Dinn Mann is the executive vice president for MLB’s advanced media. He’s also the grandson of Judge Roy Hofheinz, the driving force behind the effort to get an expansion baseball team in Houston and then, later, the man who build the Astrodome.
In the runup to yesterday’s failed effort to get taxpayers to fund a renovation of the place, Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post spoke with Mann, who was hoping against hope that the Astrodome would be saved:
“People who aren’t from Houston don’t understand — probably can’t understand — that to us, this is more than just a stadium ... this is our Golden Gate Bridge, our Empire State Building.”
A reminder that, to someone, every ballpark is a cathedral. Every ballpark is magical. To Mann, it was the Astrodome. To me it was Tiger Stadium. To someone, somewhere, it could even be Tropicana Field.
