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Crowd watches World Series results as played out on “metal
playing field”: Lakeland, Florida (1924)
This scene at the Lakeland Ledger office, on October 4,
1924, was a familiar one throughout the land at daily newspaper
offices during World Series week. Crowds would gather to
watch a pitch-by-pitch enactment of the game as news arived
on the Associated Press wire. The chief board operator, by
means of an electromagnet behind the metal "playing
field" would cause a lighweight metal ball to roll from
the pitcher's mound to home plate, and then to the appropriate
spots on the field. One or more assistants, as needed, would
slide discs representing runners along the base paths. An
announcer with a megaphone would describe the action.
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score here is 2 to 0, in favor of the New York Giants,
after five innings of the first game of the
1924 Series. The Giants won that game, 4 to 3, in 12 innings,
but the Washington Senators finally won the Series, four
games to three.
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Al Lopez Field: Tampa, Florida
(between 1960 and 1979)
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African American boys watching a baseball game: Apalachicola,
Florida (ca. 1895)
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Al Lang Field: St. Petersburg, Florida
(19--)
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Baseball field: Kissimmee, Florida (ca.1920)
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Seminole Indian chickee huts by baseball field at the Big
Cypress Indian Reservation
(ca. 1980)
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City Island and Islanders Ball Park: Daytona Beach, Florida
(193-)
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Birds eye view of baseball field. St. Petersburg, Florida
(19--)
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Aerial view of Pace Recreation Complex: Milton, Florida
(1981)
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Baseball game at Centennial Field: Tallahassee, Florida
(ca.1935)
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Crowd watching a baseball game in McFarlane Park: Tampa,
Florida (1922)
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Baseball field grandstands: Eustis, Florida (1910)
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Dowdy Field: Hollywood, Florida (1935)
Cleared and reconditioned under FERA project 6-B15-6.
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View of a baseball spring training game: Lakeland, Florida
(1967)
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Aerial view showing Grant Field in the foreground, winter
home of the Toronto Bluejays: Dunedin, Florida (197-)
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Dick Howser baseball stadium, Florida State University:
Tallahassee, Florida (2006)
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Marines having a baseball game in Royal Palm Park: Miami,Florida
(1918)
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