Salerno/Valentine Case

Baseball traveled through rough waters beginning in the late…

The Sporting News

The Sporting News is the oldest sporting publication in the United…
Walter Dilbeck

Global League

Major League Baseball’'s revenue generating power exploded during…

Dover Hall Club

The idea of a winter retreat appealed to many in the baseball…
James (Nixey) Callahan

Logan Squares

In the midst of a successful career in the major leagues, Jim…
Shoeless Joe Jackson (BLACKBETSY.COM)

Bethlehem Steel League

Organized Baseball faced challenges on several fronts during…

Joe Hardy

Every so often there comes a phenom who streaks across the baseball…
Comiskey Park (Courtesy of the Chicago White Sox)

Comiskey Park (Chicago)

Circa turn of the Twentieth Century’s industrial post-war boom.…

Jarry Park (Montreal)

Rinky-dink in a most charming way, Jarry Park — or Parc Jarry…

Manhattan Field (New York)

For about a decade near the turn of the last century, now forgotten…

Sulphur Dell (Nashville)

The ballpark was a magnet. It drew boys like Walter Nipper, long…

Milwaukee Park (Milwaukee)

The amateur West End club of Milwaukee was formed in 1875 and…

Wright Street Grounds (Milwaukee)

Between 1879 and 1883, Milwaukee did not have a professional…

Lloyd Street Grounds (Milwaukee)

The Milwaukee wooden ballpark that hosted the most major league…

League Park (Cleveland)

The 1931 opening of Cleveland Stadium, also known as Cleveland…
1911 postcard of Borchert Field in Milwaukee

Borchert Field (Milwaukee)

In 1888, Athletic Park replaced the Wright Street Grounds…

Fair Grounds (Rockford, IL)

Rockford has the distinction of being a part of America’s first…

Kekionga Ball Grounds (Fort Wayne, IN)

Fort Wayne, Indiana, has hosted only 12 major-league games…

League Park (Fort Wayne, IN)

The last two of Fort Wayne’s 12 major-league games were played…

Swinney Park (Fort Wayne)

The Kekionga Ball Grounds hosted the first nine of Fort Wayne’s…

West End Park (Milwaukee)

No major Organized Baseball clubs played in Milwaukee from 1871…

Eclipse Park (Louisville, KY)

Following the demise of Louisville's National League franchise…

Swayne Field (Toledo, OH)

In 1955 Toledo, Ohio, suffered the double indignity of losing…

Congress Street Grounds (Boston)

The Congress Street Grounds in Boston had a short, but illustrious,…
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