i am susan reyburn, curator of the exhibition baseball americana. today we are going to look at this is a collaboration the library did with mlb baseball, espn. today we are going to look at the second half of the exhibition which looks at baseball thematically. including the experience at the ballpark, business of baseball, how immigrants and immigration have affected baseball, and winning. this is our section on at the ballpark. we have an original fire insurance map. what it shows is that washington, d.c. s original baseball stadium, griffith stadium, was at the heart of the urban community. it s next to a number of businesses and residences. we have a college of dentistry, a hospital, and a lot of road houses. fans would gather to sit on the offs and watch a free game baseball. what these baseball insurance maps do is show that these stadiums are right in the midst of their community, not out in some ideally pastor, and we idyllic pasture. this map was updated in
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