With Neil Park and Eclipse Park III, a bit of a funny set is completed.
I've attached a couple of screenshots from some research I ran across a while ago while working on making
Omaha's Vinton Park. It's from an article from the Omaha Bee from...October 7th? 1917. At least I think that's right--there's no date on the top of the page, and the most recent articles on this page are dated October 6th.
In any case, there's a discussion about the way the ongoing World War might affect the minor leagues in the coming 1918 season, which is of local interest since Omaha played in the Western League, and it wasn't clear if that league would survive and/or if the Omaha team would move up or down a level.
What's of most interest to me here is that one of the drivers for Omaha's situation is what happens to the major leagues. There was
some amount of intrigue going on with the American League in general at this point, which isn't mentioned in the article, but they claim in the article that Ban Johnson (president of the American League) thinks a third major league was on the way. The further claim, though not ascribed to Johnson, is that such a league would have teams in Providence, Baltimore, Toronto, Buffalo, Newark, Columbus, Indianapolis, and Louisville.
So, if anyone ever wanted to explore what an alternate history scenario would look like with three 8-team leagues at peace with one another in 1918, they now have correct parks to do it with.
