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Adams, K. S. “Bud”
Addie, Bob
African American attendance at stadiums
Ebbets Field
Sportsman’s Park
Anaheim Stadium: construction
scoreboard
stadium club
suites
Angell, Roger: Buff Stadium
Busch Memorial Stadium
Candlestick Park
Comiskey Park
Dodger Stadium
Ebbets Field
Houston Astrodome
New York Mets fan culture
Polo Grounds
Riverfront Stadium
Shea Stadium
St. Louis fan culture
Sportsman’s Park (Busch Stadium)
Three Rivers Stadium
Anheuser-Busch
Arledge, Roone
Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City): construction
scoreboard and instant replay
suites
Ashburn, Richie
AstroTurf
Atlanta Braves
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium: construction
scoreboard
Baltimore
Harborplace
identity
racial geography
stadium proposal. See also Baltimore Colts; Baltimore Orioles; Camden Yards; Memorial Stadium
Baltimore Colts
Baltimore Orioles
racism
“Battle of the Sexes”
Belgrad, Herb
“big-league” status
Bolles, John
Borchert Field (Milwaukee)
Boston Braves: television rights. See also Braves Field; Perini, Lou
Boston Red Sox. See also Fenway Park
Braves Field (Boston)
attendance. See also Boston Braves; Perini, Lou
Breslin, Jimmy
Brooklyn
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Crown Heights
economic decline
racial geography
sites for proposed new stadium
suburbanization
Brooklyn Dodgers
fan culture
Brown, Loretta Parker
Buff Stadium/Busch Stadium (Houston)
Busch, August “Gussie”
Busch Memorial Stadium (St. Louis)
artificiality of
cost and financing
criticism
description
planning
scoreboard
spaciousness
stadium club
synthetic grass
women as ushers
Busch Stadium III (St. Louis)
Camden Yards (Baltimore)
luxury suites
Candlestick Park
attendance
costs and financing
criticism
enclosure
Harney, Charles
stadium club
Stadium, Inc. See also Bolles, John
Caray, Harry
Cashmore, John. See also Brooklyn; Ebbets Field
Celler, Emmanuel
Charlotte (North Carolina)
Christopher, George
Citi Field (Queens)
class distinction. See also Busch Memorial Stadium, stadium club; gentrification of the stadium; luxury boxes and suites; stadium clubs and restaurants
Cleveland
Collier’s
Colt Stadium (Houston)
criticism
women as ushers (Triggerettes)
women as waitresses
Comiskey Park I (Chicago)
intimacy
scoreboard
Comiskey Park II (Chicago)
“cookie cutter” stadiums. See standardization of stadiums
Continental League
Coors Field (Denver)
Cosell, Howard
costs and financing of stadiums. See also specific stadiums
Cotton Bowl (Dallas)
Creamer, Robert
Crosley Field (Cincinnati)
Cullinan, Craig
Daley, Arthur
Dallas Cowboys
fan culture
Davis, Dick
Denver, stadium proposal
Disneyland
Dodger Stadium
attendance
construction
costs and financing
fan culture
scoreboard
Ebbets, Charles
Ebbets Field
attendance
Brooklyn bum
Brooklyn identity
Chester, Hilda
children at ballpark
description
fan culture
Goodding, Gladys
intimacy
parking
physical decline
racial changes inside ballpark
racial changes outside ballpark
redesign proposal
replacement proposals
Rickards, Tex
rotunda
scoreboard
Sym-Phony band
whiteness
women at ballpark
eminent domain
Equal Rights Amendment
Estep, Preston
Exley, Frederick (A Fan’s Notes)
fan culture. See specific stadiums and teams
fans as consumers
Federal Housing Administration
Fenway Park (Boston)
Finch and Heery
Flushing Meadows (Queens)
Forbes Field (Pittsburgh)
Foxborough (Massachusetts)
Fuermann, George
Fuller, Buckminster: Brooklyn stadium proposal
Houston stadium proposal
Futurama (New York’s World Fair, 1939)
Gaedel, Eddie
Geddes, Norman Bel: attracting women to stadium
Brooklyn stadium proposals
Collier’s stadium proposal
Futurama
portable rubber stadium
stadium innovator
synthetic grass
gentrification of the stadium
Houston Astrodome
Joe Robbie Stadium
Shea Stadium
Texas Stadium
Gifford, Frank
Gillette Stadium
Goldberger, Paul
Graham, Billy
Griffith, Calvin
Griffith, Clark
Griffith Stadium
Gross, Milton
Gruen, Victor
Hall, John
Harris, Mark
Heinz Field
costs and financing
luxury spaces
scoreboard
Herskowitz, Mickey
Herzog, Noble
Hickok, James P.
