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Originally Posted by esquire
Do you know why the stadium ended up there? It seems to me that by the time it was built (Wikipedia says it opened in 1932), that would have been a bit of an odd choice for a location given that the site was obviously cramped and in a fairly prime position directly across from the Legislature.
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It was a big field owned by Shea’s and I believe someone started holding dog races there which eventually morphed into a stadium. It wasn’t a civic enterprise of any kind, as far as I know. Someone just decided to build a playing field and went ahead and did so. There were several small stadiums for baseball around town in those days.