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Can anyone confirm if the grandstand still exists at League Park? I have heard mixed answers on this, and I was told that part of the first base side grandstand still remains as well as the old ticket booth. Here is an aerial photo of the ballpark location. It looks like part of the stands still exists today, and you can sort of see the outline of the old infield and pitchers mound where Cy Young himself once stood! --JR 17:26, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I also heard rumors of a Cleveland project to reconstruct the old stadium in it's original glory to preserve the history and draw tourists. Has anybody heard anything on this? --JR 17:26, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

• As far as I know, there is a remodeling plan, and I also heard that the remnant of the lower first base stand had been demolished recently, like within the last year or so, probably because it was either unsafe or too far deteriorated to be recoverable. The Google Maps picture says 2006, but it's hard to tell whether the grandstand is really still there, although the shadows indicate the remnant of the outer wall was still standing then, at least. However, maybe someone from Cleveland will stumble across this article and provide a factual answer. Wahkeenah 17:39, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Interresting. Thanks for your reply. Anybody from Cleveland know anything further about the remodeling plan? --JR 01:39, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
    • Take a close look at the aerial photo. It looks like there there are squares of light (maybe windows but probably open doors) within the shadow of the outer wall. Also note the lack of features in the area where the grandstand should be. Then go to the Clem page, where he has a picture from the outside. No windows or doors open, at that time, that would let light through. From the available evidence (such as it is, and short of spending a few hundred bucks to go there and check it out), it looks like that stand has been leveled, leaving just a concrete slab and opening up those openings that it formerly covered. (Hey, I should be working for the CEE-YI-YAY or something). If so, given that the wall is like 96 years old and would have no obvious means of support, I hope they put some safety cones around it. Wahkeenah 01:47, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
    • Another possibly interesting feature in the aerial are some of the houses to the right, which are set back from the street at different distances. Some of those houses are visible in the aerial photo accompanying the article. It reminds me of Connie Mack Stadium in a way. Mack built the "spite fence" in the 1930s to block the neighorhood rooftops from watching the games. The neighborhood houses are still there in North Philly, while Mack, the ballpark and the A's team itself are long gone from Philly (and, being stuck in Oakland, are not necessarily the better for it all). Wahkeenah 02:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

date of demolition?

The article states "The Cleveland Browns football team would continue to use the aging facility as a practice field until the late 1960s." but the info box has it as being demolished in 1951. Herostratus 04:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

• It was, except for the bits and pieces noted in the last paragraph. I also added a sentence in the article to try to make that point a little clearer. Wahkeenah 03:01, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

League Park History

Please add: Ted Williams hit the only inside the park home run of his career in League Park in September 1946 to clinch the American League pennant for the Boston Red Sox. His HR was the only score in a 1-0 game. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.178.185.196 (talk) 14:02, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Presumably that would be this game[1] on the 13th, after which the Red Sox were 97-46 and the Tigers were 79-58, putting the Red Sox 12 games ahead on the loss side with just 11 to play. When you look at the Indians' game log[2] and note the kinds of numbers the Indians were pulling at Cleveland Stadium vs. League Park, it's easy to see why Veeck decided to abandon the old place. The last game there was 8 days later, on the 21st,[3] as the Indians rounded out their home season with 3 games at the stadium. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:14, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

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