Saturday, October 15, 2011

Largest Baseball Crowd Ever--It Happened in Cleveland

Telling Strollers vs. Hanna Cleaners, September 1914
I located this photo at this site: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/pan/6a29000/6a29400/6a29473v.jpg. Click on the image to see the full panorama.

I think this is the game my Grampa played in--the largest crowd ever to see a baseball game. And it happened in Cleveland, September 1914, at Brookside Park (near the zoo). This was a semi-pro game, not major league. Hard to imagine from our perspective a hundred years later.

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