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44th and Parkside Ballpark

The P.R.R. YMCA Athletic Field, also known as Penmar Park and commonly referred to in the 1930s and 1940s as the 44th and Parkside ballpark, was an athletic field and ballpark in West Philadelphia from as early as the 1890s to the early 1950s. It was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA for use by its employees. Behind the right-field fence stood the roundhouse of the main yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad.[1] The Negro league baseball Philadelphia Stars played home games at the park from 1936 until 1952.

44th and Parkside ballpark
Full nameP.R.R. YMCA Athletic Field
LocationSouthwest corner, Belmont and Parkside Avenues
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131
United States
Coordinates39°58′39″N 75°12′50″W / 39.9775°N 75.2138°W / 39.9775; -75.2138
OwnerPennsylvania Railroad
Capacity6,000
Field sizeLeft - 330 ft.

Center - 410 ft.

Right - 310 ft.
Surfacegrass
Construction
OpenedMay 2, 1903
Expanded1920s
Tenants
Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA of Philadelphia, 1903-1905
Philadelphia Stars, 1934-1949

PRR Football edit

The Pennsylvania Railroad supported its employees through its sponsorship of the Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA. Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA building was located at 41st Street and Westminster Avenue in West Philadelphia and was dedicated in 1894. Also that year, the YMCA began to sponsor the Pennsylvania Railroad's employee football team which had existed since 1886. This Railroad-YMCA team played against local college and athletic club teams. Players were former college players employed by the Railroad. (A similar club composed of players who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Panhandle Division" in Ohio would enter the National Football League as the Columbus Panhandles.) The "Railroaders" played home games until 1902 at a field at 52nd and Jefferson Streets.

The YMCA maintained athletic fields at Belmont Avenue and Elm Street as early as the 1880s.[2] The grounds were reported as renovated for the new season as early as 1891.[3]

The YMCA dedicated the field at Belmont and Parkside Avenues on May 2, 1903.[4]

Community Use edit

The field was used as a multi-sport athletic field by the local community.

The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy held 1906 Commencement Week "Athletic Games" at the field.[5] The College of Pharmacy's baseball team would face the New York College of Pharmacy's team in April 1910 at what was referred to as the "P.R.R. grounds".[6]

A fire in 1922 prior to the start of the baseball season destroyed half the backstop and swept across the stands. The grandstand had not yet been repaired when Friends' Central School's baseball team opened its season against Chestnut Hill Academy on April 11, 1922.[7]

The grandstands would be builtout in the 1920s and lights were added in 1933.[8] Ballpark capacity is said to have been 5,000[9] to 6,000 people. Overflow crowds brought attendance to 10,000.[10]

During the 1930s, Overbrook High School and St. Joseph's Preparatory School played their home football games at the field, and Overbrook played baseball there. The independent Norfolk Black Bombers all-Black barnstorming football team played the Washington Willow Trees on Thanksgiving Day 1942 at the park.[11] Stars co-owner Eddie Gottlieb organized a semi-professional baseball team called the "All-Phillies" which played at the field in its later years.[9]

Philadelphia Stars Baseball edit

 
Philadelphia Stars Negro National League 1938 cap logo.

The Philadelphia Stars Negro league baseball team had been founded in 1933 by Ed Bolden and initially played their home games at Passon Field at the current site of West Philadelphia High School's Pollock Field.

The ballpark hosted Game 2, 6, and 7 of the 1935 Negro National League Championship Series, which matched the Pittsburgh Crawfords against the New York Cubans that saw the Crawfords overcome a 3-1 series deficit to win the league pennant.[12]

In 1936, the Stars moved to 44th and Parkside Ballpark where they played the majority of their home games through 1947 when they lost their lease.[13]

The ballpark was owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad and Stars co-owner Eddie Gottlieb leased it from the Railroad for the club. The Stars played their home games at the ballpark with the exception of Monday nights when the Stars would play in North Philadelphia at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics and starting in 1938, the Philadelphia Phillies.[14]

Biographer Mark Ribowsky documented that Pittsburgh Crawfords catcher Josh Gibson hit a long home run in a game against the Stars early in the 1936 season that flew out of the ballpark.[15]

The ballpark was home to another famous incident, in which Satchel Paige was working on a perfect game through eight innings pitching for the Stars in a non-league exhibition game. In the ninth, after three intentional walks, Paige was so sure of himself that he told his seven fielders to lie down on the field. Paige then struck out the side on nine pitches.[8]

Negro World Series games were often played at neutral game-sites to attract larger crowds. The Cleveland Buckeyes beat the Homestead Grays in game 4 of the 1945 Series at 44th and Parkside. Game 3 of the 1947 Series was also played at the Park in which the Buckeyes faced the New York Cubans.

The ballpark remained sturdy despite a woman named Miss Hattie Williams chopping wood from the grandstand with a hatchet to heat the washtub where she cooked the hot dogs for her concession stand behind home plate.[8]

Stars player Stanley Glenn recalled the smoke and soot from the coal-powered locomotives in the train yard behind the right field forcing the Stars to stop games until the smoke cleared.[16] The field was rarely manicured and the grass growing high.[17]

Negro League Memorial Park and Mural edit

African American Baseball in Philadelphia
 
"African American Baseball in Philadelphia", Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, (1998) at Belmont and Parkside Avenues, Philadelphia, PA 19131 photographed May 24, 2011.
 
