Overview

This book profiles histories of stadiums and arenas in America and Canada. How they came about and how they became known.

Highlights

Great performances, upsets, anecdotes, pageantry and traditions, all factors that glorify these venues.

Pageantry

Chief Osceloa intimidates Florida State Seminoles foes with flaming spear.

Great Performances

Don Larson's perfect no-hit World Series conquest and UCLA's seven straight national basketball titles.

Upsets

Jets downing Baltimore in Super Bowl III.

Anecdotes

Wrong-way run in football, sex as the main attraction, and slinging octopus onto the rink.

Statistics

On 355 venues, 109 stories, and 86 photographs make up the book.