughout Philadelphia today.
	www.members.aol.com /glassjaw49/ShibePark.html (2420 words)

	Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society's Official Website and Online Shoppe
		When Shibe Park opened in 1909, it was hailed then, and is justly remembered now, as the first of a series of classic ballparks that dominated and symbolized Major League baseball in the 20th century.
		Shibe Park reflected the apex of modern technology, as it was then understood, from reinforced concrete in its construction to a garage beneath the rightfield stands in recognition of the increasing role cars were playing as a mode of transportation.
		The ballpark’s scoreboard was affected by and indicative of the evolution of Shibe Park.
	philadelphiaathletics.org /history/shibeparkscorecard.htm (1587 words)

	Philadelphia Phillies Ballpark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The park, which was also the home of the Philadelphia Eagles from 1933 to 1935 and the site of numerous other sports activities, came to an end in 1950 when its few remaining parts were torn down.
		Shibe Park, which had been built at a cost of $315,248 on a 5.75-acre site that had been farmland, had been home to the Athletics since it opened in 1909.
		Shibe Park was the home field for the Phillies when they went to the World Series in 1950.
	phillies.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/phi/ballpark/phi_ballpark_history.jsp (1460 words)

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		And Shibe made sure there would be plenty of affordable seats for them in Shibe Park, which was large enough to accommodate both the masses and the upper classes.
		Baker Bowl, Shibe insisted that the Athletics’ new stadium be built with the sturdiest, most modern materials: concrete and steel.
		In Shibe Park’s final years, both the stadium and its surroundings deteriorated so dramatically that the Phillies’ owners threatened to follow the A’s lead out of town entirely unless an alternative park could be found.
	www.explorepahistory.com /hmarker.php?markerId=23 (909 words)

	Shibe Park Historical Analysis by Baseball Almanac
		Ben Shibe, an Athletics stockholder and manufacturer of baseball products, had a dream in mind when he set out to build the first concrete-and-steel stadium in major league history.
		William Steele and Sons were signed on in 1908 to make the dream a reality and one year later the doors opened to Shibe Park.
		Shibe Park was designed and built by William Steele and Sons.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /stadium/st_shibe.shtml (168 words)

	Ballparks of Baseball-Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium
		The first changes at Shibe Park took place in 1913, when a grandstand was added in left field.
		From the second deck of Shibe Park, fans could enjoy views of the nearby neighborhood, were able to see the scoreboard in right centerfield, and Shibe’s colorful red seats.
		Shibe Park was renamed Connie Mack Stadium in 1953, after the manager of the A’s for 50 years.
	www.ballparksofbaseball.com /past/ShibePark.htm (792 words)

	Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society's Official Website and Online Shoppe
		This article presents a “you are there” account of what it was like to be at Shibe Park when the Philadelphia Athletics played their first Opening Day game at the ballpark on April 12, 1909.
		Shibe Park, moreover, is a dignified palace with rusticated bases, composite columns, arched windows and vaultings, ornamental scrollwork, and a fabulous French Renaissance tower with cupola that houses the offices of team Vice President John Shibe and A’s Manager Connie Mack.
		When you arrive inside Shibe Park, you’ll notice immediately that its dimensions are generous with left field at 378 feet from home plate, right field at 340 feet, and center field at 515 feet.
	philadelphiaathletics.org /history/shibe.html (1468 words)

	Philadelphia Sports History Landmarks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Museum’s new acquisitions include a rare cast-iron turnstile from Shibe Park, which is believed to date to 1910; a pair of Shibe Park signs, circa 1950; and a set of box seats circa the 1930s.
		The memorabilia was salvaged from the park by a former Phillies staff member before the stadium was demolished in 1976.
		Shibe Park was considered one of the nation's premier baseball parks when it opened in 1909 as the home of the Philadelphia Athletics Baseball Club.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /news/phmcnews02.htm (459 words)

	Shibe Park-Philadelphia, Pa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Shibe Park was home to the Philadelphia Athletics from 1909 to 1954 before they relocated to Kansas City and then finally ending up in Oakland.
		The Park was located in North Philadelphia at the intersection of W. Lehigh and 21st street.
		Old and outdated, Shibe Park gave way to The Vet, which itself is now old and outdated.
	members.tripod.com /franksballparks/shibe.html (242 words)

	Reds '98 - The Cincinnati Enquirer - March 30, 1998
		But long gone are what distinguished many of the old parks: the slanted scoreboard and right-field wall at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn; the huge Ballantine scoreboard in left field at Sportsman's Park, the tree-framed light tower and left-field scoreboard at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
		Philadelphia's Shibe Park, with its distinctive French Renaissance exterior, no longer is a home to baseball, but instead has become what it always resembled: a church.
		But the new "retro" parks in Cleveland, Baltimore and Denver (and the exciting teams that play there) are as attractive to youngsters today as parks like Ebbets and Crosley Field were years ago.
	reds.enquirer.com /1998/stadiums/dtballpark.html (1610 words)

