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theHandpuppet

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Sat May 24, 2014, 01:15 PM May 2014

Today in history: MLB's first night game, Crosley Field, Cincinnati

Today in history: MLB's first night game at Crosley
The Cincinnati Enquirer
May 24, 2014

This story was originally published by James T. Golden Jr. on May 25, 1935 in The Cincinnati Enquirer

The bands played, President Roosevelt turned on the lights, everybody said "Oh!" in a highly pleased way, Chlozza busted a fast one out towards Cassiopeia's Chair – and 20,422 fans got fandom's first introduction to night baseball in the big leagues.

Whether Cassiopeia was leaning down from her constellation to watch the Redlegs and the Phillies wasn't known, nor was it known whether she could have seen through the light clouds that commenced to drift across from over left field at about the end of the second inning, seeming to stay at about the height of the encircling lights and never dropping below them.

All that the fans cared about was that the visibility was plenty good from the stands and the bleachers, that the field showed up in a more uniform light, green and tan than it does in daytime. It was as brilliant with the trim little white figures running about it, as a new baseball game board in the window of the corner drugstore.

What clouds there were were so thin that the ball, when it flew high, shone through them like a bald head in a steam room. And when there was no mist, the sphere stood out against the sky like a pearl against dark velvet....

MORE at http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/mlb/reds/2014/05/24/crosley-night-game/9534759/
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Today in history: MLB's first night game, Crosley Field, Cincinnati (Original Post) theHandpuppet May 2014 OP
And here it is! yuiyoshida May 2014 #1
Reds won 2-1. Gemini Cat May 2014 #2
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