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Written by Jim Rednour
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Saturday, 02 January 2010 |
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Some baseball pundits have credited the design of ballparks such as: old Yankee Stadium in New York, Chicago’s Wrigley Field, Boston’s Fenway Park and Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park for the prosperity at the plate that power hitters including Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Ernie Banks enjoyed over the years, and for the dominance of today’s home run heroes like Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Howard (insert link to Chasing 500).
old Yankee Stadium in New York
Chicago’s Wrigley Field
Boston’s Fenway Park
Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park
Take a peek at the number of home runs hit in MLB
parks during the 2009 season and you will see that Chicago’s US
Cellular Field is in the Top 6 with an average of 2.4 home runs per
game. By comparison, Busch Stadium in St. Louis averaged 1.5 home runs
per game during 2009. A fact that hasn’t hurt Albert Pujols who
finished 2009 with a MLB best 47 blasts, while batting .327 and
knocking in 135 RBIs. See Chasing 500 insert link to article once it’s
on site. |
