Stealing Home: How American Society Preserves Major League Baseball Stadiums, Ballparks, & Fields

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dc.contributor.advisorNarath, Alberten_US
dc.contributor.authorGrilc, Brandonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-17T16:17:02Z
dc.date.available2014-10-17T16:17:02Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-17
dc.description.abstractThis study focuses on a cultural phenomenon that is driven by the demolition of Major League Baseball stadiums, ballparks, and fields. Prompted by their inherent role in the evolution of the sport and the inadequacies of the existing historic preservation framework, this study examines how American society preserves this utilitarian form, after their demolition, through observations, data collection, and analysis. In doing so, this study exposes that Major League Baseball stadiums, ballparks, and fields are preserved through the use of nine overlapping preservation methods, which memorialize five significant features. However, though these preservation methods do not prevent Major League Baseball stadiums from being demolished, they do illustrate how our society alternatively preserves historically and culturally significant resources when the existing historic preservation framework is rendered incompatible.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/18547
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectArchitectural historyen_US
dc.subjectBaseballen_US
dc.subjectHistoric preservationen_US
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.subjectSportsen_US
dc.subjectStadium architectureen_US
dc.titleStealing Home: How American Society Preserves Major League Baseball Stadiums, Ballparks, & Fieldsen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies Program: Historic Preservationen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.S.en_US

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