Clipping:A description of the Washington AA grounds
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| Date | Wednesday, March 12, 1884 |
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| Text | [from an interview of Von der Ahe] It is a splendid, perfectly level inclosure, some 450 x 450 feet; about the same size as the Grand Avenue grounds. The fence is a new and fine one, and at about twenty feet apart are posts, to which will be attached flag-staffs bearing the colors of the different nations. The carriage-way is a very handsome gate, surmounted with crossed bats, with balls, caps and other emblems of the national game, with a handsome United States blaze waving over it. The grand stand is a model, having two tiers of seats, and is strongly constructed without pillars to interfere with the sight of the spectators; the beams and stanchions being strongly bolted and nutted. The skeleton seats extend on eighter side, and the entire seating capacity is about 10,000 persons. At the upper end of the ground is a fine music stand which will accommodate forty-five musicians, and is modeled after the famous stand at Coney Island. About the field is a splendid cinder track for bicycle and foot racing, twenty feet wide, and with several layers of brick and stone, pebbles, gravel and land cement and cinder. It is eighteen inches deep, and cost of itself some $2,100. Col Moxley estimate that he has put $20,000 in his grounds... St. |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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