British Football’s Greatest Grounds: One Hundred Must-See Football Venues
Have you ever wanted to visit the most scenic, historic or important football grounds in Britain, but weren’t sure where to start or what to include? In British Football’s Greatest Grounds, Mike Bayly offers a bucket list of places to watch football in England, Wales and Scotland as chosen by fans across the world. This first-of-its-kind book introduces the reader to a diverse and often breathtaking range of Britain’s football venues. In addition to the oldest, biggest and highest our nation has to offer, it covers lesser-known grounds nestling next to castles, beaches, churches and mountain ranges, as well as modern Premier League stadiums in major cities. Featuring beautiful images taken by acclaimed sports photographers, along with written contributions from respected industry figures, British Football’s Greatest Grounds is part guide, part love letter to the history, people and places that showcase the best of our unique football landscape. It’s sure to leave you planning a future football trip.
The Ultimate Database for Worldwide Sports Stadium Book and Publications
Do you have a favorite Stadium or Arena? Those palaces from your childhood. All of the stories your family and friends tell occurred in these shrines of sports. Your favorite teams’ home stadium, the venues they visited. There is plenty to see and and learn, especially if you are planning a sports road trip for your Bucket List. Here are references to over 15,000 books and publications covering sports stadiums all over the world.Stadiums for baseball, cricket, American football, Australian football, Canadian football, soccer, rugby, ancient sports, basketball, hockey, horse racing, motorsports, Olympics, boxing, wrestling, tennis, dog racing…and many other sports.Books listed by sport, team, league, conference, or locationAlso includes books on special topics such as stadium planning, economics, building, history, stadium workers, stadium food, groundskeeping… and many other stadium issues.
Stadium Buildings: Construction and Design Manual
From ancient stadium construction to a design object of the 21st century: sports arenas have long been turned into places hosting a global media spectacle. For a few hours or days, colossuses made of steel and concrete transform into colorful festival locations. Since the first ancient stadium in Greek Olympia, the typology of stadium construction has undergone a profound transformation: due to changes in requirements and demand, an urban entertainment center has emerged from the simple running track in the countryside. Through selected examples of projects, this volume from the Construction and Design Manual series illustrates the development of stadiums in relation to building typologies. It provides a basic manual of stadium design using basic planning parameters. Drawings, detailed plans, and large-format photos facilitate an understanding of the carefully selected examples and are used to analyze stadium construction in terms of its construction history, planning and architecture.”
Football Stadiums: A Guide to Professional and Top College Stadiums
Football Stadiums tells the stories of about 150 of the great stadiums — active and retired — across the country that have hosted pro football or college football play. They are home to current NFL franchises and the best college teams and a source of endless fascination, research, discussion, and even pilgrimages. To serious fans, they are hallowed ground.
Modern Coliseum: Stadiums and American Culture
From the legendary Ebbets Field in the heart of Brooklyn to the amenity-packed Houston Astrodome to the “retro” Oriole Park at Camden Yards, stadiums have taken many shapes and served different purposes throughout history of American sports culture. In the early twentieth century, a new generation of stadiums arrived, located in the city center, easily accessible to the public, and offering affordable tickets that drew mixed crowds of men and women from different backgrounds. But in the successive decades, planners and architects turned sharply away from this approach.
In Modern Coliseum, Benjamin D. Lisle tracks changes in stadium design and culture since World War II. These engineered marvels channeled postwar national ambitions while replacing aging ballparks typically embedded in dense urban settings. They were stadiums designed for the “affluent society”—brightly colored, technologically expressive, and geared to the car-driving, consumerist suburbanite. The modern stadium thus redefined one of the city’s more rambunctious and diverse public spaces.
Olympic Stadiums: People, Passion, Stories
With a wealth of archival images, stadium stories, and reminiscences by athletes, supporters, and those who worked on the building and organisation, this new volume is a richly illustrated souvenir of the changing design and purpose of Olympic stadia over the past century.
Ballparks: A Journey Through the Fields of the Past, Present, and Future
If you love baseball and the venerable stadiums it’s played in, you need this definitive history and guide to Major League ballparks of the past, present, and future.
With a tear-out checklist to mark ballparks you’ve visited and those on your bucket list, Ballparks takes you inside the histories of every park in the Major Leagues, with hundreds of photos, stories, and stats about:
Storied parks like Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, and Dodger Stadium. Fan favorites AT&T Park, Camden Yards, PNC Park, Safeco Field, and so much more. Forgotten treasures like Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis, and all five parks of the Detroit Tigers. New stadiums like the Atlanta Braves’ SunTrust Park, the Minneapolis Twins’ Target Field, and New York’s Yankee Stadium and Citifield. More than 40 other major league parks that tell the story of the national pastime through the lens of the fields the players call home
No baseball fan’s collection is complete without this up-to-date tome.
My Life in Yankee Stadium: 40 Years As a Vendor and Other Tales of Growing Up Somewhat Sane in The Bronx
“My Life in Yankee Stadium” is a collection of stories and anecdotes from a vendor who started working at Yankee Stadium in 1970.
Beginning at the age of fifteen tossing peanuts at a New York Giants football game, Stewart J. Zully vended at more than 2500 events, including playoff and World Series games, no-hitters, a Muhammad Ali heavyweight fight, a visit from the Pope, and, of course, the legendary Red Sox-Yankee rivalry. Here is a personal look at a vendor’s life straight from the basement of the stadium to his other life in show business.
Ironically, a commercial he appeared in won an Emmy and triggered a long-lost romance with a former stadium employee, whom he hadn’t seen in twenty-four years. She is now his wife.
“My Life in Yankee Stadium” contains unusual encounters with James Gandolfini, Jack Nicholson, Mel Brooks, and many others, whether on a movie set or in the stands at the ballpark. The quirky vendors, the bizarre assortment of fans, and the character of New York City itself all come alive as Zully gives the unique perspective that only an insider has.
Filled with exclusive photos, “My Life in Yankee Stadium” is a look at New York from the sixties to the present day, taking readers behind the scenes at the most famous stadium in all of sports.
Lost Ballparks
With vintage photographs, this book explores classic ballparks of American and National League teams that are no more, such as Boston’s Grand Pavilion, home of the Beaneaters, and Huntington Avenue Grounds, one-time home of the Red Sox. Other cities include Atlanta, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Diego, Seattle, Tampa, Toronto, and Washington.
365: The World’s Greatest Football Grounds
Have you ever wondered where the world’s most breathtaking, historic, or important soccer grounds can be found? 365: The World’s Greatest Football Grounds offers a bucket list of 365 of the most dazzling and distinctive grounds on the planet, spread across five continents. The book features a vast array of spectacular photos showcasing ancient stadiums, famous soccer temples, grounds with stunning architecture, and others set against mind-blowing backdrops. From Buenos Aires’ fabulous La Bombonera (a microcosm of Argentine life) to Fulham’s homely Craven Cottage (with its wooden stand dating from 1905), to Olympiastadion Berlin (built for Hitler’s Olympics in 1936) to stadia built next to churches, castles, mountains, lakes, oceans, and idyllic countryside, 365 leaves no stone unturned in its quest to bring you the world’s most remarkable grounds. Part guide, part love letter to the individual histories and cultures that comprise world soccer, 365 is sure to leave you planning a future pilgrimage.
