Tacoma Joins the Pacific Coast League
Local baseball enthusiasts secure a spot in the big league and plan for a new stadium after the city demands the expansion of a street through their old grounds.
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Tacoma baseball enthusiasts are feeling good these days. At the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast league in San Francisco, the early part of January, Tacoma was admitted into their circuit. Yesterday the old Eleventh street grounds, from which have been heard the voices of rooters for many seasons, were leased again for a ball park. The grounds will not be as large as in former years, since the city has ordered the street which passes through them to be opened, but the park will even then be of sufficient size, as it contains one block. The old bleachers will be torn down, and new double-deckers will take their place. The club will be financed by Tacoma people.
“The grounds will not be as large as in former years, since the city has ordered the street which passes through them to be opened.”
Tacoma's baseball history is deeply embedded in its downtown geography; the challenge of balancing city infrastructure and street expansion with community sports remains a constant tension for modern urban planning.
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