Help Identify a Stadium Photo

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

Picked this photo up a while back in a lot of 1920's Red Sox photos and this is the only one that looks to be an away game...any clue as to what stadium this is? Thanks!

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Posted By: Joann

Hard to tell. Outfield billboards all look national from what I can see (Ever Ready razor, Old Gold, PBR, etc). Huge amount of foul territory - so maybe that means multipurpose or converted stadium or facility of some kind? Or did they design w/that much foul ground back then?

Sorry - no help here.

J

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Posted By: M Lutz

Isn't that the old Braves stadium? And aren't those stands still standing, as part of Boston University's Nickerson Field?

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Posted By: barrysloate

I lived my freshman year on West Campus at Boston University and all that remains from Braves Field is part of the right field wall. The image pictured features left field which is gone. We used to play intramural softball right on the field. It was astroturf when I was there (1969-70). Hopefully it's grass today.

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Posted By: steve f

YES! Braves field... I stand corrected. MLutz you guessed it. The city gas tank was relocated to the southside before the war. Check this old shot. The tank, the rounding of the infield extending beyond the first and third baselines, the inward angle of the far left grandstand and the backwall.
*edited to credit Mlutz

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Posted By: Bob Pomilla

Possibly Columbia Park? The photo faces in the opposite direction,
but the low wall and expansive foul territory look the same.

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Posted By: Joann

Interesting that foul ground up third base line looks much bigger than first base line - asymetric, which again suggests not purely for baseball use.

I am kind of laughing at the path that is worn between home plate and the dugout on first base side. Not from dugout to on-deck circle to home plate, but dugout to home plate directly. I don't ever remember seeing that anywhere. I think it means either a whole lot of strike outs or a whole lot of home runs!!

J

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Daniel

Your clue of a Boston Red Sox away game leads me to guess that it is the old
Griffith Park in Washington. If we could read the distance marker down the
line on the wall it would cinch it. Can you read this number in your Photo ?

This is the only American League stadium back then that had a high wall and
narrow bleacher stands in Left Field as shown in your Photo.

If I recall correctly the distance to the wall down the left field foul line was
some thing like 400 feet.

Ted