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    Shibe Park, (pronounced "shy," ending with a hard "b") known later as Connie Mack Stadium, was a ballpark located in Philadelphia. It was the home of the...
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  • Shibe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ben Shibe (1838–1922), American sporting goods and baseball executive Shibe Park, a former...
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    of the 1905 World Series. Columbia Park fell into disuse after the Athletics' move in 1909 to the larger Shibe Park, and was demolished in the 1910s. During...
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    A's moved into the major leagues' first concrete-and-steel ballpark, Shibe Park. This remains the second and last time in franchise history where a new...
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    Fenway Park is a baseball stadium located in Boston, Massachusetts, less than one mile from Kenmore Square. Since 1912, it has been the ballpark of Major...
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    Braves (4) vs. AL Philadelphia Athletics (0) Games 1 and 2: Shibe Park Games 3 and 4: Fenway Park 26-game winner Dick Rudolph scattered five hits while striking...
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  • Philadelphia's Shibe Park in 1909. It is proposed to open for the 2028 MLB season after the Athletics spend three seasons at West Sacramento's Sutter Health Park. On...
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    of 30,000 seats; the Philadelphia Athletics' Shibe Park sat 23,000, and the Phillies' National League Park sat 18,000. The initial meeting in 1920 favored...
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    several stadiums in the city, including Recreation Park (1883–1886), the Baker Bowl (1887–1938), Shibe Park (later renamed Connie Mack Stadium in 1953 in honor...
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    field wall at Fenway Park in Boston. Notable exceptions include Shibe Park and Comiskey Park, which were built on rectangular city blocks that were large...
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    Shibe Park was named in his honor from 1909 to 1954. Shibe died in 1922, and is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Shibe...
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    games at Shibe Park, which was the home of the Philadelphia Athletics professional baseball in Philadelphia. When negotiations for use of Shibe Park fell...
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    Comiskey Park was a ballpark in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Armour Square neighborhood on the near-southwest side of the city. The stadium served...
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    November 2021. Baker Bowl / Philadelphia Park (aka Philadelphia Grounds) "Phillies Set to Close Deal for Use of Shibe Park". The New York Times. The Associated...
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  • 2–0 start after defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants at Shibe Park. Against New York, the Steagles fumbled ten times (still an NFL record...
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    Philadelphia Athletics (4) vs. NL New York Giants (1) V.I.P.'s attend Game 2 at Shibe Park In the opener, Home Run Baker drove in three runs with three hits for...
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  • stadium in the major leagues, and the second in the American League (after Shibe Park). The previous wooden grandstand was retained as left-field bleachers...
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    in Major League Baseball are listed below. Columbia Park (1901–1908) Shibe Park (1909–1954) Municipal Stadium (1955–1967) Oakland Coliseum (1968–2024)...
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    Candlestick Park was an outdoor stadium on the West Coast of the United States, located in San Francisco's Hunters Point area. The stadium was originally...
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    Club was also entirely renovated and rebranded into Shibe Park Tavern (after their former home park in Philadelphia), the Coliseum's new destination restaurant...
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    improvements to the team and the rapidly crumbling Shibe Park through an alliance with the Shibe heirs. When it became apparent that his older brothers...
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  • World Series. In what would be the last postseason game ever played in Shibe Park, 20-game winner Robin Roberts and Allie Reynolds both pitched outstanding...
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    League Park was a baseball park located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was situated at the northeast corner of Dunham Street (now known as East...
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    House and Gardens in County Westmeath. In the 1930s, an outfield fence on Shibe Park baseball stadium in Philadelphia was raised to 34 feet in order to block...
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    by the mid-1960s, founding owner Clint Murchison, Jr., felt that the Fair Park area of the city had become unsafe and downtrodden, and did not want his...
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    and was the second oldest venue in the National League (Philadelphia's Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium was oldest, having opened only two months prior to...
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    Stadium (Cleveland Rams) Shibe Park (Philadelphia Eagles) Spartan Municipal Stadium (Portsmouth Spartans) Sportsman's Park (St. Louis All-Stars, St....
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  • 1948 Played at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania For third time in the 1948 season, and the second time playing at Shibe Park, the Eagles win...
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    Philadelphia Athletics (4) vs. NL New York Giants (2) 1911 Series: Hot ticket at Shibe Park With a perfect top of the first, Christy Mathewson set the record with...
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  • Stadium, and Shibe Park, as well as itself in the film's opening. Using old photographs and stadium blueprints, Ebbets Field, Shibe Park, The Polo Grounds...
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