Hi all!
First off, I'd like to wish a Veterans Day (or Armistice Day for non-US folks) that is happy, peaceful, meaningful, or restful, or whatever you're hoping for.
After a partly-unintended break, I'm happy to post another 19th century park: Indianapolis's
Tinker Park. I'm trying to be careful here, since I relatively recently posted Orlando's Tinker Field, which was a Spring Training field for most of the 20th century, in the Jazz Age thread.
This Tinker Park, also known as Athletic Park and Seventh Street Park, was the weekday home to a few different MLB-level Indianapolis teams: first the 1884 American Association team, followed by the 1887-1889 NL Hoosiers. The 1885 Western League team also played here. Once source claims that the pre-1888 and 1888-1889 parks are different, and Wikipedia talks about a realignment, but most sources (including Wikipedia) say there was just one park for the whole period. The Sanborn Map I'm using (and show below) is from 1887 and I made the park in that pre-1888 alignment for what that's worth.
Google Drive link to
Indianapolis Tinker Park
Not too much else to say--I extended the foul line distances beyond the historical ones to make sure the outfielders would be on the field rather than hanging out beyond the fence. Other than the Sanborn map, I'm not aware of any depictions other than what Jamesdyl17 posted the other day. It doesn't quite match what the Sanborn map has (for instance, the map explicitly notes open stands in areas where the artist's depiction shows covered ones), so perhaps the map is from an earlier time? This model also is missing the turrets in that sketch. In any case, since I'd gotten this one mostly done before seeing that sketch I'm going to stick with this. Maybe there will be a version 2 sometime.
With this park, we now have a complete set of NL parks (mostly historical, with only 1-2 kludges) back to 1887 (plus 1883). There are two AA seasons with a complete set of ballparks (1882 and 1885). As noted, I'm planning to tackle Worcester next, then probably the Columbus 1889-1891 park. After that there are a few 1-2 season parks in unrepresented cities that I think I have enough information to at least try, but I may jump to St. George's Grounds since that would complete a couple more AA seasons...