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Nicholson Map shows Possible Ball Grounds on Manhattan Island
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| City/State/Country: | New York, New York, United States |
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| Text | Nicholson's 1838 Map of Public Squares and Parks in New York City (online) gives maps of all the public spaces on Manhattan Island at that time. Baseball could be played at most of these, and in the future would be played at several. They included: The Battery (known, at the southern tip of Manhattan) Duane Park, at Hudson and Duane (too small) City Hall Park--see Protoball fields Hudson Square--bounded by Hudson, Beech, Varick. About where the Holland Tunnel circle is today Washington Square--4th/6th Sts. and 5th Ave. Tompkins Square--7th/10th Sts, Aves. A/B Union Place--14th/17th Sts and Union Square Stuyvesant Square--15th/17th Sts and Lexington Bloomingdale Square--53rd/57th Sts between 8th and 9th Aves. Gramercy Park--20th/21st Sts and Lexington (small) Madison Square--see Protoball fields Hamilton Square--see Protoball fields Manhattan Square--77th/81st Sts, 8th/9th Ave Observatory Place--89th/94th Sts., between 4th/5th Aves. Mount Morris--See Protoball fields. Of course not all these public parks were suitable for, or allowed, baseball. In Upper Manhattan Island, Jones' Wood and Conrad's Yorkville Park were later picnic venues. Central Park was started in the 1850s, but its commissioners didn't allow organized baseball match games until 1868. |
| Sources | Nicholson's 1838 Map of Public Squares and Parks in New York City |
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| Comment | This entry is intended as a guide to tracing baseball in NYC. See also French's 1860 NY State Gazetteer, p. 423, for a description of the parks. Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
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1838.13 Nicholson Map shows Possible Ball Grounds on Manhattan Island"
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