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The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in the American Association (AA) throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891. They were known as the Louisville Eclipse from 1882 to 1884, and as the Louisville Colonels from 1885 to 1891; the latter name derived from the historic title of the Kentucky ...
The Signature Wall at Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory. Honus Wagner was the first player to sign a promotional contract with Hillerich & Bradsby in 1905, becoming the first athlete to endorse a product in history. World's Largest Baseball Bat – Guinness World Records for largest baseball bat is 120 ft. tall. and weighs 68,000 pounds. [20]
Sports in Louisville, Kentucky include amateur and professional sports in baseball, football, basketball, horse racing, horse shows, ice hockey, soccer and lacrosse. The city of Louisville and the Louisville metropolitan area have a sporting history from the mid-19th century to the present day. Louisville Slugger Field, where the Louisville ...
Spalding Hall in Bardstown, which houses both the Bardstown Historical Museum and the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, [1] located on Louisville's Whiskey Row, featuring bourbon history and tastings, and interprets Louisville's wharf history in the 1790s; Heaven Hill Distilleries Bourbon Heritage Center [2]
Cardinal Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Louisville, Kentucky. It was on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, and was called Fairgrounds Stadium when it first opened for an NFL exhibition football game between the Baltimore Colts and Philadelphia Eagles on September 9, 1956. [1] It was demolished in 2019. [2]
More than a century of images have been captured by Courier Journal photographers. See key moments in local history through a photojournalist's lens. Louisville history: A century of life in Derby ...
Parkway Field is the name of a baseball park that stood in Louisville, Kentucky on the University of Louisville campus. It was home to college, minor league, and negro league teams, with the longest stints by the Louisville Colonels of the American Association from 1923 into the mid-1950s, and the University of Louisville baseball team for several decades until they abandoned it in 1998 in ...
The district's second-oldest school is in Louisville's Tyler Park neighborhood along Lucia Avenue. Bloom was built in 1896, making the large brick school 127 years old. Approximately 550 students ...