Baseball is supposed to be the National Pastime but it is the only game where all teams do not play on an equal playing field. With thirty plus teams you have thirty stadiums all with different dimensions. The park in Philadelphia has been deemed a "bandbox" by some. The old Polo Grounds where Willie Mays roamed was 483 feet to dead center field when he made his famous over the shoulder catch on Vic Wertz. Now we read that the New York METS will be bringing in the right center field fence eleven feet better to suit their sluggers for it is Home Runs that put people in the seats. There is precedent for this as in 1947 the Pittsburgh Pirates brought their left field fence in thirty feet to welcome Hank Greenberg back from WWII - the press called the area Greenberg Gardens - and later "Kiner's Korner" for slugger Ralph Kiner. So let the games begin!
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