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Forbes Field was the site of yet another broadcasting first when on October 8, 1921, Harold W. Arlin announced live play-by-play action of the Pitt-West Virginia football game on radio station KDKA, the first live radio broadcast of a college football game in the United States. Duquesne University also played many of their home games there in the 1930s and 1940s.
Opening on Top. On June 30, 1909, Forbes Field opened for the masses as the Chicago Cubs came to town. The 25,000 seats, constituting the largest capacity within the majors at the moment, would quickly fill; overflow attendees, some sitting on a grassy warning track incline in left field, would bump the crowd to 30,388—topping the all-time mark for single-game attendance by just 141 over the ...
Forbes Field’s grandstand was designed by Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr and constructed by Nicola Building Company in 122 days. It was the best stadium in the major league at that time and the first to have ramps and elevators. The Field had a huge playing surface. A batting cage was placed in the deepest area of the center field during the games.
Jul 3, 2018 · Produced at a cost of $315,248.69, Shibe Park was described as the finest American ballpark when it opened on April 12, 1909. It featured French Renaissance flourishes and was designed with an intended permanence not previously found in other American ballparks. 4. Nevertheless, the scope and scale of Forbes Field’s construction dwarfed the ...
Opening day, June 30, 1909, was a beautiful occasion for a baseball game. The sky was cloudless and the air was warm. Fans began arriving at the park at 9:00 in the morning to wait in line for general admission and bleacher tickets. When the ticket windows opened at 10:00, the people were overflowing into the streets.
Jun 17, 2021 · After an exhaustive search for an architect to build his new field, Dreyfuss chose Charles Wellford Leavitt, Jr., a 38-year-old, New York City civil engineer. Leavitt, preferred to think of himself, not as an architect, but rather as a “landscape design specialist.” Leavitt’s final design was elegantly simplistic.
Forbes Field was a monster of a ballpark. The outfield wall in left field stood 360 feet from home plate—and that was the shortest distance to the stands. The right-field line was 376 feet away; straightaway center was 442 feet away. The farthest point was in left-center field, an astounding 462 feet away.
