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Baseball Historians Say Hartford's Missing A Sign
Nothing To Mark Site Of Ex-Major League Team's Field Baseball Historians
By TOM YANTZ | Courant Staff Writer
July 29, 2007
July 29, 2007
The thick grass beneath one's shoes cushions this step back in time.
There it is, home plate at the Base Ball Grounds at the corner of Wyllys Street and Hendrixon Avenue in Hartford, about 50 feet from the tallest maple tree.
Boisterous boys climb the leafy perch to watch the game for free. Carriages, which have brought some of the city's more prosperous residents, are lined up beyond the outfield fence.
A telegraph operator taps out game reports from the domed tower atop the grandstand. Genteel patrons sit in designated seats in the pavilion behind home plate. Author and humorist Mark Twain cheers for his home team.
Open your eyes, and it's all gone, of course. But memories do remain of the Hartford Dark Blues, one of the original eight National League teams in 1876.
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