{"id":317730,"date":"2026-08-10T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317730\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:50:07","slug":"new-yorks-great-lost-ballparks-zoom-presentation-aug-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317730\/","title":{"rendered":"New York&#8217;s Great Lost Ballparks Zoom Presentation Aug 13th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Yorks-Great-Lost-Ballparks-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-136846 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Yorks-Great-Lost-Ballparks-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"New York's Great Lost Ballparks\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-136846 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/New-Yorks-Great-Lost-Ballparks-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"New York's Great Lost Ballparks\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4fJlqyC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York\u2019s Great Lost Ballparks<\/a> (SUNY Press, 2022) by Bob Carlin tells the story of New York playing grounds and ballparks of yesteryear. Organized by region and city, the book includes a complete list of New York\u2019s historic ballparks in an easy-to-read guidebook format.<\/p>\n<p>Each listing includes the name and location of the park, the years in operation, the names of the professional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/baseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">baseball<\/a> clubs that called it their home, the park\u2019s seating capacity, and a fun fact or two that distinguishes each locale. <\/p>\n<p>More famous ballparks include an extended history that examines the importance of the field in the annals of the game. The book is richly illustrated with historic photos of the parks and players and ten maps of key locations (including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/new-york-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a>\u2018s boroughs).<\/p>\n<p>Special attention is given to locales that hosted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/negro-leagues-baseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Negro League<\/a> and all-women teams.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming Zoom Event<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, August 13, from 7 until 8 pm Carlin will give a presentation on Zoom to discuss some of his favorite discoveries, and share more about the great lost ballparks across New York State. The event is hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidemuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Saratoga County History Center<\/a>.\u00a0Register <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidemuseum.networkforgood.com\/events\/102480-experts-next-door-new-york-s-great-lost-ballparks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidemuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read more New York Baseball History.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s Great Lost Ballparks (SUNY Press, 2022) by Bob Carlin tells the story of New York playing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-317730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}