Clipping:Condition of the St. George grounds
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| Date | Tuesday, April 30, 1889 |
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| Text | Tall frames loomed up about the back of the ground, and nearly one-half of the ball field is covered with a great stage. The right field of the ball ground is about the same as it was when the Metropolitans played there, but the left field has been excavated to a depth of some ten feet,and the earth carried up to the centre of the field. The same thing has been done under the stage, so that even the thirty teams at work putting the ball ground in condition will have to keep going night and day to have it ready to play on. Then then the outfielders will have to play on the stage with rubber-soled shoes. On the first trip of the New Yorks from home work in removing the stage will be begun, but it will be very nearly the middle of the season before the ball ground will look anything as it did two years ago. The Staten Island Ferry Company will run boats every fifteen minutes on days of ball games. New York Sun April, 27, 1889 [Washington vs. New York 4/29/1889] The field was not as perfect as could have been wished for a ball game. Only about half of it was of earth; the other half consisted of the great stage upon which the “Fall of Rome” was exhibited last year. This stage is about 200 feet deep by 300 or more feet long. The outfielders of both teams wore rubber-soled shoes, and although boards do not make the finest kind of a ball ground, the outfielders were better able to play good ball than the infielders, who were darting about in the soft dirt. There were no base runs, and the foul lines only ran as far as the bases on each side. This made it very bad. … The stage on the outfield improved the long hits, for every time the ball struck fairly on the stage, no matter where, it was sure to be no less than a two-base hit. Whitney made a home run by the ball striking the stage and bounding over into the space back of the outfield. |
| Source | New York Sun |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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