With Wrigley Field celebrating its 99th birthday on Tuesday amid talk of renovation, we got to thinking about which existing, iconic ballpark elements could be used to create a hybrid super park — the greatest park of them all. Using advanced Photoshop techniques, we managed to combine them to form a rendering of a stadium you definitely should build if you ever have the means to build a stadium.

These are just suggestions, but please give them some thought before you erect whatever forgettable and altogether not-iconic stadium you’re planning on building. And if you think you’ve got better ideas, we’re all ears.

Here’s what it looks like:

Let’s break it down!

THE VIEW: Nothing distinguishes a ballpark like a beautiful view of mountains (Coors Field) or a body of water (AT&T Park) or a city skyline (PNC Park) or a famous monument to westward expansion (Busch Stadium) beyond the center-field seats. The most awesome stadium should have all four, obviously.

WALLS: Fenway Park’s Green Monster in its original incarnation was built in part to prevent bystanders from seeing a free game, but it turned out having a 37-foot-high left-field wall makes for some pretty interesting breaks and bounces, and – and! – gives quirky left fielders a place to hide out during pitching changes. In Wrigley’s honor, the base of the monster and the rest of the wall are covered with ivy, as good a way as any to ensure there’s always life in the ballpark even if the club playing therein is long since out of contention.

BATTER’S EYE: Did you know that the lawn at the Ballpark in Arlington that serves as the park’s batter’s eye has a name? Well, it does: It’s Greene’s Hill, named for former Arlington mayor Richard Greene. It’s also a green hill, so it’s a pretty clever name all around. Beyond that, it lets fans chase home run balls without distracting the batters producing them.

HOME RUN THING: People say the gleaming, spinning, brightly colored, dolphin-encrusted Home Run Thing at Marlins Park is garish and tasteless. Those people don’t understand art.

WAREHOUSE: You want to give your big, lefty power hitters a target, but if they tee off on the Home Run Thing they’re destroying valuable art. And no Dadaist we know of has yet reached the Major League ranks. A brick warehouse down the right-field line – like they’ve got at Camden Yards in Baltimore – makes for a sturdy backstop to Bryce Harper and Prince Fielder’s home runs. Also important: Make sure your team has Bryce Harper and Prince Fielder.

VIDEO BOARD: The best and most underrated feature of the new Yankee Stadium is its massive, frameless video scoreboard. The lack of fixed ads around the screen mean fans get to enjoy a giant version of Derek Jeter’s face against the Bronx sky at dusk, an image culled from many dreams and also many nightmares. Also, the scoreboard at our park is suspended in mid-air. You have no idea the technology that’s going into this place.

FIELD: It’s not the specific pattern that matters here (though we liked this one from Shea Stadium) as much as what it represents. You’re going to need a grounds crew capable of making some crazy-looking patterns in the grass. Bonus points if they can figure a way to capture the mountains, the St. Louis Arch and the city skyline, but not the body of water because that doesn’t translate to grass. And you might as well throw in a “keyhole” — that dirt path from home plate to the pitcher’s mound. It looks cool, and it’s useful for preventing catchers from getting lost on the way to the mound to go over signs.

SEATS: There’s not much to say about the main seating bowl at Kauffman Stadium, which is exactly the point. Good sightlines, a reasonable amount of foul territory, and no odd angles to create silly bankshot doubles past the third baseman.

BULLPENS (NOT PICTURED ABOVE): At some point, even with your inevitably star-studded pitching staff, you’re going to need to warm up a reliever somewhere. This park has bullpens, alright; you just can’t really see them because they’re DEEP IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. The working theory is that pitchers will get loose faster due to the heat produced in the planet’s core. Just make sure to let them know a few minutes before you call them in so they can take the elevator up to sea level.

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Photo illustrations by Rubie Edmondson.