That stadium is Oriole Park at Camden Yards.Ĭamden Yards does not earn the ubiquitous adoration that it used to. In fact, it might fairly be said that only one stadium built in the past 30 years has succeeded in transcending the broader American public’s strike-zone-sized attention span. This can be disconcerting-most stadiums make the news damn near every day when they’re being built, or when politicians and team owners are haggling over whether to build them in the first place-yet it’s generally the rule. They fall out of fashion or out of favor, fail to make an impression or, worse, bore from the start. Of course, most new stadiums lose their sheen in due time.
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Now this, we say, as we trundle wide-eyed through the pristine silver turnstiles for the first time, is the beginning of something new. This is why all new parks, when they finally open to fans, receive heraldic welcomes. Fans whose teams play in stadiums that are not yet so historic, meanwhile, often treat the prospect that they one day might as a reason for hope. Fans whose teams play in stadiums that are iconic-Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, Dodger Stadium-tend to regard them with an almost religious sort of reverence. It’s perhaps by virtue of this fact that baseball stadiums also inspire in fans a unique and very personal kind of devotion and pride. They’re expressions, in this way, about nothing less than how we live. But so, too, do baseball stadiums-through design quirks, topographical accommodations, structural evocations of local history-represent characteristics particular to the cities and time periods in which they were constructed. As spiritually public places containing “a garden” at their heart, ballparks evoke a tension between “the rural and the urban”-the Jeffersonian preference for the pastoral the Hamiltonian impulse toward the industrial-that has “existed throughout American history.” Done right, they evince what beauty that tension can produce, the creative potential of this American conflict. Their utility is both more dynamic and more poetic as writer and critic Paul Goldberger put it in Ballpark: Baseball in the American City, baseball stadiums are the “ultimate American metaphor.” The metaphor works on at least two levels. Join us and help West Bay Rotary make the Midcoast better one family, one child, one person at a time.Baseball stadiums are never only about baseball. Net proceeds benefit charities and non-profit organizations. You get to try them all and vote for your favorite. Local restaurants will serve up their best chili at the annual West Bay Rotary Chili Challenge and you can be a judge.
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Help West Bay Rotary choose the best chili in the Midcoast. Doors open at 4:00 pm at 16 Bay View Hotel Banquet Room. National Toboggan Championships weekend on Saturday, February 9th! Adults $10 and Children $6. The 2019 Chili Challenge will be held during the U.S. Support from our sponsors is an important part of our events and helps us raise money to give back to charities and non-profit organizations. Thank you to Barbara Collins Heard and Camden Accommodations for being a SILVER annual sponsor of West Bay Rotary events, including the annual Chili Challenge.Ĭelebrating over 20 years as Midcoast Maine’s premier vacation rental agency and property management firm, Camden Accommodations represents over 60 vacation rental properties on the ocean, lakes and villages of Midcoast Maine.Ĭamden Accommodations looks forward to assisting you to find the perfect setting for your vacation, whether you choose to stay in the heart of one of Maine’s quaint villages, a large home on the water or a rustic camp on a lake or pond.