Cleveland’s League Park Reborn – If You Renovate It They Will Come

The renovation of main ticket booth of the League Park

There is good news in Cleveland. The former site of League Park – once home to the National League Cleveland Spiders, the American League Indians, the National Football League Cleveland Rams, and the Negro American League Cleveland Buckeyes – has been preserved and the historical portions of the ballpark that remain have been restored or renovated. League…

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Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium On The Banks of Lake Erie

Municipal Stadium was located at 1085 West Third Street in Cleveland, Ohio. Also known as Lakefront Stadium, the ballpark was situated on the banks Lake Erie just north of downtown. Built in 1931 and designed by the same engineering firm (Osborn Engineering) that designed such ballparks as Fenway Park, Tiger Stadium, Forbes Field, and old…

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Steps To The Past

League Park's dugout steps

They lead nowhere now, but these steps at League Park once took Cleveland players from the dugout, underneath the first base grandstands, to clubhouse, and back again. And it is here, at League Park, that I will begin recounting the steps I have taken over the years to find the past hidden within this country’s…

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