Rediscover Forgotten Ballparks Through My Blog
Lonaconing’s Own Lefty Grove
By Byron Bennett |
Robert Moses “Lefty” Grove was one of the greatest left-handed pitchers of all time. He ...
Read More Albert Spalding and Point Loma Nazarene University
By Byron Bennett |
Baseball pioneer and Hall of Famer Albert Spalding played for two early major league teams ...
Read More Ted Williams – His Boyhood Home When “The Kid” Was Just A Kid
By Byron Bennett |
Ted Williams, the Splendid Splinter, grew up in the North Park section of San Diego, ...
Read More Charlie Ebbets’s Field
By Byron Bennett |
Ebbets Field was home to the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 until 1957. The ballpark was ...
Read More The Polo Grounds, Coogan’s Bluff, and the Brush Memorial Stairway
By Byron Bennett |
The Polo Grounds was located in Harlem, New York, at 157th Street and 8th Avenue. ...
Read More Candlestick Park (Be Sure to Bring a Sweater)
By Byron Bennett |
When the New York Giants left the Polo Grounds and moved to San Francisco for the 1958 season, ...
Read More San Francisco’s Seals Stadium and the Double Play Bar
By Byron Bennett |
Seals Stadium was home to the major league San Francisco Giants for two years from ...
Read More Nellie Fox Bowl
By Byron Bennett |
Before the Marvin Miller era, many major league players had to find work during the ...
Read More Baltimore’s Other Major League Ballfield – Terrapin Park Oriole Park
By Byron Bennett |
Terrapin Park (later known as Oriole Park (V)) was home to the Federal League Baltimore ...
Read More Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes To Savannah
By Byron Bennett |
Shoeless Joe Jackson was born in South Carolina in 1887. He began his professional baseball ...
Read More Baltimore’s First American League Park – Original Home of the Future New York Yankees
By Byron Bennett |
The southwest corner of East 29th Street and Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, is the ...
Read More Ballpark Found – Fort Pulaski And The First Known Photo Of Baseball
By Byron Bennett |
This post concerns not a lost ballpark, but a ballpark found. Well, not actually a ...
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