Posts Tagged ‘Deadball’
A Tiger Stadium Drive Around
Five years ago the last vestiges of Tiger Stadium met the wrecking ball. The decade-long march toward that moment, beginning with the final game on September 27, 1999, culminated with the demolition and removal of the last standing section of the stadium on September 21, 2009. The following video was taken in December 2002, over three years…
Read MoreHartford’s Bulkeley Stadium – Now A Nursing Home With A Home Plate
Morgan M. Bulkeley Stadium was located on the southeast corner of Hanmer Street and George Street in Hartford, Connecticut. The ballpark originated in 1921 as Clarkin Field, named in honor of its builder, Jim Clarkin, the owner of the Eastern League Hartford Senators. After a fire in 1927, the ballpark was rebuilt. Clarkin sold the team…
Read MorePaterson New Jersey’s Hinchliffe Stadium – A Diamond In The Rough
Hinchliffe Stadium is located at the intersection of Liberty Street and Maple Street in Paterson, New Jersey. The ballpark is set directly behind Paterson Public School No. 5, located at 430 Totowa Avenue, just three blocks northeast of the entrance on Maple Street to Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park. Hinchliffe Stadium is named after…
Read MorePayne Park – Spring Training In Sarasota From John McGraw to Tony LaRussa
Payne Park was located at the southeast corner of Adams Lane and South Washington Boulevard in Sarasota, Florida. The stadium was part of a 60 acre park named in honor of Calvin Payne, a Sarasota winter resident who donated the land to the city in 1923. From 1924 to 1988, the ballpark was the spring…
Read MoreBugle Field – Home of the Baltimore Elite Giants
Bugle Field was located in East Baltimore at the intersection of Federal Street and Edison Highway, just a few blocks south of Baltimore Cemetery and approximately one and a half miles off I-895. In 1912, Edward C. Lastner of the Simpson and Doeller Company (a company that printed can labels), with seed money provided by…
Read MoreRickwood Field – Baseball’s Time Capsule
Rickwood Field, located at 1137 2nd St W, in Birmingham, Alabama, is a century-old time capsule of America’s National Pastime. It is recognized by the Historic American Building Survey as the country’s oldest surviving baseball park. Constructed by Birmingham Barons owner Rick Woodward (hence the name), the first professional game played there was a contest…
Read MoreChicago’s West Side Grounds – Where The Cubs Last Won the World Series
West Side Grounds (also called West Side Park) at the intersection of S Wolcott Avenue and W Polk Street was the home of the Chicago Cubs from 1893 until 1915. It was the second ballpark in Chicago known by that name, the first being located a mile to the northeast at the intersection of South…
Read MoreTed Williams – His Boyhood Home When “The Kid” Was Just A Kid
Ted Williams, the Splendid Splinter, grew up in the North Park section of San Diego, California. His boyhood home is located at 4121 Utah Street. His home on Utah Street is located in the North Park section of San Diego, just northeast of Balboa Park. The home is a modest, one story bungalow. Williams lived there…
Read MoreCharlie Ebbets’s Field
Ebbets Field was home to the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 until 1957. The ballpark was the brainchild of Dodgers owner Charlie Ebbet. He spent four years piecing together the land necessary to construct the ballpark when it became clear that the Dodgers’ home at Washington Park was no longer suitable. Located in the Flatbush section…
Read MoreThe Polo Grounds, Coogan’s Bluff, and the Brush Memorial Stairway
The Polo Grounds was located in Harlem, New York, at 157th Street and 8th Avenue. Various incarnations of ballparks at that location were home to three different major league teams: the National League New York Giants from 1891 to 1957, the New York Yankees from 1913 to 1922, and the New York Mets in 1962…
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