Steve Willoughby wrote:
>I'm very much a novice at this (SABR member less than one week),

Welcome to our humble little group. Hope you'll be happy here.


>but
>I'll give a theory on this subject a whirl. Online, I've found
>excerpts from a book, The Boston Braves: 1981-1953, by Harold Kaese,
>where, at page 8, discussing the 1871 origins of the Boston NL team,
>Kaese writes, "For a park, the Boston club had leased the grounds known
>as the Union Base Ball Ground at South End, near Milford Place." As I
>read Kaese, this was to become the park known as South End Grounds. So
>it is possible that "the Union grounds" mentioned in the Advertiser
>article you refer to and South End Grounds are one and the same;

Great. Thanks for that lead; sounds most likely true.


Cliff Blau
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