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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway_Park

April 20th, 1912 Grand Opening of both Detroit Stadium and Fenway Park. Detroit Park would later be renamed Tiger's Stadium and close in 1999.

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[โ€“] DougHolland 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Interesting that both stadiums opened on the same day, but it makes sense -- baseball's opening day. Also noteworthy that both ball parks were constructed at the expense of the team. How quaint, that a company should construct and own its place of business without forcing taxpayers to underwrite it.

Hope you'll keep this subLemmy going, thanks.

[โ€“] Brunbrun6766 0 points 7 months ago

Absolutely plan on continuing to post here. I've started many communities that I've kind of stopped posting in, some are going by themselves, others are dead, but I'm a historian and read these things anyway, so I may as well post about it when I learn something new to me