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Jun 25, 2023
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As baseball and other sports stadium operators sought the coverage and publicity provided by newspapers and magazines in the late 1880s, they offered advantageous, separate seating to reporters. Such areas became known as press box, with the first mentions of press boxes at football games coming at the 1892 Yale-Princeton game at Manhattan Field in New York and the 1893 Harvard-Yale game in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Like all other elements of stadiums, press boxes evolved, becoming fancier and more comfortable, so let's look at some old press boxes.

(1911 Missouri yearbook)

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