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Post by osu054 on Apr 4, 2011 8:45:32 GMT -5
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Post by harlem on Apr 6, 2011 5:45:16 GMT -5
How long until someone gets jacked?
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Post by reghartner on Apr 6, 2011 12:11:07 GMT -5
I have friends that go down there and play. The biggest problem they have is bums asking them for a free beer.
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Post by ndbooster on Apr 9, 2011 11:27:24 GMT -5
Fans in Cleveland have also been doing this at the remains of League Park, home to the Cleveland Spiders in the 1890's, the Indians from '01 to '46, the Rams until they moved to L.A. in 1946, and the Cleveland Buckeyes in the Negro American League from '43 to '48. When the Buckeyes vacated the park was fallow for three years and demolished in 1951, but there's still something there: the lot, which hasn't been built on, still has an infield recognizable as a baseball diamond, a section of first-base grandstand remains (though crumbling and unsafe) and the park's ticket office survives as a little-used community center. This link explains the basics but I haven't found any good pictures of what the site looks like today: www.ballparks.com/baseball/american/league.htmA couple months ago I ran across a Youtube clip of volunteers cleaning the site, cutting grass, and laying bases for an informal game. That clip appears to be gone; there's a clip of a vintage baseball team (playing by 1860 rules) preparing for a game there, but you can't see much of the field. The site's fate appears to be in question; the City of Cleveland apparently wants to build some kind of renewal project there, but bureaucracy moves slowly and the money isn't there at the moment. How this remains recognizable as a ballpark sixty years after its destruction is a mystery. You'd think SOMETHING would've been built there in all this time - but this is a city that once had Dennis Kucinich as its mayor, so maybe they're just slow in general. |
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Post by ndbooster on Apr 9, 2011 11:47:14 GMT -5
Baseball, of a slightly more formal variety, is still being played at the corner of Grand and Dodier in St. Louis. When Gussie Busch built the original Busch Stadium in 1966, he donated the land Sportsman's Park stood on to the Boy's Club of St. Louis, who turned it into a complex of Little League diamonds. This clip, from a St. Louis TV show, shows a brief peek at the complex, but is mostly of interest for a lot of great game footage from Sportsman's Park (Browns and Cardinals both), a surprising amount of it in color. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX3cYftwIcc |
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