This was quite a common thing throughout America. Many companies based in towns where
there was little entertainment, kept up their employee's spirits by building
baseball stadiums to host leagues and tournaments. Firestone Stadium in Akron
Ohio and the many ballparks created and utilized by the cotton mills of the southeast
are perfect examples of these types of facilities. Interestingly enough,
many of them were better than local professional facilities, because they were
built with the private funds of their very rich companies... and not whatever
the local goverment could "publicly afford" to lay out. |