Players' League - Players' League Teams, Players' League Venues, Polo Grounds, Exposition Park, Philadelphia Athletics, South Side Park (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Players' League Teams, Players' League Venues, Polo Grounds, Exposition Park, Philadelphia Athletics, South Side Park, Boston Reds, Eastern Park, Olympic Park, Congress Street Grounds, Pittsburgh Burghers, Chicago Pirates, Buffalo Bisons, Cleveland Infants, New York Giants, Brooklyn Ward's Wonders, Forepaugh Park, Brotherhood Park. Excerpt: Polo Grounds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The first Polo Grounds, Opening Day, 1886 The original Polo Grounds stood at 110th Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth (now Lenox) Avenue, directly across 110th Street from the northeast corner of Central Park. The venue's original purpose was for the sport of polo, and its name was initially merely descriptive, not a formal name, often rendered as "the polo grounds" in newspapers. The Metropolitans, an independent team of roughly major-league caliber, were the first professional baseball team to play there, beginning in September 1880, and remained the sole professional occupant through the 1882 season. At that time the Metropolitans' ownership had the opportunity to bring them into the National League, but elected instead to organize a new team, the New York Gothams (who soon came to be known as the Giants), mainly using players from the Metropolitans and the newly defunct Troy Trojans, and entered it in the National League, while bringing what remained of the Metropolitan club into the competing American Association. For this purpose the ownership built a second diamond and grandstand at the park, dividing it into eastern and western fields for use by the Giants and Metropolitans respectively. Polo Grounds I thus hosted its first Major League Baseball games in 1883 as the home stadium of two teams, the American Association Metropolitans and the National... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=534386