Posts Tagged ‘Deadball’
Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes To Savannah
Shoeless Joe Jackson was born in South Carolina in 1887. He began his professional baseball career in 1908, playing first for the Greenville Spinners and then for the Philadelphia Athletics later that season. In 1909 Shoeless Joe started the year with the Savannah Indians, before once again being called up by the Athletics. After being…
Read MoreBaltimore’s First American League Park – Original Home of the Future New York Yankees
The southwest corner of East 29th Street and Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, is the site of two former major league baseball fields. From 1890-1891, the site held Oriole Park (II) (the second Oriole Park according to Phillip Lowry and his excellent book Green Cathedrals) and was home to the American Association Baltimore Orioles. A…
Read MoreThe Field Where Babe Ruth Played – St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys
The baseball field where Babe Ruth honed his skills as a child still remains to this day in an area just west of downtown Baltimore at 3225 Wilkens Avenue. With the demise of the House That Ruth Built and the demolition of so many of the major league parks where he once played, there appears to…
Read MoreCleveland’s League Park – The Oldest Former MLB Park Still Standing (Somewhat)
Located at the corner of Lexington and East 66th Street, just three miles east of the Cleveland Indian’s current home, Progressive Field, is a historical baseball structure unmatched anywhere else in the United States. For at that corner stands League Park, or what’s left of it. Once home to both Cleveland’s National League and American League…
Read MoreForbes Field – Game Over
My earlier post, Forbes Field and the University of Pittsburgh, focuses on the portion of the original outfield wall that remains at the former site of Forbes Field, now part of the University of Pittsburgh. The original outfield wall is not the only artifact of Forbes Field remaining at the site. The former location of home…
Read MoreUnion Park – Home of the World Champion National League Baltimore Orioles
Union Park lasted as a major league venue for a mere nine seasons, from 1891 to 1899. Known also as Oriole Park (III) and the Baltimore Baseball and Exhibition Grounds, the ballpark was home of the World Champion (1894-1896) National League Baltimore Orioles. Union Park was located at the corner of East 25th Street and and what…
Read MoreHilltop Park And the Church of Baseball
Perched on a hill overlooking the Hudson River at the southwest corner of Broadway and 168th Street in Washington Heights was Hilltop Park, the original home ball field of the New York Yankees (known then as the Highlanders). The third base grandstand, which once ran parallel to Fort Washington Avenue, is shown in the picture…
Read MoreSteps To The Past
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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