1915 Toronto Island/Hanlan's Point Stadium Opening Day photos

[baseball tourist]

Originally Posted by MooseDog

This is probably your best bet. Not free but 110 years of Toronto news.

http://www.pagesofthepast.ca

Thanks to a great suggestion from "MooseDog" I reviewed the digitized archives of the Toronto Star to find that the home opener was played on Monday, May 17 in poor weather (typical Toronto springtime). The game was a slugfest with 4 homeruns landing in the bleachers and a seesaw battle - with Toronto up 5-0 after 2 against Richmond only to lose in 10, 11-8.



For fun, I dug up the report of the Babe's first prof HR game from Sept 5, 1914 (as reported on Sept 7). It includes mention of Ruth's mastery on the mound and that Boston was ponying up bucks for him, but not his dinger.

[deebro041]

Awesome link MooseDog! Also great photos Chris!