How Do You Build A Mini Baseball Stadium?
Baseball is America’s national pastime. Creating mini baseball stadium replicas is a great way to pass time and show off your love of the sport. Baseball stadiums consist of a field, bleachers, scoreboard, lights, dugouts and areas where concessions are sold, announcers sit and fans enjoy large parties. Less detail will need to go into a high school style mini baseball stadium as opposed to a major league team’s stadium. Keep that in mind when first starting out with such a hobby. Obtain an aerial photograph of the stadium you would like to create a miniature of. If you don’t have a specific stadium in mind, any picture of a stadium will do. Draw the outline of your field onto the center of the plywood. A good scale to use is 1 inch for every 32 feet of stadium space. Start with the field and draw out and around. It is 127.3 feet from home plate to second base. Therefore your distance should be about 4 inches from home plate to second base. The Baseball Almanac provides measurements of
