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Originally Posted by GrayGhost
This IMO is an awesome PC. Postmarked June 10, 1908 of a game in a park in Cleveland. Note Horses and Carriages, and the way people were dressed, people lounging on the ground etc. Baseball was such an "event" in the early years at all levels, as is seen here.
Interesting note: The day this Card was mailed, across town the Cleveland Naps, w Nap Lajoie having one hit, were beaten by the Red Sox and some dude named Cy Young.!
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Great postcard and photo. I believe what you're looking at is still there, and is known as Brookside Park. I remember going with my Uncle Wally in the late 60s to watch some of that year's ASA world championship games at Brookside. It even has its own Wikipedia page. And yes, I believe it is still considered as the site of the largest attended ballgame of all time, about 115,000 people back in 1915. And it is only about 10-15 minutes away, if even that, by car from where the National is held.
And just another reason I am so disappointed in all the people who dislike the idea of having the National in Cleveland. There are a lot of different and very historical things in and around the Cleveland area related to sports and such to be seen and appreciated, like this park and field depicted on this postcard, along with the original League Park and its accompanying museum, the Canton Football HOF and museum, which is only about a little over an hour away, and of course the Rock-N-Roll HOF and Museum in downtown Cleveland, to name a few. People just have to be willing to get up and actually go do something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookside_Stadium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_Park
And by the way, both of these ballparks/fields precede Fenway Park (the oldest ballpark still in use in MLB built in 1912) by about a couple decades. And an interesting side note for League Park, Cy Young threw the very first pitch in the very first game ever played at League Park on May 1, 1891. (And of course he ended up winning the game as the Cleveland Spiders beat the Cincinnati Reds 12-3 that day.)