Sentence examples for smaller ballpark from inspiring English sources

The Cubs had moved across town from their smaller ballpark, now known as Wrigley Field, to seek greater attendance at a larger park.

The team is on pace to sell twice as many individual game tickets this season compared with last year, when accounting for the smaller ballpark, Newman said.

The Yankees sold out 58 times at their old and larger stadium in 2008, but only seven times in the smaller ballpark last season and just 12 times so far this year.

Pitching in cooler weather, at night, in a smaller ballpark and against a more powerful Yankees lineup will present Martinez with new challenges — but none that he did not encounter during intense meetings as a member of the Red Sox.

The gasoline bills and grilled salmon meals will surely disappear from the $40 million provided by the public to help the Yankees, an immensely profitable private enterprise, plan a new, smaller ballpark with even more expensive tickets.

The new, slightly smaller ballpark, with about 50,000 seats and 50 luxury boxes, would be built in Macombs Dam Park, just to the north of the existing stadium, an American sports shrine.

"Fluctuating strike zones, stronger hitters leaning out over the plate, smaller ballparks.

Part of it is a lack of talent and part is that the smaller ballparks favor hitters".

Because of a wide range of possible reasons -- the shrunken strike zone, smaller ballparks, stronger hitters -- pitchers became more passive.

A left-handed hitter with a slightly unorthodox upright stance, he has benefited from the smaller ballparks and slower fastballs in Japan.

Whether a result of power pitchers, smaller ballparks or steroids, recent years have had the most home runs in history, but also the most strikeouts.