Ballpark
Greenwillow Books (March 23, 1998)
Reading age : 5 - 8 years
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Ballpark
To research this book I went to games at Fenway Park, Camden Yards, and Jacob’s Field. I saw inside Shea Stadium’s locker room. Mostly I took the subway up to Yankee Stadium and watched games and sketched. There’s something about the rhythms of baseball that lends itself to sketching. In college I wrote my senior essay about Ebbets Field (the Brooklyn home of the Dodgers), and how important a ballpark can be to its community. In this book I looked at the community inside the ballpark: groundskeepers, trainers, umpires, and fans.
