Haight Street Grounds
Haight-Street Recreation Grounds. Following a league dispute at the Central Park grounds, James Fair established a new ball park in 1886 known as the Alameda Grounds on the island of Alameda for play of the California League, which was moved the following year for play at a new baseball park in the Haight District. With grandstands seating 14,000 and located at the terminus of a railcar line. 1887 to March 1895. The borders of this ball park were Stanyan, Waller, Cole and Frederic Streets Photo. Teams playing in this park included the Greenhood & Morans both of Oakand, the Colonels of the California League (1887–89), the Haverlys andFriscoes - California League (1887–1893), the San Franciscos - California State League (1896 only), Brewers - California League (1897–1901) and the Pirates - Pacific National League (1903). 37°46′3.17″N 122°27′5.46″W / 37.7675472°N 122.4515167°W / 37.7675472; -122.4515167
Read more about this topic: List Of Baseball Parks In San Francisco, California
Famous quotes containing the words street and/or grounds:
“I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“And in a disused shed in Co. Wexford,
Deep in the grounds of a burnt-out hotel,
Among the bathtubs and the washbasins
A thousand mushrooms crowd to a keyhole.”
—Derek Mahon (b. 1941)