Bleacher Bummers: It's okay to gripe about new baseball stadiums with nostalgic styling, but do it for the right reasons

摘要

Two ballparks opened in New York City last month - one each for the Mets and the Yankees - and if you read the design press much, you've probably come across some lament about their kitschy, historicist designs. Both are modeled after ballparks of old. The new Bronx stadium harks back to the original House that Ruth Built, which opened in 1921; in Queens, the Mets unveiled an homage to Ebbets Field, erstwhile residence of the Brooklyn Dodgers before their cross-country move in 1957. The situation isn't surprising: It has become all but de rigueur for new baseball parks to trade in nostalgic design-brick facades, old-timey graphics - and equally obligatory for critics to carp about it.