Clipping:A railroad owns part of the Boston grounds; park factor
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| Date | Tuesday, April 7, 1885 |
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| Text | It appears that the Providence railroad corporation owns a strip of land about sixteen feet in width now included within the inclosure of the Boston base ballgrounds. Yesterday morning, without a moment's notice to the officials of the club, a gang of workmen employed by the railroad corporation obtained entrance to the grounds by tearing away a board in the lower fence, and began digging away the earth preparatory to erecting a fence. The line of land owned by the railroad folks takes in the new left field fence and quite a number of seats back of third base; consequently the club will have to pull down its fence and the seat on the left hand side of the grounds, and move all forward about seventeen or eighteen feel. This will, of course, make the ball grounds narrower by the distance stated, and more home runs will probably result thereby. |
| Source | Boston Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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