Program Description
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Pittsburgh has an incredible baseball history with great players, teams, and historic moments, but few realize that Pittsburgh has often been in the lead in ballpark design and development. Author Mark Fatla chronicles the nine ballparks that hosted major league baseball in Pittsburgh between 1876 and the present, including the Negro Leagues.
Historic photographs illustrate design and construction phases, the major changes as parks expanded and aged, and eventually their demolition.
About the presenter:
As a young attorney, Mark authored more than 200 Federal Court opinions, including several in one of Pittsburgh’s most important civil rights cases. Mark has been Executive Director of several community development non-profits over a 25 year career. He is a lifelong baseball fan and lives on the Northside in an 1870 house just a short walk from the site of 4 of the historic ballparks he’ll discuss.
Books will be for sale.