i just remember those awful stadiums the national league had in the 60’s and 70’s...three rivers..riverfront..st.louis..astro dome etc..you could literally bounce the ball off the turf like a basketball. the ball ricocheted thru the infield like a gunshot...lol
I remember the same sort of thing at the Olympic Stadium (Big Owe) in Montreal. Shame that Jarry Park was not much of a better place to house an MLB team.
I belong to a “Lost Ballparks” group on Facebook and it is interesting to read about and see photos of places like Crosley, Connie Mack (Shibe), Forbes, Sportsman’s, and others that were replaced by about 1970 because they were getting older and smaller and some (like Connie Mack in particular) were in neighbourhoods that were getting crummy and run down and dangerous to be in.
It seems though that the newer (”multipurpose”) ballparks with the Astroturf and built on land that used to be out in the countryside only a few years earlier took away some important things about how the game used to be played and watched (kind of like how helmets in the NHL detracted from the game in terms of player visibility and fan identification and encouraging more careless and deliberate behaviour with stickwork related offences from the players).