@jay jay posted:I love baseball (especially "live" at a stadium), but don't have a park on my layout. You guys inspire me. I love baseball despite the White Sox breaking my young heart in 1959. Nevertheless, I got to see so many "greats" at Comiskey in my early years, including Maris and Mantle swinging bats during their Home Run Derby season, maybe 1961? (IIRC).
As an 8 year old obsessed with the Yankees, the White Sox (Luis Apariccio, Nelly Fox, Billy Pierce, etc.) broke my heart in 1959 by winning the American League Pennant!
Building a baseball field on your layout is so easy. All you need is Woodland Scenics Iron Ore Fine Ballast (reddish brown dirt for the base paths) and Blended Turf or Fine Turf for the infield and outfield grass. Then, little pieces of white cardboard for home plate, the bases and the pitching rubber, and glued together Popsicle Sticks painted blue, green or brown for the bleachers or stands for the fans. Also chicken wire or similar material to make the fences and painted cardboard with numbers for the scoreboard.
Now, the next thing you need is O Scale players. I believe Scenis Express has some nice plastic ones, but the best, IMO, were made by Kramer Products (they are made of metal and beautifully painted). I got my Kramer Products players in the mid-1990s from The Choo Choo Barn (a phenomenol model train store in the York or Strasburg, PA area, and another Kramer Priducts team of players from TRAINZ 2 years ago.
Lionel Billboards are also nice to have in your ball park. Arnold
Don't forget the light towers so you can have night g as mes. LOL
