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177:. The greenway through the middle of the terminal parking lot serves as a last vestige of Lincoln Park. A plaque on the site, honoring the Red Stockings, states that the diamond and the main stands faced the northwest. That would be at the corner of Hopkins Street and Lincoln Place, with Hoefer/Dalton the left field boundary and Kenner the right field boundary. 134:. It was a twenty-minute ride by streetcar to the Union Grounds from the heart of downtown Cincinnati. Aaron Champion ordered that approximately $ 10,000 worth of improvements be made to the home grounds for the 1867 season, including grading and sodding of the field and building of a new clubhouse and stands. 154:
as the "home" team. Those were the two clubs that most of the 1869–70 Cincinnati Red Stockings players had joined when the Cincinnati club disbanded after the 1870 season. The previous day, those former members of the Red Stockings had played an exhibition game against the other members of the Boston
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A year later the leased the grounds of the Union Cricket Club for its home tilts. Most club members referred to the field as the Union Grounds, although it also was known as the Union Cricket Club Grounds and the Lincoln Park Grounds, given the fact that the eight-acre, fenced grounds were located
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Lincoln Park was bounded by Kenner Street (north); Freeman Avenue (east); Hopkins Street (south); and Hoefer Street (later Dalton Street) (west). Old maps show the western one-third of the park designated as "ball field". A road called Lincoln Place (which no longer exists) separated the main park
287: 117:. The Grounds were built for the Union Cricket Club in 1856; they "were used for cricket and baseball in the summer and were flooded for skating in the winter." In 1865 315: 143: 366: 125:, "approached Wright to propose a limited use of the grounds if the CBBC and Live Oaks club would put in $ 2000 each to revamp the Lincoln Park Grounds." 386: 121:
became the professional of the Cincinnati Cricket Club, which also used the grounds, and the next year Aaron Champion, president of the new
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and Olympic clubs, advertised as the "Old Reds" against a "picked nine". The "picked nine" won the game 15–13.(Cincinnati
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games in the spring and summer of 1871. One of them was held on July 4, featuring the
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Lincoln Park itself was eventually closed and its property became the site of the
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The Union Grounds were used until 1875; the next year a new
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in a small park behind Lincoln Park in Cincinnati, near the
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Capacity
Cincinnati Red Stockings
baseball
Lincoln Park
Cincinnati, Ohio
Harry Wright
Cincinnati Base Ball Club
Union Terminal
National Association
Boston Red Stockings
Washington Olympics
Cincinnati Red Stockings
Avenue Grounds
Cincinnati Union Terminal
ISBN
0-7864-1561-4
ISBN
0-7864-0467-1
"Lincoln Park Grounds in Cincinnati, OH"
Retrosheet
Reds Ballparks
Live Oaks Base Ball Grounds
Cincinnati Red Stockings
39°06′32.23″N 84°31′56.97″W / 39.1089528°N 84.5324917°W / 39.1089528; -84.5324917
Information about the historical marker
Categories
Defunct baseball venues in the United States
Sports venues in Cincinnati
Baseball in Cincinnati

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