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Opening day photo from the Inquirer

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I found this photo of opening day, 26 April 1901, in the next day's Philadelphia Inquirer.

Partial page view from the Philadelphia Inquirer, April 27, 1901, including a picture from opening day of Columbia Park, the first home of the Philadelphia Athletics

So I scanned and uploaded it. I'm thinking it would make a nice addition to the article.

The houses in the background are along the east side of 29th Street. The rightmost is gone but the three three-story ones north of it, and the two-story ones beyond those, are still there. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9808943,-75.1821179,3a,75y,140.96h,87.78t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sRPR2V9pmzHvjtOCtFcwi_A!2e0 TypoBoy (talk) 03:13, 15 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

I added the opening-day picture to the article. Also, I created the category "Columbia Park" at Wikimedia Commons, and added the images I scanned from the Inquirer, along with the two images that the article already had, to it. The images I added include both the photograph and images of the articles (one of which, unfortunately, I cut off partway through the box score. D'oh!) The prose was enjoyable; sportswriters were apparently as goofy then as they are today. That plus a dash of old-timey news talk equals awesome.

I also broke the article into sections, with headers (so that Wikipedia added a table of contents), added content and citations, and edited copy and links. I hope folks like the changes. Of course, this being Wikipedia, they can change what they don't like.

I have the good fortune of having access to a library with a lot of relevant microfilm. So I'm inclined to check other Philadelphia newspapers for their opening day coverage, and also look for coverage of the two World Series games (played on the 9th and 12th of October 1905, and presumably covered in the Philadelphia and possibly New York papers the next day). I'll upload anything I find to the category.

I'll also check my local public library for relevant books. (They use the Dewey Decimal System, so I'm looking for call number 796.357. The equivalent call number in the Library of Congress Classification is GV879.5.) TypoBoy (talk) 15:58, 17 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

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