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"Take Me Out To The Ball Park" by
Lowell Reidenbaugh features profiles of
the great major league ballparks, with
illustrated drawings and photographs.
Ballpark drawings were done by sports
cartoonists Amadee Wohlschlaeger, and
Gene Mack. Amadee, as he signs his
work, was a St. Louis Post
Dispatch cartoonist. His work appeared
frequently on the pages of the Sporting
News. The work of Gene Mack, a
cartoonist for the Boston Globe for 35
years, was published in a book by the
Sporting News in 1947.
The book captures the romance of a major league ballpark. No two are
alike, and each has a character of it's
own. Each revives an outburst of
memories. Every ball park reminds
someone - a schoolboy playing hooky, an
industrial giant on an extended lunch
break or a housewife on an escape from
domestic drudgery - of a memorable
event when a man and a moment met in
unforgettable achievement, a
game-winning home run, a glittering
no-hitter, or a spectacular catch.
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