Ballpark: Camden Yards and the Building of an American Dream

Abstract

“Everybody thinks because a guy’s a bricklayer, [and] you work with your back, you’re stupid,” Charlie Smith says with a shake of the head one August day, and while it is true that he is broad backed, and possesses a handshake that features bunches of muscle and tendon born of decades of hefting the hardened-clay blocks, Charlie Smith is also not lacking in intelligence. He talks a great deal, of a great many things, most of them made of brick, in the confident tones of a man giving a lecture. Men will do this when they’ve practiced one craft for thirty years and have had ample time to think about it.

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