RER
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Post by RER on Apr 29, 2010 18:29:11 GMT -5
David, Jack is correct on Lincoln Park. But, the other I have no idea. I didn't play baseball or softball at the Lincoln fields, so I have not knowledge of what went on. I do remember skating on the Ice when it first opened. I further remember high school Basketball Coach Bill Stearman and his wife Maggie (my Aunt) skating on the ice when it first opened.
Bob
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2010 20:24:32 GMT -5
David,
I believe Jack is correct on Lincoln Park and the Skating Rink. There was a ball diamond at Donner Park in the 40's and maybe on in to the 50's, it was on the east side of the pool.
George
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Post by RER on Apr 29, 2010 20:24:37 GMT -5
History From The Middle 1950s (Lincoln Park)
My brother said the Merchants Baseball was played at the 8th Street ball park during the 1950s. According, to his memory they never played at the fields on the 25th Street Lincoln Park fields.
The Police Athletic League (PAL) and others played at Lincoln Park. My brother played some PAL games at Lincoln Park. He was a pitcher, and Buck Smith’s father was the coach. The Buck and Bill Smith brothers were good athletes from CHS during those days.
He also, skated on the new developed Ice Rink when home from the Citadel Military College of Charleston South Carolina one winter. That was the only time he skated there, but didn’t see many people he knew. That was 1958 for the skating situation.
As George stated there was a ball field East of the Donner Pool area. I remember grade school teams played on that field. When I was at Clifty Grade School I remember pitching softball underhand during a couple games on that field, against another grade school. That was during the early part of the 1950s, but before 1955. I can't remember all the Clifty players, but am sure Jeff Crump probably played on our team. Jeff has alway been high on ball and still plays baseball today, as he has indicated to me at times.
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Post by David Sechrest on Apr 29, 2010 20:55:26 GMT -5
I remember that ball field at Donner Park. I believe it was still around when I was in high school.
Thanks for all the info, everybody! I appreciate it. I'm just trying to get a handle on the Columbus parks of the time.
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Post by David Sechrest on Apr 29, 2010 21:55:31 GMT -5
Jack said: I AM NOT THE FINAL WORD BUT LINCOLN PARK WAS THERE FIRST
That may explain why the ice rink was never named after B. F. Hamilton. When that announcement in the Billboard was made, it stated a site had yet to be picked out for the rink. It will be interesting to see if this story can be followed through The Evening Republican to see what other sites were considered. Since those in charge selected Lincoln Park as the place to build it, just maybe there was a problem with using the name Hamilton for the rink.
Nothing more than thinking aloud here...
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Post by jdhinkle on May 2, 2010 11:39:53 GMT -5
AS I WAS ASKING ABOUT CRUMP CORNER I WAS TRYING TO DETERMINE IF LINCOLN PARK WAS NAMED FOR WM LINCOLN OF THE LINCOLN CHAIR CO OR FOR THE FAMOUS PRESIDENT ABE
IN A DISCUSSION WITH MY AUNT AND HER COUSIN THE QUESTION CAME UP THAT THE GRADE SCHOOL WERE NAMED AFTER PRESIDENTS BUT THE FAMOUS PARK WAS NAMED AFTER THE DONOR MR DONNER
ONE COMMENT I GOT WAS LINCOLN PARK WAS GIVEN TO THE CITY BY THE IRWIN SWEENEY MILLER FOUNDATION BUT I CANT GET ANY RESPONSE ON WHY IT WAS NAMED LINCOLN PARK
WONDER IF THERE ARE OLD RECORDS OF THE EVENT HAD TO BE BEFORE 1950
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Post by jdhinkle on Jul 24, 2010 13:11:51 GMT -5
I THOUGHT I WOULD ADD ANOTHER PICTURE OF ONE OF THE TEAMS I WAS A PART OF THE ARTICLE IS DATED AUGUST 1957. SINCE FOOTBALL STARTED AUG 15TH BACK IN THOSE DAYS I ASSUME I MANAGED TO GET TO FOOTBALL PRACTICE ON TIME THE HANDSOME GUY IN THE CATCHERS GEAR WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT ONE MONTH SHORT OF BEING 15 THE NAMES ARE PROVIDED IN THE ARTICLE I WANTED TO POINT OUT THE GUY WITH THAT HAT WITH AN 'M' IS GENE DICKEY SON OF EARL DICKEY WHO MADE THE DIAMONDS PLAYABLE OVER MY EARLY YEARS
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Post by richard on Nov 6, 2010 9:26:25 GMT -5
The following appeared in The Republic’s, Looking Back column on November 6, 2010. The information was from this date in 1960.
Two years after the Ice Rink opened, Mayor E. A. Welmer and Park Board President Robert Spurgin, for the City of Columbus, formally took ownership of the Lincoln Center Ice Rink. The sons of B. F. Hamilton, William, Earl and Clarence Hamilton made the donation.
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