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Exposition Park was the name given to three historic stadiums, located in what is today Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The fields were used mainly for professional baseball and American football from c. 1879 to c. 1915.
In fact, the Exposition Society was an outgrowth of an association that conducted the earlier expositions on the city's North Shore, on the spot where Exposition Park, the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates until 1909, stood. The society was a non-profit-sharing organization, having been established by public-spirited citizens for the benefit of ...
Exposition Park (urban park), a public museum and sport complex the Los Angeles neighborhood of the same name; ... Exposition Park (Pittsburgh), a former baseball ...
On October 1, Grove City College visited Exposition Park to play the 1904 Western University of Pennsylvania football team. More than 1500 spectators ventured to the stadium for the opening game of the season.
The team played its home games at Exposition Park in Pittsburgh. In its third season under head coach Arthur Mosse, the team compiled an 11–2 record, shut out ten of its thirteen opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 435 to 46.
A proposal for a new sports stadium in Pittsburgh was first made in 1948; however, plans did not attract much attention until the late 1950s. [9] The Pittsburgh Pirates played their home games at Forbes Field, which opened in 1909, [10] and was the second oldest venue in the National League (Philadelphia's Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium was oldest, having opened only two months prior to Forbes).
Pittsburgh Black Theatre Dance Ensemble; Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School (current) Pittsburgh Dance Council (current) Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre (current) Pittsburgh Laboratory Theatre; Pittsburgh Metropolitan Stage Company; Pittsburgh Musical Theater (current) Pittsburgh New Works Festival (current) Pittsburgh Opera
The first World Series was played at Exposition Park by the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Americans (now known as the Boston Red Sox) in 1903. Gus & Yia-Yia's Iceball Stand, selling fresh popcorn, peanuts, and old-fashioned iceballs (similar to snow cones) hand-scraped from a block of ice, has been in West Park since 1934.