Chris Wilson-Smith Published 7 minutes ago

SkyDome under construction in downtown Toronto, June, 1988.

Millions of people around the world are watching two of baseball’s best teams battle under the sport’s brightest lights. For many, it will also be the most they’ve seen of the stage.

Even if only for a few seconds – aerials during the anthems, cutaways between innings – the home of the Blue Jays will get a spotlight it hasn’t held in decades.

When it opened in 1989, the SkyDome was the first of its kind: a stadium with a fully retractable roof, imagined almost without precedent. As those who helped build it would probably agree, it was far from perfect – but that’s hardly the point. Not now, when building anything of that scale has become a political and economic flashpoint in t

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