This is a spectacular idea … if you’re me, a design junkie + baseball nerd.
As the great baseball novelist WP Kinsella noted in The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, there’s no rule stating that the foul lines end at the outfield wall. Technically, they run on forever, making just about all of America part of a baseball field. This print maps the foul lines of every major league stadium, letting them run to infinity.
But I’m just not completely feeling the design of this print. Pastel tones, fading into mist feels too contemporary (web design-y?) for a tribute to the grass, dirt, brick, steel stadiums that host a thoroughly 19th century game.
(via Pop Chart Lab)
