Super Bowl Office Pool Grid

League Park was a baseball stadium located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was home to the National League Cleveland Spiders, the American League Cleveland Indians and the Cleveland Buckeyes of the Negro American League. It was located at the northeast corner of Lexington Avenue and E. 66th Street.

League Park was opened on May 1, 1891, and sat 9,000 on wooden seats at the time. The Spiders played there until going out of business after a disastrous 20–134 season in 1899 due to having their best players stripped from their roster by an unscrupulous owner. They were replaced the very next year by an entry in the new American League, which was initially a minor league and became a major league a year later. The stadium was rebuilt for the 1910 season, with concrete and steel grandstands, now seating 21,414. The owner renamed the park after himself, so for a while it was called " Dunn Field ". After ownership changed hands, the name reverted to the more prosaic "League Park" (there were a number of professional teams' parks called by the generic "League Park" at one time, but in this case the name stuck). The Indians began playing night, holiday and weekend games at the far larger Cleveland Stadium in 1932, although in some years following they played exclusively at League Park. They split games between the two stadiums off and on until the end of the 1946 season. Lights were never installed at League Park, and thus night games were not regularly played there. However, at least one night game was played on July 27, 1931, between the Homestead Grays and the House of David -- who borrowed the portable lighting system used by the Kansas City Monarchs. For 1947, under the ownership of Bill Veeck, the Indians moved to Cleveland Stadium full-time. League Park became the last stadium used in Major League Baseball never to install permanent lights.

Because of a need to squeeze the ballfield into the Cleveland street grid, the stadium was rather oddly shaped by modern standards. It was only 290 feet (88 m) down the right field line—though batters still had to surmount a 60-foot (18 m) fence to hit a home run (by comparison, the Green Monster at Fenway Park is only 37 feet (11 m) high). The fence in left field was only five feet tall, but batters had to hit the ball 375 feet (114 m) down the line to hit a home run, and it was fully 460 feet (140 m) to the scoreboard in the deepest part of center field. The diamond, situated in the northwest corner of the block, was slightly tilted counterclockwise, making right field not quite as easy a target as Baker Bowl's right field, for example.

After the demise of the Negro American League Cleveland Buckeyes following the 1950 season, League Park was no longer in use as a regular sports venue. Most of the structure was demolished the next year. The Cleveland Browns football team would continue to use the aging facility as a practice field until the late 1960s.

League Park today

Today the site is a public park. A small section of the exterior brick facade (along the first-base side) still stands, as well as the old ticket office behind what was the right field corner. The last remnant of the grandstand, crumbling and presumably unsafe, was taken down ca. 2002 as part of a renovation process to the decaying playground.

The park is currently slated for a massive renovation/rebuild that will restore it to its original state.

A vintage baseball club, the Cleveland Blues Base Ball Club, plays at League Park and will open their season there against the Forest City BBC on April 24, 2010, the 100 Year Anniversary of League Park II.

Notable events

Some historic events that took place at League Park include the major league debut of pitching sensation Alta Weiss on October 2, 1907, the Cleveland Indians winning the 1920 World Series, the Cleveland Buckeyes winning the Negro World Series in 1945, and perhaps most famously, it was where baseball legend Babe Ruth hit his 500th home run on August 11, 1929. Cy Young made the first pitch in this stadium in 1891. The first grand slam in a world series, first home run by a pitcher in a world series, the only unassisted triple play (Billy Wambsganss) in a world series to date occurred here, in game five of the 1920 World Series. On July 16, 1941, the final game of Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak occurred here. The streak would be snapped the following night, at Cleveland Stadium.

Notes

  1. ^ Briggs, David (2007-08-08). "League Park may glisten once again" . http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070806&content_id=2133242&vkey=cle_gameface&fext=.jsp&c_id=cle . Retrieved 2008-10-02 .  
  2. ^ Cleveland Blues Base Ball Club -
  3. ^ "Miss Alta Weiss of the Weiss All-Stars of Cleveland, Ohio" . http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/postcards&CISOPTR=4141&CISOBOX=1&REC=2 . Retrieved 2009-09-26 .  

Copy of Copy of Super Bowl Office Pool 2008 - Num Sum ...

Grid numbers will be picked randomly after/when its ... Enjoy and get ready for some Super Bowl commercials! Tags: Super Bowl Office Pool 2007

...

How to Set Up a Super Bowl Pool | eHow.com

How to Set up a Super Bowl Pool Grid; How to Make a Super Bowl Squares Pool ... little you-pick-the-score game to liven up the office during Super Bowl week. This pool ...

...

How to Make a Super Bowl Pool Grid - Associated Content ...

The Super Bowl is now less than two weeks away. This means it is time for Super Bowl pools using grids or squares to start circulating the office. Here is how to make your own ...

...

2010 "March Madness" College Basketball Office Pools ...

Super Bowl Squares Pool (Super Bowl Squares Grid - an NFL Football Office Pools) Creating your pool To create a "Super Bowl Squares" NFL football Pool, you must first become a member ...

...

Printable SuperBowl Squares Print 100 Grid Office Pool ...

Print NFL Super Bowl Office Pool 100 Square Boxes, Printable football square grid box, unique office pool ideas.

...

Sports Betting: How to Create a Super Bowl Box Pool

super bowl box pool; 100 square pool; sports office pools; super bowl ... The first thing you must do for your Super Bowl box pool is to ... diagonal down the left-hand side of the grid ...

...

Setting up a Super Bowl Office Pool - Bears Game Day

... matchup is set, there's no better time to set up the traditional Super Bowl Squares office pool. You've probably noticed Crazy Betting Guy wandering around your office with a grid ...

...

Free printable office pools, printable football pools ...

Welcome to Rick's free printable office pools free weekly football pools and Super Bowl ... 100 square football pool - Super Bowl squares grid portrait

...

Super bowl FOOTBALL POOL grid - Num Sum

Super bowl FOOTBALL POOL grid by : rushfan : Description: $10 per square Tags: Super Bowl Office Pool 2007

...

Super Bowl Office Football Pools - Enjoy Sports Betting ...

Super Bowl Office Football Pools - Enjoy Sports Betting with Your Friends We have all you need to set up 2009 Super Bowl office pools using our grid templates you can print along ...

...