Fields of Dreams: A Guide to Visiting and Enjoying All 30 Major League Ballparks

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Summary: "Fields" is a travel guide to big league cities & ballparks.
Review: Over the past few seasons I travelled to every major league city to see a ballgame. "Fields" allows me to share my experiences at every park and point out each city's outstanding attractions, nightlife, hotels, and restaurants. Enjoy!

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Summary: A must-have for baseball fans of all ages!!
Review: This book has it all! Fields of Dreams lists all the best major league ballback attributes, area attractions and nightlife entertainment establishments. It even describes a little history about each ballpark. Ahuja obviously wrote this book for everyone's enjoyment - even if you're not a fan!

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Summary: Mixture bag of stadium and tourist industy
Review: This book proves to be mildly informative about the main subject matter, the baseball stadiums of the major league. However, I believed that the author spent too much time being a tour guide of the city of each stadium instead of the stadium itself. I wanted a lot more information about the stadium of each city instead of the city itself. I can find other books on the city if I need to. I don't need to read about it in a book I thought would be about major league baseball stadiums.

Each stadium is given a very short review and rest of the chapter centered around the sights, sound and places to stay. I really wanted to know bit more about the stadium, best seats, worst seats, food, and that sort of thing.

I got the 2001 edition and it does feel dated already. I think this book have been effectively replaced by "The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip" book that came out this year and contain a huge wealth of information about each stadium and its suroundings. But in that book, the stadium and baseball remains the main focus; in "Fields of Dreams", it seem to be the city. In many ways, "Fields of Dreams" should have read like the "The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip" but the author wasn't ambitious enough to do it right.

Overall, it does have useful information but they are rather minor and its dated. The "other" book have effective replaced it so I don't see why any one wants to buy this book any more.