Dimensions
For a small park, there were plenty of posted distance markers. The final major remodeling was done in 1926. Distance markers had appeared by the 1940s:
- Left Field Line - 351 ft
- Medium Left Center - 358 ft
- True Left Center - 379 ft
- Deep Left Center - 400 ft
- Deep Left Center Field Corner - 426 ft, the distance usually given for center field (sign later painted over)
- Just to right of Deep Left Center Field Corner - 425 ft
- True Center Field - 422 ft, just to left of Deep Right Center Field Corner
- Deep Right Center Field Corner - also 422 ft, almost true center field (sign later painted over)
- Deep Right Center - 405 ft
- True Right Center - 354 ft
- Medium Right Center - 322 ft
- Right Field Line - 310 ft
- Backstop - 68 ft
The following links provide images of the field's markers.
- Photo of left field markers
- Photo of center and right center field markers
- Photo of right field markers
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