Janet Marie Smith has no equal when it comes to ballpark planning. From the creation of Camden Yards in Baltimore to the brand-new Center Field Plaza at Dodger Stadium and Polar Park in Worcester, when her fingerprints are on a project, it turns out beautifully well.
In the photo with her is WooSox team president Charles Steinberg.
Check out our essay on her career, and get her perspective as well as thoughts about her from Dodgers President Stan Kasten and Larry Lucchino, former president of the Orioles, Padres and Red Sox. Lucchino, who has hired and re-hired Smith four times, is the one who called her “positively alien.” Read our article to find out why.
A couple of months later, Max Schleicher of ReviewTrackers informed me that they had completed their research on 36,000 user reviews by attendees of exhibition games. They summed up the findings in a wonderful paper called Voice of the Fan, which