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[QUOTE="Orangedontrhyme, post: 4690679, member: 459"]
More about my Gloversville - Baseball:

Across from this museum is a baseball field, built in 1906, one of the oldest in the nation, host to a local team back then, and in its early days visited by major league teams on exhibition including their big league stars.  Little league has played there since 1955.  The field, Parkhurst Field, has just been renovated, including the construction of a new stadium.  Plans are to invite children's baseball from all over the nation, to have it a center for youngsters to play ball in tournaments.  I think it and the museum have great potential, and the local people behind the not-for-profit venture mean business.  I've added my support.

Being the former glove making center of the world, Gloversville and Johnstown manufactured sporting equipment made of leather, ie footballs, basketballs, baseballs, boxing gloves, etc and baseball gloves,  One of the leading baseball glove manufacturers was operated by Allen Kennedy, an SU grad and 1913 basketball player at SU.  His company and other locals developed the baseball glove, including patented items.  Famous major league stars would visit here to have a manufacturer add a modification to their glove to improve performance, which later would become a standard for all the gloves.

So, out of the past, an old baseball field and baseball gloves long gone, comes a a baseball museum and a children's ball park.  Let's hope for their success. Gloversville is trying, folks.
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