A self-proclaimed, “baseball fan with a camera,” Quentin Emery Johnson combined his love of the game and big league ballparks with his love for photography. Traveling over 170,000 miles (nearly seven orbits around the earth!), to 299 games, dozens of ballpark tours in 390 days of travel to photograph 32 Major League ballparks used during the 2010s decade. Inside, fans will enjoy a stunning pictorial tour of each ballpark. It features over 1,300 color photographs, of which 91 are full page, capturing their character and inherent beauty. It is packed with up-to-date informative facts both rookie and veteran ballpark devotees will appreciate.
Additionally, the book takes fans to the former sites of the beloved “classic” ballparks, built at the turn of the twentieth century, 1909-1923, exploring what’s happening at each location nearly a century later and highlights their illustrious big league histories. Bringing it home are several historic fields, grounds, and ballparks the author had the good fortune to visit and one he played at in his youth, Hamtramck Stadium, are presented. The others include two fields of the oldest recorded ball games and two of the oldest ballparks still in use in North America, the sites of the first World Series, and more. . . “Let’s Play Ball!”