Looking at the aerial shots of Pittsburgh's beautiful riverfront PNC Park during Sunday's MLB opening day broadcast, many longtime baseball fans can't help but think about what an improvement that facility is over the old dump named Three Rivers Stadium.
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But a decade before that much-maligned "cookie-cutter" stadium was even built, Pittsburgh had plans for a baseball stadium so unusual, and so futuristic in appearance, it might still be standing had it been built.
Plans for a new Pittsburgh Stadium first surfaced in 1958, showing a multipurpose facility built on top of the Monongahela River.