Clipping:Plans for the Athletics' grounds
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| Date | Saturday, February 18, 1882 |
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| Text | The ground at Oakdale Park will be sodded and leveled, and, with the addition of a new fence and a new grand stand, it will be one of the best in the country. The contract for the grant stand has been awarded. It is to be two hundred feet long, seating fifteen hundred people, and will be divided into three sections. The section for season ticket holders will have cane-seated chairs, and another section will be reserved for ladies and gentlemen accompanying them. The reporters’ stand will be placed on top of the pavilion, and will seat twenty reporters. The Reading Railroad Company will build a station at the entrance to the ground, and will run special trains on the days of match games. The Athletics’ have a nicely fitted up club-room at 135 North Eighth street, where ball-players visiting Philadelphia will receive a cordial welcome. Cincinnati Commercial February 18, 1882 Those who visited the Oakdale Park Grounds, in 1881, would scarcely recognize the place now, so greatly has Manager Simmons and his aids changed the appearance of things there. In place of the meager accommodations of last season, there is now a room grand-stand of a seating capacity for over 2,000 people. This structure is divided in three parts–the main stand, which directly faces the home plate, and east and west wings, running at angles from the main-stand. The main-stand will be seated with chairs, and will be devoted to holders of season tickets and ladies. On the top of the main-stand is the reporter’s pavilion, a fine structure, which will hold twenty persons, and will be used only by reporters. To the left of this is a private box, erected by Stephen Flanagan, Esq., for the use of himself and family. On the right and left of the field open seats have been erected capable of seating 2,000 persons. The ground has been enlarged 100 feet, the home plate being back of where the old grand-stand used to be. The infield has been plowed, re-sodded and rolled, and is now as level as a parlor floor. The outfield has been filled in and graded, and in its entirely is one of the handsomest grounds in the country. Of course there will be considerable interest taken in the contests between the Athletic team and the college and other teams which they are already engaged to play with; but the main interest will center in the grand matches for the local championship, Philadelphia vs. Athletic. A new fence is being erected, which, with the other improvements, will be completed this week. The managers of the Athletic Club have been liberal in their expenditures, and the patrons of the National game will find that everything possible has been done to secure their comfort and convenience. ... The Reading Railroad Company will erect a station at Oakdale Park, and will run special trains to the ground on days of games. New York Clipper April 1, 1882 New York Clipper April 1, 1882 |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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