	Baltimore Orioles : Ballpark : Oriole Park History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the beautiful baseball-only facility in downtown Baltimore, became the official home of the Orioles on April 6, 1992.
		The construction of the park was completed in essentially 33 months from the time razing previous structures on the 85-acre parcel began June 28, '89, in the area known as Camden Yards.
		Ebbets Field (Brooklyn), Shibe Park (Philadelphia), Fenway Park (Boston), Crosley Field (Cincinnati), Forbes Fields (Pittsburgh), Wrigley Field (Chicago), and The Polo Grounds (New York) were among the ballparks that served as powerful influences in the design of Oriole Park.
	orioles.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/bal/ballpark/bal_ballpark_history.jsp (325 words)

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		As you drive past the imploded rubble of Veterans Stadium across the street from Citizens Bank Park, you are struck with an expectation of excitement.
		Shibe Park had a seating capacity of 33,608.
		Paying respect to the Phillies’ former home, Shibe Park, there are rooftop bleachers in right field.
	www.goletavalleyvoice.com /cgi-bin/sports/readarticle.cgi?article=633 (745 words)

	Kuklick, B.: To Every Thing a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976.
		Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia.
		As for those who say how important is a ball park really, I'd say this.
		In a way the Coliseum was a ball park.
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/4745.html (208 words)

	Diamonds in the Rough - Two cheers for the new baseball palaces. By John Pastier
		Philadelphia's Shibe Park, home to the Athletics and later the Phillies, was one of 13 urban ballparks built in the seven-year period now regarded as the golden age of ballpark architecture.
		This is the case with older parks such as Wrigley Field and Fenway Park, and the new ones in Toronto, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Denver.
		This is why the White Sox moated their park with 100 acres of parking, why the Milwaukee Brewers refuse to build downtown, and why the Mariners insisted on the most remote of Seattle's three ballpark-siting options.
	www.slate.com /default.aspx?id=2368 (1947 words)

	Clem's Baseball ~ Citizens Bank Park
		The design is strongly reminiscent of old Shibe Park (Connie Mack Stadium): the first and third base sides of the grandstand are perpendicular to each other, with upper decks extending straight out and the lower deck angling in.
		This was a signature feature of Ebbets Field, and Citizens Bank Park is the only current stadium whose upper deck is not perpendicular at the outer edge.
		Like Comerica Park and Great American Ballpark, there is a gap in the upper deck, reflecting the height discontinuity stemming from the extra level of luxury suites in the part of the grandstand closer to the infield.
	www.andrewclem.com /Baseball/CitizensBankPark.html (1094 words)

	Scout.com: The End of Connie Mack Stadium
		From its earlier days as Shibe Park, the stadium at 21st and Lehigh was home to baseball in Philadelphia.
		Unlike Veterans Stadium, Shibe Park – the name was changed to Connie Mack Stadium in 1953 – wasn’t a brand new stadium when the Phillies moved in.
		By then, Shibe Park was the oldest stadium in major league baseball and had hosted over 6,000 games in its long history.
	phillies.scout.com /2/244229.html (820 words)

	BallparkTour.com - Citizens Bank Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was decided that the jointly-financed park would be located on a 21-acre site in South Philadelphia - on the north side of Pattison Avenue, between 11th and Darien Streets.
		Ground was broken on the new 43,500 seat, 4-tier ballpark in late 2001 and opened to the public on April 12, 2004, as the Phillies lost to the Cincinnati Reds 4-1.
		The four Joe Brown statues that graced the Vet will be relocated to the perimeter of the parking lot being constructed where the Vet once stood.
	www.ballparktour.com /Philadelphia.html (1022 words)

	Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society Gift Shoppe
		An actual brick from Shibe Park was hammered down at a recent nationwide sports memorabilia auction held in Exton, PA for $325 plus a buyers premium of an additional 10%.
		It has been more than 30 years since that last major league game was played at Shibe Park A.K.A. Connie Mack Stadium.
		Shibe Park's history is a virtual who's who from all walks of life.
	www.philadelphiaathletics.org /cart/brick.html (390 words)

	Shibe Park
		City block on which the ballpark was built measured 520 feet along 21st and 20th Streets; 481 feet, 3 inches along Lehigh Avenue and Somerset Street.
		Shibe Park Forever © 1990 by Andy Jurinko.
		Aerial view of Shibe Park courtesy of the National Baseball Library, Cooperstown, NY.
	www.ballparks.com /baseball/american/shibep.htm (474 words)

	Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: CHAPTER ONE
		Amusement parks were not the only venue for popular entertainment that fell by the wayside during the post-World War II period.
		The amusement park, the ballpark, and the streetcar belonged to a generation of urban cultural institutions that surfaced during the second half of the nineteenth century.
		Streetcars, amusement parks, ballparks, parks, museums, world’s fairs, department stores, nickelodeons, and, later on, the movies constituted the "new mass culture" that drew on available technologies to create a set of new sensations and experiences that satisfied the changing cultural appetites of an expanding urban public.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9982/9982.ch01.html (6698 words)

