How You Play the Game

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Stadium

Traveling around the country to visit the venues in baseball, I continually picked up on clever innovations, as well as unfortunate mistakes. The end result of these journeys was that in building our ballpark, we were flying neither blind nor solo. Others had traveled this road before—after all, stadiums large and small dotted the land. One of our primary tasks in imagining our venue was to take all that had come before and improve upon it. There is never a reason to reinvent the wheel, in any aspect of business, but there is always a reason to pause and search for something that will render that wheel smoother or shinier, ...