Is this the ultimate Stadia man cave or a museum?
A few months ago, I wrote an SCD article about the liquidation of some 90 percent of my baseball memorabilia collection, and its resurrection as a team-specific man cave, that being the Yankees. And it has gotten some great responses from our loyal readers, who are proud of their own collections.
As I said last time, the cornerstone for the old collection was Stadia — seats, signs, turnstiles, and other related fixtures and artifacts from a given ballpark. These can take the forms of everything from railings to urinals, from programs to hot dog vendor carry boxes, from ticket stubs to ushers’ uniforms, and everything in between, including bricks, dirt, and Astroturf!
The cool thing about Stadia is, well, that it’s , and displays well. The problem, however, is that many of these items are bulky and take up space. In my former home, I had on display some 25 vintage stadium seats, almost all of them wood and iron models, as well as an early 1900s Shibe Park turnstile. And I needed all of my basement’s square footage to fit them around the perimeter of the room, whose 7-foot walls were decorated with framed prints of ballparks as well as bats, gloves, nodders, autographed balls, etc. Let me tell you, by the time of its liquidation there wasn’t a square foot
