KOAM: Home of first night pro baseball game may be torn down

With the permission of Garry Herrmann, President of the Cincinnati Reds, Cahill staged a night game on June 19, 1909 in the Reds' park between the Elk Lodges of Cincinnati and Newport, Ky. Surprisingly, the game was played without difficulty and the 3,000 spectators, including the Cincinnati and Philadelphia teams which had played that afternoon, had little trouble following the ball. President Herrmann appeared impressed, as were others, but nothing of consequence came of it.

This one didn't count either

The first night game in Major League history was played at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, May 24, 1935, with an attendance of 20,422. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seated in the White House, pushed a button and 1,090,000 watts of electric power from 632 lamps...

And this is a lie too right?

Crosley field was ripped down in 1972... A progressive community decided to tear it down, and create a memorial..

Independence will spend millions preserving an eye sore, based on rumor!

hoot owl and the chicken wrote:

<quoted text>On August 27, 1910, using his patented lighting system, Cahill staged a night game at the new White Sox Park in Chicago with the approval of President Charles Comiskey....
It wasn't regular season, and it was a professional game, and it was an organized team, but that didn't count... right?

Not right. It was not a organized professional game, not even an organized game. No where in the article is it stated that it was, and I do not even see where it tried to deceive a reader into thinking so. None of the games prior to the Independence game are stated as being organized games because they were not.

What wrote:

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Not right. It was not a organized professional game, not even an organized game. No where in the article is it stated that it was, and I do not even see where it tried to deceive a reader into thinking so. None of the games prior to the Independence game are stated as being organized games because they were not.

"Logan Square semi-pro baseball team played on the north side of Chicago during the early 1900s"
http://www.baseballhistorian.com/fans_favorit...

Here is a link to the other semi pro team Rogers Park, that played in the organized leagues 1909 NIGHT game.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h... :@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+s 007512))

If you would spend as much time trying to find the truth, as you do trying to prove someone wrong, you could educate yourself.
Plus you wouldn't seem like a complete idiot!

What wrote:

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Not right. It was not a organized professional game, not even an organized game. No where in the article is it stated that it was, and I do not even see where it tried to deceive a reader into thinking so. None of the games prior to the Independence game are stated as being organized games because they were not.

It was an organized league, it was a semi-pro "PAID" "Professional" team. It happened 20 years before the "first night game" in Independence....... So again believe the lies if you want... I choose not to!

Sweat the petty stuff all you want. I just sent a message to the Ewing Kauffman Foundation to see if they would help us do something with it. Carry on.

hoot owl and the chicken wrote:

<quoted text>It was an organized league, it was a semi-pro "PAID" "Professional" team. It happened 20 years before the "first night game" in Independence....... So again believe the lies if you want... I choose not to!

I think the reason no one is going to believe you is all the links you have posted are old history, nothing new. All the teams you referenced were not organized teams, and no one is going to take your word for it over the documented records. If there is a claim that the teams were organized, just provide the page and line number that states it, or you could even provide the organization classifications for the teams.

Zach Webb wrote:

Sweat the petty stuff all you want. I just sent a message to the Ewing Kauffman Foundation to see if they would help us do something with it. Carry on.

Zach, that is using your head, good job.

Here's probably the only link that "true" baseball fans need. True fans are certainly familiar with Sabermetrics and should enjoy this article from this research group. What, you thought all they talked about was stats like BABIP?

Zach Webb wrote:

Sweat the petty stuff all you want. I just sent a message to the Ewing Kauffman Foundation to see if they would help us do something with it. Carry on.

I'd donate 1000.00 if they would rip it down! And plan to build something feesable!

If anyone is interested in maybe perserving the stadium here are a few places to write and maybe receive some assitance.

Community Relations Thomas C. Brausuell
Yankee Stadium V.P. Community Affairs
Bronx, NY 10451 Major League Baseball
245 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10167

Yankee1978 wrote:

If anyone is interested in maybe perserving the stadium here are a few places to write and maybe receive some assitance.
Community Relations Thomas C. Brausuell
Yankee Stadium V.P. Community Affairs
Bronx, NY 10451 Major League Baseball
245 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10167

Tear the SOB down and the Landon house with it.

IHS 1977 wrote:

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Tear the SOB down and the Landon house with it.

And hope your sorry ass gets crushed in the rubble!

I say that not one of you so called "Historians" gave a rats ass about the condition of the stadium, until now. It's an eye sore, tear it down.

Indy Fan wrote:

I say that not one of you so called "Historians" gave a rats ass about the condition of the stadium, until now. It's an eye sore, tear it down.

Exactly. Now the taxpayers are (again) supposed to come to the rescue to preserve something no one wanted.

welfare to preserve an eyesore!!! gimme gimme gimme.

IHS 1987 wrote:

<quoted text>And hope your sorry ass gets crushed in the rubble!

You clueless pansy.

IHS 1977 wrote:

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Exactly. Now the taxpayers are (again) supposed to come to the rescue to preserve something no one wanted.

You care to expand on how the taxpayers are being asked to come to the rescue of this? More later!