Hofheinz, Roy
HOK Sport (Populous)
Camden Yards
Heinz Field
postmodern stadiums built
Houston
desegregation
governance
growth
image of city
Manned Spacecraft Center
racial geography
Shamrock Hotel
Houston Astrodome (Harris County Domed Stadium)
African American support
artificiality of
AstroTurf
“Battle of the Sexes”
class distinction
climate control
clubs and restaurants
color
construction
cost and financing
criticism
escapism
Inside the Astrodome (souvenir program)
masculinity
natural grass
nature
orientalism
planning
roof
scoreboard
site
skyboxes
suburban qualities
symbolism
themed spaces
use of past
waitresses
women as civilizing agents
women as customers
women as ushers (Spacettes)
Houston Astros/Colt .45s
Houston Oilers
Houston Sports Association (HSA)
Huber, Hunt & Nichols, Inc.
inter-city competition
postmodern development
Isaacs, Stan
Jack, Hulan
Jack Murphy Stadium (San Diego): construction
suites
Jacksonville (Florida)
Jacobs, Eli
Jacobs, Jane
John Robert Powers School
Johnson, Lyndon B.
JumboTron. See scoreboards
Kahn, Roger
Kansas City Athletics
King, Billie Jean
Kingdome (Seattle), construction
Kirksey, George
Kivett and Myers
Kleinsasser, Theodore
Klep, Rolf
Koppett, Leonard
Krummeck, Elsie
Kurkjian, Tim
Labinski, Ron
Lakefront Park (Chicago)
Landover (Maryland)
League Park (Cleveland)
Le Corbusier
Lipsyte, Robert: Candlestick Park
Colts Stadium
Dodger Stadium
Hofheinz Roy
New York Mets fan culture
New York Yankees fan culture
Polo Grounds
Shea Stadium
Los Angeles
Chavez Ravine
Los Angeles Coliseum
Louisiana Superdome (New Orleans): construction
scoreboard
suites
Lucchino, Larry
luxury boxes and suites
Anaheim Stadium
Arrowhead Stadium
Camden Yards
criticism
effects on audience and players
Heinz Field
Houston Astrodome
Jack Murphy Stadium
Metrodome
PNC Park
Rich Stadium
Louisiana Superdome
Texas Stadium
Three Rivers Stadium
Veterans Stadium. See also gentrification of the stadium
MacPhail, Larry
Maestre, Sidney
M&T Bank Stadium (Baltimore)
Manhattan, stadium proposal. See also Jack, Hulan
Marshall, George Preston
masculinity
McCarthy, Glenn
McCloskey & Company
McMurtry, Larry
Meadowlands Stadium Complex (New Jersey)
Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)
comparison to Camden Yards
Meredith, Don
Metrodome (Minneapolis)
construction
scoreboard
suites
Miami Dolphins
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Braves, fan culture
Milwaukee County Stadium
attendance
costs and financing
parking lot
Minneapolis-St. Paul
stadium proposal
Minute Maid Park (Houston)
modernist architecture and planning
criticism. See also Candlestick Park, criticism; Houston Astrodome, criticism; luxury boxes and suites, criticism; scoreboards, criticism; Shea Stadium, criticism
Monday Night Football
Moses, Robert: Brooklyn stadium proposals
commitment to automobile
Flushing Meadows Park
ghetto construction
“global engineering ethos”
Lower Manhattan Expressway
“negro problem”
Polo Grounds
Shea Stadium
Washington Square Park
Muehlebach Field (Kansas City)
Mullin, Willard
Municipal Stadium (Cleveland)
Municipal Stadium (Kansas City)
Murchison, Clint, Jr.
Namath, Joe
Nashville
National Exhibition Corporation
Nationals Park (District of Columbia)
nature: control of
disconnection from
problems with
New York Giants (baseball)
fan culture
New York Giants (football)
New York Jets/Titans
New York Mets
banners
fan culture (“New Breed”)
Mr. Met
Mother of the Mets
Throne-berry, Marv
Nixon, Richard
nostalgia
NRG Stadium (Houston)
Oakland-Alameda County Stadium
Olympic Stadium (Montreal)
O’Malley, Walter
concerns about Ebbets Field and Brooklyn
Dodger Stadium
Flushing Meadows stadium
plans for Brooklyn stadium
Moses, Robert
racial attitudes
relocation to Los Angeles
Oriard, Michael
Oriole Park at Camden Yards (Baltimore). See Camden Yards
stadiums built
Packard, Vance
Paul, Gabe
Payson, Joan
Perini, Lou
Philadelphia Phillies
Pilot Field (Buffalo)
Pittsburgh
Allegheny Conference
identity
stadium costs and financing
stadium referendum
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pittsburgh Steelers
ticket prices
Pitt Stadium (Pittsburgh)
PNC Park (Pittsburgh)
costs and financing
game experience
luxury spaces
Polo Grounds
affection for
attendance
criticism
original construction
stadium club (Met Lounge)
tenement comparison
Populous. See HOK Sport
populuxe design
postmodern stadiums
Nationals Park
authenticity
expression of place
gentrified spaces
similarities with modernist stadiums
standardization. See also Camden Yards; Heinz Field; Nationals Park; PNC Park
postmodern urbanism
Poulson, Norris
Praeger, Emil
Praeger, Richard
Praeger-Kavanagh-Waterbury
proposed stadiums (not built): Baltimore
Brooklyn
Denver
Manhattan
Minneapolis
public space, definition of
retro ballparks. See postmodern stadium
Rich Stadium (Buffalo)
suites
Rickey, Branch
Riggs, Bobby
Ripken, Cal, Jr.
