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For a more detailed account of Armour Field, see City Baseball Magic. Armour Field and environs was designed in 1987-88 as a demonstration project
for the Ballparks Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
As a "counter-project" alternative to the Chicago White Sox plans for
what became New Comiskey Park, Armour Field sought to illustrate that a
compact-footprint neighborhood ballpark could provide fan comforts and generate
industry standard revenues in an intimate ballpark setting that also functioned
as part of a lively neighborhood environment. The stadium boom of the 1990s
brought baseball back from suburbia into cities, but more as entertainment zone
"anchors" than as components of city neighborhoods. |
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