That's one of my favorite photos of old municipal!
Still takes a second to the view of the field from Charlie O's Petting Zoo. Anyways, the left grandstand cuts off at nearly the same spot as the older stadium because the spectators in the foreground are sitting in lawn chairs or the grass. This confirms my suspicion that Koppel was duplicated at municipal (Muelbach when it 1st opened) and survived into the 70's due to lack of a flood plain and tacked on upper deck in the 50's for the A's. Even left field at Municipal was pretty shallow just like Koppel. Charlie O' hated it too because a deep right field made up 4 it. It was the opposite of Yankee Stadium.
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