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Hilltop Park

New York, NY · 1903–1912

Hilltop Park
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74
Games on file
1912
First
1912
Last

Hilltop Park was a ballpark in New York, NY. The first major-league game the register places here was on April 30, 1903 and the last on October 5, 1912.

776 major-league games in this archive were played here, between 1903 and 1912. The game logs list the New York Highlanders as the home club here. Its recorded capacity is 16,000. 1 game played here has a page of its own in this archive: Bert Daniels Hits for the Cycle, 1912 in 1912.

The earliest game in the Retrosheet logs was on April 30, 1903, when the New York Highlanders beat the Washington Senators 6–2. Happy Townsend started for the Washington Senators and Jack Chesbro for the New York Highlanders. Tommy Connolly was the plate umpire. The latest game in the Retrosheet logs was on October 5, 1912, when the New York Highlanders beat the Washington Senators 8–6. The largest announced attendance in the available logs was 35,000, for a game between the Boston Americans and the New York Highlanders on October 10, 1904.

The major leagues also played in New York, NY at Polo Grounds I (Southeast Diamond) (1883–1888), Polo Grounds II (Southwest Diamond) (1883–1883), Metropolitan Park (1884–1884), St. George Cricket Grounds (1886–1889), and Polo Grounds III (1889–1890), and 6 other grounds.

Home clubs

Games remembered here

1912

Bert Daniels Hits for the Cycle, 1912

Bert Daniels hit for the cycle for the New York Highlanders against the Chicago White Sox on July 25, 1912.

Further reading: Wikipedia