	Amazon.com: Philadelphia's Old Ballparks (Baseball in America): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Combined, these two parks housed major league baseball for a combined 113 seasons, with Shibe Park being the home of the Philadelphia A's from 1909 to 1954 and home to the Phillies from mid 1938 to 1970, and Baker Bowl being home to the Phillies from 1887 to mid 1938.
		Shibe Park was the first all steel-and-concrete park in major league baseball to be built (in 1909) and its materials and design were copied in essentially all ballparks that were built soon thereafter, including Ebbets Field, Fenway Park, and Wrigley Field.
		Fans too young to remember the parks in the book (like me) will quickly become experts on these lost ballparks, while fans who went to games at these ballparks will be reminded of their experiences.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566394546?v=glance (1222 words)

	Item Information \| Hometowne Collectibles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Shibe handled the business end of the team; on the field, the manager was Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack), a former catcher.
		Shibe Park was well-known for its meticulous appearance — Shibe’s sons, who took over after his death, would not even allow a single cracked seat in the park.
		Shibe Park was renamed Connie Mack Stadium in
	www.hometowncollectibles.com /items/itemhtAS02.asp (328 words)

	BallParkWatch - Phillies Ballpark / Philadelphia Phillies / 2004
		Replacing the wretched Veterans Stadium, the new Citizens Bank Park was designed jointly by HOK Sport and Philadelphia's Ewing Cole Cherry Brott and is a slight departure from recent HOK Sport parks in that it's not a downtown ballpark, but rather a standalone facility next to Veterans Stadium south of downtown.
		Despite HOK Sport's propensity toward retro ballparks in other projects like Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the retro elements in the new Citizens Bank Park are muted, and there's a noticeable emphasis here on sightlines and what's happening on the field.
		Parking should not be a problem, with 20,000 parking spaces in surrounding parking lots.
	www.ballparkwatch.com /stadiums/new/philadelphia.htm (1242 words)

	2004 Philadelphia Phillies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1894, a fire damaged most of the park and then was rebuilt.
		The rebuilt park had some new additions like increasing the capacity to 18,800 people as well as building team clubhouses.
		This stadium was originally called Shibe Park and it seated as many as 23,000 but eventually expanded to 35,000.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~jmz25/digm465/philstad.htm (326 words)

	Connie Mack Stadium \| Shibe Park
		Previously it was called Shibe Park after Ben Shibe, an A's stockholder and baseball manufacturer.
		The park had a beautiful French Renaissance tower behind home plate, which housed Mack's office.
		This was one of the many renovations done to this park that included double-decking it and adding left field stands in 1925.
	www.projectballpark.org /history/nl/shibe.html (417 words)

	Shibe Park Photos
		Shibe Park, Panoramic shot from Sept 1, 1963
		Shibe Park, Wes Covington smashes a homerun, Sept. 1, 1963
		This is a gorgeous, crisp aerial view of both Shibe Park and Baker Bowl, taken in 1929.
	www.alanluber.com /merchandise/shibeparkphotos.htm (659 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / New Fenway
		The excitement was no less than before, for Fenway Park, more than Yankee Stadium, more than Wrigley Field, more than Tiger Stadium, defines what a baseball park should be -- intimate, close to the field and players, with odd angles and a great high wall in left, and real grass.
		The museum would be designed to invoke memories of the late and lamented Ebbets Field, Polo grounds, and Shibe Park.
		Fenway Park could also be home to music concerts, outdoor plays, and other large public gatherings, all of which could help underwrite its cost and keep the National Park Service solvent.
	www.boston.com /news/packages/fenway/thepark.shtml (829 words)

	MAY, 1912 \| BaseballLibrary.com
		The Pittsburgh Filipinos, of the newly formed United States League, opens the season at vacant Exposition Park.
		Boston's Fenway Park, built at a cost of $350,000, is formally dedicated, but the White Sox take a 5—2 win before an overflow crowd.
		At Fenway Park, the second-place Red Sox take two from Washington 21—8 and 12—11.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/chronology/1912MAY.stm (1680 words)

	To Every Thing a Season: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He examines the neighborhood in North Philadelphia that was the site of Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium), home of the Philadelphia Athletics from 1909 until their departure for Kansas City in 1954, and the Phillies until their move to Veterans Stadium.
		It traces the pride the local community had in the ballpark (and the A's) during the early years of the park through the changing demographics of the neighborhood and the changing modes of transportation in America which gradually made the park (and the area around the park) unattractive to most fans.
		Also detailed is how Shibe and the neighborhood around it began to deteriorate to the point where Shibe became an abandoned, weed-filled eyesore.
	www.highboskage.com /books-plain/069102104X.html (1522 words)

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