Original center field distance of parks built between 1909 and 1913: Shibe Park: 509’ Forbes Field: 435’ League Park: 460’ Comiskey Park: 420’ Griffith Stadium: 421’ Tiger Stadium: 425’ Crosley Field: 420’ Ebbets Field: 508’ Fenway Park: 488’ ..And this was the dead ball era.
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@MLBcathedrals League Park had super crazy dimensions: LF: 385 ft CF: 460 ft RF : 290 ft, but had a 40 ft high fence, not a wall that the ball would bounce off of (Green Monster is on 37 ft high
@johnwallencheck @MLBcathedrals 45 feet high. It is mistakenly listed at 40 in several sources.