Palace of the Fans,League Park III,Cincinnati,OH,US Ball Park First Game Date – 04/25/1902 (6) Starting Pitchers – vs. Cubs: 04/17/1902 Final Score 6-1 (CHN) Attendance – 10,000 Starting Pitchers Jack Taylor (CHN); Len Swormstedt (CIN) First Batter – Jimmy Slagle (CHN) Result – Walked First Hits – Jake Beckley (CIN),Singled First Run – Dummy Hoy…
Christy Mathewson wins his 21st straight game against the Cincinnati Reds, 5 – 3. He replaces Hooks Wiltse in the 8th and his single in the 9th scores a run to help win it.
At the Palace of the Fans in Cincinnati, the Giants establish a club mark, hitting four triples in one game. The plethora of three-baggers, including two-legged out by Hall of Fame hurler Rube Marquard as well as one each from Larry Doyle and Chief Meyers, and nine other hits enable New York to beat the Reds, 8-3.
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On June 18, 1909, The Cincinnati Reds experimented with night baseball at the Palace of the Fans in a game between two amateur teams before a crowd of 3,000. The lighting system of the invention of George Cahill, who owned a floodlight manufacturing firm in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Reds president Garry Herrmann was intrigued by the idea…
On June 8, 1905, Alice Rosoevelt, the daughter of the President, watched the Reds defeat the Dodgers 11-2 from a box seat at the Palace of the Fans. Dubbed “Princess Alice” in the press, the 20-year-old beauty was probably the most popular person in the country at the time. The public couldn’t get enough of the…