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The $94-million financing for the redevelopment of Hinchliffe Stadium, a former Negro Leagues ballpark in Paterson, NJ, has been finalized by BAW Development, paving the way for work to continue. (BAW rendering)
Financing has been finalized to redevelop Hinchliffe Stadium, a former Negro Leagues baseball park in Paterson, N.J., clearing the way for work to continue the $94 million project.
One of only four remaining Negro Leagues ballparks still standing, Hinchliffe Stadium opened in 1932 and was home to, at various times, the New York Black Yankees and New York Cubans during the ‘30s and ‘40s. A range of events took place at the park, including car racing, boxing concerts and shows featuring the old Abbott and Costello comedy team. After the war years, it served as a sports venue for three different Paterson-area high schools.
Hartford s Dunkin Donuts Park was named the best Double-A baseball stadium in the nation for the third time, a record for the Ballpark Digest rankings.
The Hartford Yard Goats Baseball Club, the Double-A Affiliate of the Colorado Rockies whose home base is Dunkin Donuts Park, announced the victory Wednesday morning, noting that no other team has won the honor three times.
“It’s a tremendous honor to be recognized as the best Double-A ballpark in America for a third time, particularly in light of the difficult year we’ve all been through and the number of new ballparks that have opened recently,” Yard Goats General Manager Mike Abramson said.
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PITTSBURGH As is tradition, the Pirates shipped out their equipment truck to LECOM Park for Spring Training this week. But this tradition goes a little bit further back than for other teams.
What is today called LECOM Park in Bradenton, Fla., has existed for 98 years, wearing many names throughout the years, including City Park, Braves Field then its longest-tenured title McKechnie Field. It has hosted the Braves, the Phillies, the Red Sox, the Cardinals, the Royals and the Athletics before the Pirates stepped in and took it for the long haul.
If you factor in Ninth Street Park, which occupied the plot before the current park was built, more than a century of baseball has been played at the location.