Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Like a pitcher, baseball fan and home brewer Ken Finnigan threw himself a change-up six years ago. The California civil engineer abandoned his desire to establish a brewery and, instead, began making beer coasters celebrating defunct major league baseball stadiums. “Beer coasters were simply the most achievable way to display and celebrate defunct baseball stadiums rather than the heavy lift of setting up a brewery to celebrate the ballparks,” Finnigan explains.
Ken Finnigan, the author of a book about sites where major league baseball stadiums once stood, ...
[+] stands at the former home of the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns.
Dan Baru The coasters are displayed in Finnigan’s new 112-page hardcover book Remembering Torn-Down Ballparks Over a Cold Beer . The book is filled with information about 34 defunct stadiums and the sites where they once stood. Finnigan initially planned — from 2015-2018 — to brew and sell beers with defunct baseball stadium names.
He applied for trademarks for the beers, but Major League Baseball was opposed, he says. His trademark attorney reached a settlement with Major League Baseball, Finnigan says, that allowed him to register beers with defunct ballpark names but prohibited him from using team logos. In early 2018, Finnigan encountered financial obstacles that blocked his brewery idea and decided to “pursue an idea to create coasters as a baseball-nostalgia and art-design.
