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Seals Stadium Home Plate Found After 50 Years

San Francisco’s historic Seals Stadium may have been demolished more than 50 years ago, but thanks to Google Earth, home plate has once again been found. Former Wired editor Todd Lappin recently dug into the software’s latest rev, which contains the ability to search historical imagery. Blogging over at Laughing Squid, Lappin worked with Burrito […]

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San Francisco's historic Seals Stadium may have been demolished more than 50 years ago, but thanks to Google Earth, home plate has once again been found.

Former Wired editor Todd Lappin recently dug into the software's latest rev, which contains the ability to search historical imagery. Blogging over at Laughing Squid, Lappin worked with Burrito Justice to determine that home plate of the stadium — which put Joe DiMaggio and San Francisco baseball in general on the map — can be traced to the PC aisle of an Office Depot on 16th Street.

Lappin even marked the spot with an X before scouting out the other bases:

With home plate found, the rest of the old Seals Stadium diamond was straightforward to identify: First base is now the entryway just inside the door of Office Depot. Second base is now by the first table in the seating area next to the Starbucks kiosk at Safeway. Third base is a food aisle — right between the refrigerated tortillas and the frozen pizzas — deeper in the supermarket.

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