Clipping:Rumors of the end of the Brooklyn ball grounds; the state of baseball grounds
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| Date | Saturday, January 31, 1880 |
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| Text | The old Union ball-grounds in Brooklyn have been purchased for the site of the new armory for the Forty-seventh Regiment, which is to be commenced the ensuing month; and the Capitoline ball-grounds, Brooklyn, will be built upon this Spring, a street right through the centre now being graded. … The great gathering-place for the amateur clubs in the metropolis is the grand ball-ground at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, with its thirteen regularly laid-out ball-fields and its two special fields for first-class matches. What is sadly wanted in the metropolis is an athletic park of sufficient extent to admit of a professional baseball-ground, a cricket ground for international matches, an exhibition field for college football contests in the Fall and Spring, a lacrosse club-ground, and full facilities for the grand games of the athletic clubs. Such an enterprise as this should pay handsomely if located near any of the elevated-railroad depots uptown. Why cannot New York have such a model place? Our park is useless for any such sports, its “cricket-field” and “baseball-grounds,” as marked out on its maps, being merely ornamental, having no practical existence. New York Clipper January 31, 1880 We have good news for the resident professionals of New York and Brooklyn in the fact that Manager Cammeyer desires us to announce that the Union Baseball Grounds will open for the season as soon as the weather permits, and that a good co-operative nine will be at once organized to play professional matches for as much of the season as the arrangements for the sale of the grounds will admit of. The delay in the legislative action in regard to the use of the ground for the 47th Regiment Armory admits of Mr. Cammeyer's having this ball-=ground until August, if not later. This will assure the patrons of the game in this neighborhood a season's play of at least four months, and the best part of the season at that. It is now in order for the Flyaways and other local co-operative professional clubs to organize nines for the Union Grounds campaign. Mr. Cammeyer will at once get a good Brooklyn team organized, which will be strong enough to cope with the League and National teams that may pass through New York to play in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. … The Capitoline Ground is now in process of being graded for the new street run through. Last week the fence was taken down, and this week the street-grading begins. There is now, therefore, only the Union Ball-grounds left in Brooklyn for the use of professional teams. New York Clipper March 20, 1880 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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