Baseball at Pastime Park
Everett and Snohomish join forces to form a new league team with a permanent home.
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Snohomish and Everett baseball clubs are to consolidate as one strong team and join the Amateur League the coming season. Already, grounds have been secured in Snohomish, and arrangements have been made to put them in the best possible shape. The park is to be known as Pastime Park. A joint stock company has been organized with a capital stock of $10,000 for the purpose of operating the grounds, fitting them for ball playing and a race course, and to make the park a permanent institution. Arrangements are now being made with the Everett & Monte Cristo Railway Company to bring the Everett members of the team to this city for daily practice at reduced rates.
“A joint stock company has been organized... for the purpose of operating the grounds, fitting them for ball playing and a race course, and to make the park a permanent institution.”
The dream of local baseball as a 'permanent institution' in the Snohomish Valley echoes the long history of community athletics in the Pacific Northwest, where railroad lines often served as the primary infrastructure connecting competing towns for leisure and sport.
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