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Fairview Park Fair Grounds

Dover, DE · 1875–1875

Archive ground · visual record pending Fairview Park Fair Grounds

Dover, DE

1875–1875

No rights-cleared, venue-specific photograph was found. This identification plate uses only verified archive data and is not a reconstruction of the ground.

Fairview Park Fair Grounds was a ballpark in Dover, DE. The register places a single major-league date here, June 24, 1875. The register files it under the National Association.

1 major-league game in this archive was played here, in 1875. The park register names the Philadelphia Athletics as having played here.

The earliest game in the Retrosheet logs was on June 24, 1875, when the Philadelphia Athletics beat the New Haven Elm Citys 12–1. Tricky Nichols started for the New Haven Elm Citys and Dick McBride for the Philadelphia Athletics. S. L. Kahn was the plate umpire.

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