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06-25-2009, 08:47 AM
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For Randall "Playing Base Ball at Night"
Randall,
I found this article in the 1909 Popular Electricity magazine, "Playing Base Ball at Night". The article is talking about lighting a ball field in Cincinnati. While this article is talking about electricity and not gas, I find it quite contradictory to everything thing else I have been reading. Everything I have read (so far) talks about "electric lighting" for ball fields at a much later date? Anyway I thought you might be interested in the article and that you might be able to Identify the players and field???   
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06-25-2009, 09:00 PM
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Crosley Field
Smokelessjoe,
The field in your pics is Crosley/Palace of the Fans (home of the Reds). The middle pic shows the facade from the Palace of the Fans. Great piece!
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06-26-2009, 07:44 AM
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Night Games??
Hal,
Thank you for the info! I have read that the first Night Major League game was May 24, 1935 at Crosley Field, but it seems that since they installed lights in 1909 there would have been games played much earlier????
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06-27-2009, 08:53 AM
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Palace of the Fans - Not Crosley
You are correct the photo is of the Palace of the Fans, but it burned down and was replaced by Redland Field (later named Crosley) in 1912. While we're on the topic of night baseball in Cincinnati, in 1931 the Dayton Shroyers amateur team had to substitute for the House of David for the re-introduction of night baseball in Cincinnati using the House of David lighting equipment at Redland Field against the Reds. The substitution was necessary since the House of David team had too many outlawed players for an exhibition game against an organized major league team.
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