[channeling my mom]Homestead Grays! They were the best![/]
Seriously. Mom grew up in Homestead, and she would always say that any time the subject of the Negro Leagues came up. (And for the record, Mom was white. As am I.)
The other M.L. ball park the Grays called home was Forbes Field -- which was in walking distance from Homestead if you were young and healthy but poor in the Depression like Mom was (but it was a long walk, and I think she took the trolley when she could) -- and if I were to have a pen from a ball park that would be the one. I went to some games there and have fond memories of it.
Forbes Field would be celebrating its 100th birthday next month; it opened June 30, 1909. PNC Park is nice and all, but Forbes was special.
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Seriously. Mom grew up in Homestead, and she would always say that any time the subject of the Negro Leagues came up. (And for the record, Mom was white. As am I.)
The other M.L. ball park the Grays called home was Forbes Field -- which was in walking distance from Homestead if you were young and healthy but poor in the Depression like Mom was (but it was a long walk, and I think she took the trolley when she could) -- and if I were to have a pen from a ball park that would be the one. I went to some games there and have fond memories of it.
Forbes Field would be celebrating its 100th birthday next month; it opened June 30, 1909. PNC Park is nice and all, but Forbes was special.