"It sounds like an absolute nightmare." Photos of former MLB player's abandoned 60,000-square-foot mansion spark backlash: 'No one needs this' first appeared on The Cool Down.

No one needs this much house.” The above comment has become the motto of an Internet outrage over an abandoned 60,000-square-foot home that was last associated with retired MLB pitcher Cole Hamels.

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The Vaulted ceiling and arched windows of a gothic revival mansion in Sleepy Hollow, New York. - © Bryan Sansivero, excerpted from America the Abandoned The houses ...