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Fans on rooftop watching game in Shibe Park, 1914 World Series
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Fans on rooftop watching game in Shibe Park, 1914 World Series.

Credit: The Sporting News

For decades, fans watched the A's play in Shibe Park from the rooftops of rowhouses that stood beyond the 12-foot right field wall. Tired of the lost revenues, in 1935 the A's raised the wall to 50 feet and ended this great Philadelphia tradition.

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