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Article: SAFECO FIELD EVOKES CHARM OF WRIGLEY, FENWAY.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 26, 1998
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Baltimore's Camden Station was a stop on Abraham Lincoln's inauguration and funeral trips in the 1860s. In the 1990s, it was turned into Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
At Yankee Stadium, during batting practice or other quiet moments, you can hear trains beyond right field. The No. 4, rattling up from Manhattan to a stop at 161st Street, is visible through a sliver between the center field bleachers and right field grandstand. The sound is a part of the stadium.
It's the same way at Wrigley Field in Chicago, where the El train rumbles into Addison Street Station a half-block behind Sammy Sosa.
And so it will be at the Mariners' future home in ...