Riverfront Stadium (Cincinnati): artificiality of
construction
“machine for sport”
scoreboard
synthetic grass
Robbie, Joe
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium (District of Columbia Stadium)
construction
stadium club
Robinson, Jackie
Rodney, Lester
Roman Colosseum
Rooney, Art, II
Rosensweig, Daniel
Rouse, James
Royals Stadium (Kansas City)
Rudd, Irving
Saarinen, Eero. See also St. Louis, Gateway Arch
Saigh, Fred
St. Louis
“blight”
Chapter 99
Chapter 353
Civic Center Redevelopment Corporation (CCRC)
Civic Progress, Inc.
Downtown St. Louis, Inc.
Gateway Arch
Kosciusko
Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority (LCRA)
Mill Creek Valley
Pruitt-Igoe housing project
racial geography
Riverfront Square (Disney)
stadium proposals
suburbanization
urban renewal
St. Louis Browns
St. Louis Cardinals (baseball)
St. Louis Cardinals (football)
Sale, Kirkpatrick
San Diego Stadium. See Jack Murphy Stadium
San Francisco
Schramm, Tex
Schulman, Bruce
scoreboards
Anaheim Stadium
Arrowhead Stadium
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
Busch Memorial Stadium
criticism
Dodger Stadium
Ebbets Field
Heinz Field
Houston Astrodome
instant replay
Louisiana Superdome
PNC Park
Riverfront Stadium
Shea Stadium
Veterans Stadium
Yankee Stadium
Seals Stadium (San Francisco)
seat bonds
Selig, Bud
Shea, William
Shea Stadium
class distinction
color
cost and financing
criticism
description
fan culture
fan mobility
feminization
gentrification
lack of intimacy
planning
roof
scoreboard
setting
spaciousness
suburb comparison
suburban qualities
technology
Sheard, Rod
Shecter, Leonard
Sheehan, Joseph
shopping malls
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Skydome (Toronto)
Smith, Janet Marie
Smith, Liz
Smith, Michael L.
Smith, R. E. “Bob”
Smith, Red
sport as spectacle
Sportsman’s Park/Busch Stadium (St. Louis)
attendance
description
desegregation
fan culture
Ott, Mary
renovation and renaming
site
stadium as “dowager”
Stade Olympique (Montreal). See Olympic Stadium
stadium clubs and restaurants: Anaheim Stadium
Busch Memorial Stadium
Candlestick Park
Colt Stadium
Dodger Stadium
Heinz Field
Houston Astrodome
Lakefront Park
PNC Park
Polo Grounds
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
Shea Stadium
Texas Stadium
Three Rivers Stadium
Yankee Stadium
stadium costs and financing, nationwide. See also specific stadiums
stadium experience, criticism. See also specific stadiums
standardization of stadiums
clubs and suites
“cookie-cutter” modernism
postmodern
scoreboards
stadium experience
synthetic grass
Stengel, Casey
Stone, Edward Durell
Stoneham, Horace
suburbanization
New York
St. Louis
suites. See luxury boxes and suites
Superdome (New Orleans). See Louisiana Superdome
synthetic grass. See also AstroTurf Tartan Turf; specific stadiums
Tampa
Tartan Turf
television
stadium as stage for television
Terrell, Roy
Texas Stadium (Irving): artificiality of
Circle Suites
cost and financing
Cowboy Club
fan culture
ticket prices
Thompson, Fresco
Three Rivers Stadium (Pittsburgh)
Allegheny Club
artificiality of
construction
cost
luxury suites
Tartan Turf
Tiger Stadium/Navin Field (Detroit)
Title I and slum clearance
Tucker, Raymond
Unitas, Johnny
urban “blight,”. See also St. Louis, blight
urban renewal. See Moses, Robert; Pittsburgh, Allegheny Conference; St. Louis, blight; St. Louis, urban renewal; Title I and slum clearance; urban “blight”
Veeck, Bill
Veterans Stadium (Philadelphia): construction
scoreboard
suites
video screens. See scoreboards
Wagner, Robert
Washington, D.C.
Weiss, George
women in the stadium: casual customers
civilizing agents
die-hard fans
ushers. See also Chester, Hilda; King, Billie Jean; Mother of the Mets; Payson, Joan; Ott, Mary
World’s Fair (1964)
Wrigley Field (Chicago)
Wrigley Field (Los Angeles)
Yankee Stadium
Camden Yards, inspiration for
construction
Ebbets Field, compared to
fan culture
modernization
New York Giants (football)
Polo Grounds, compared to
racial geography
scoreboard
Shea Stadium, compared to
stadium club
Young, Dick