Next up is Baltimore's
Newington Park, the first home to professional baseball in Charm City. It hosted the
Canaries of the National Association from 1872-1874, and the
1882 Orioles.
Google Drive Link to Newington Park
There are no photos or contemporary depictions of the park that I could find. It is listed (as the Peabody Baseball Grounds) on a map from the time period (which I show below), and an artist's rendition from much, much later (also shown below). In the end, I didn't use that artist's rendition at all, instead using period descriptions that were
listed on the Protoball site (which is also fun browsing). The details are inspired by
Boston's original South End Grounds, built around the same time. Since there's mention of other buildings on the grounds and a large clubhouse, I stuck those on.
This should leave just Philadelphia's Oakdale Park and the original Polo Grounds from Garlon's list, and the latter is being tackled by other folks as I understand it. I anticipate spending more of my modeling time in the other thread once I get Oakdale done, but as I've said elsewhere we'll keep this thread going for other 19th century parks that Dswans and I (and anyone else!) can get done...