From time to time members run across links with stories about the history of baseball.  One of the surest ways to browse the history of the game is the site that is dedicated to the history of the game, the Society for American Baseball Research or SABR. 

At right are two links to the SABR website.  The first is the SABR Biography Project which contains articles on the individuals, both common and famous, who have been a part of the game.  The second is to the SABR Games Project with recaps and stories about significant games in the history of baseball but, more importantly, in the lives of SABR members.

In addition, many of us remember attending games at a ball park different from the one the team we follow currently plays in.

In many ways the parks of today are far better than those, however, since we are playing games from a prior era it helps to remember, if only in our mind's eye, what the dimensions of the park were.  In some cases it matters to the history of the game.  For instance, Babe Ruth was the first player to hit a home run into (reportedly over) the center field bleachers in the Polo Grounds in 1921.  However, the configuration of the Polo Grounds was different in 1921 and the capacity was much smaller.

Andrew Clem has prepared an impressive web site with the dimensions of each of those parks that have been used in the 20th century.  At right is a link to his site where you can see what the parks looked like in those days.