The design featured a wooden frame on top of a concrete-slab foundation, with an exterior covered in gray asbestos shingles. (Steel was in short supply.) The structure violated the Cambridge fire code, but it was granted an exemption because of its temporary status.
Drafted No. 1 overall in 1980 by new Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Nelson Doubleday, Strawberry, with his 6-foot-6-inch frame, power swing and cocksure attitude, became the cornerstone of a talent foundation that also included Dwight Gooden and Lenny Dykstra.