Baseball Returns to Everett
Jack Healy’s renovated park opens for the season with a hard-fought game against Vancouver.
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Everybody, except the Sunday afternoon class in Bible study, was out at Jack Healy's renovated ball yard to get a line on the young men who will cavort around the field this season. We met Vancouver league and got trimmed, but it was a real ball game, the first of the season. Jack Healy has made over Robbins' park into a real ball yard, leveling the grounds, improving the grandstand and bleachers, building a real fence, and installing an up-to-date score board. In Alois and Singleton, Everett has two good ringers who will do their share of the work. The team looks good, and Healy believes this burg is ripe for baseball if the team delivers the goods. He won't stand for loafing or rowdyism on the field.
“That first 'play ball' after the long winter's rest never fails to ring in your ears as the sweetest piece of music ever heard.”
Everett has a long history of professional and semi-pro baseball passion. While Robbins' Park is long gone, the city's relationship with the diamond remains a community touchstone.
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