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Defunct Major League Baseball venues

  • Shea StadiumWilliam A. Shea Municipal Stadium opened on the 17th of April 1964, after twenty-nine months of construction and $28.5 million in spending.
  • Hard Rock StadiumIn 1976, the city of Miami demanded a fourfold increase in rent for the Dolphins' existing home at the Orange Bowl. Team founder Joe Robbie decided to build…
  • Olympic Stadium (Montreal)French architect Roger Taillibert arrived in Montreal with a radical idea for the 1976 Summer Olympics. He proposed an elaborate facility featuring a…
  • Candlestick ParkThe land at Candlestick Point was purchased by local contractor Charles Harney in 1952 for a quarry and industrial development.