 
LocationSW corner, Belmont & Parkside Aves., Philadelphia
Coordinates39°58′39″N 75°12′50″W / 39.9775°N 75.2138°W / 39.9775; -75.2138
PHMC dedicatedApril 25, 1998

Today at 44th and Parkside is the Philadelphia Stars Negro League Memorial Park.

In 2004, West Philadelphia's Business Association of West Parkside led a coalition of local groups in building the park. The Philadelphia Building Trades Council donated $150,000 in labor for construction.[18] A black-tie dinner was held on September 2, 2004 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, near the site of the ballpark, to raise money for the Memorial Park. The dinner honored former players Bill Cash, Stanley Glenn, Harold Gould, and Wilmer Harris.[19]

At the site of the Park are three tributes to the Philadelphia Stars and Negro leagues' baseball in Philadelphia. There is a Pennsylvania Historic Site marker, a Negro Leagues Memorial Statue, and Philadelphia MuralArts program mural celebrating the Stars. The Stars Memorial Park and the Stars Mural straddle either side of Belmont Avenue as one crosses Parkside Avenue traveling west.

A Pennsylvania Historical marker was dedicated at Belmont and Parkside Avenues on April 25, 1998. The marker is titled, "African American Baseball in Philadelphia" and the text reads,

For 85 years, starting with the Pythians and Excelsiors in 1867, Black ball clubs were a significant part of the Philadelphia scene. The Giants, formed 1902, were soon "World's Colored Champions." The Hilldales, Eastern Colored League Champions, 1923-25, won the Colored World Series, 1925. The Philadelphia Stars from 1933-52; they were in the Negro National League, 1933-48, & many of their games took place at this site.[20]

Memorial Statue edit

A 7-foot high statue featuring a ballplayer following through on his swing stands in the Memorial Park. The Phillies hosted the dedication of the statue on June 18, 2003 at Veterans Stadium. Mayor John Street and Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins attended the unveiling of the statue, along with the then living members of the Stars, Bill Cash, Mahlon Duckett, Stanley Glenn, Harold Gould, and Wilmer Harris. The Phillies committed to pay for the maintenance and upkeep of the statue for a period of 10 years.[21]

The statue was unveiled and placed upon its pedestal at 44th and Belmont Avenues on April 15, 2005. Cash, Duckett, Gould, and Glenn all attended the ceremony. Wilmer Harris had died in December 2004. Phillies hitting coach Milt Thompson, whose father and grandfather played in the Negro leagues, attended as did Rollins and former Phillies player Garry Maddox.[22]

The statue was sculpted by artist and Philadelphia native Phil Sumpter. Sumpter also designed the Judy Johnson statue at Wilmington's Frawley Stadium and a Roberto Clemente statue which stands at Third and Erie Streets in Philadelphia.[21]

Mural edit

 
Philadelphia MuralArts Philadelphia Stars mural by David McShane at Belmont and Parkside Avenues. Photo May 24, 2011.

Across Belmont Avenue from the Memorial Park is the mural "Philadelphia Stars: a tribute to Negro League baseball". The mural is part of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. It was painted by Philadelphia artist David McShane, and dedicated on September 19, 2006.[23] The mural has been described as an "impressionistic collage of scenes"; McShane consulted with surviving Stars players on their memories of the ballpark before creating the work.[17] The mural was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Philadelphia Green Program, the Philadelphia Department of Human Services, the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative, and the Business Association of West Parkside (which had also organized the creation of the Memorial Park). Former Stars players Glenn, Gould, Cash, and Duckett attended the dedication, as well as Phillies players Michael Bourn, Chris Roberson, and the artist McShane.[23]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. p. 78.
  2. ^ "Scraps of All Sports". Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 17, 1889. p. 6.
  3. ^ "Y.M.C.A. Athletic Grounds". Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 16, 1891. p. 3.
  4. ^ Fenton, John (2007). "Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA of Philadelphia, PA". Ghosts of the Gridiron. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  5. ^ Philadelphia College of Pharmacy Alumni Association (May 1906). "Field Day". Alumni Report. 42 (5): 113. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
  6. ^ "Drug Mixers Defeat New York Concocters and Then Take Tea". Philadelphia Inquirer. April 13, 1910. p. 10.
  7. ^ "Hallowell Captain At Friends' Central". Philadelphia Inquirer. April 9, 1922. p. 20.
  8. ^ a b c Lowry, Philip (2006). Green Cathedrals. Walker & Company and SABR. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-8027-1608-8.
  9. ^ a b Westcott, Rich (1996). Philadelphia's Old Ballparks. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. pp. 6, 7. ISBN 1-56639-454-6.
  10. ^ Westcott, Rich (2001). A Century of Philadelphia Sports. Temple University Press. pp. 2, 3. ISBN 1-56639-861-4.
  11. ^ "Norfolk Pro Eleven Set for All Foes". The Afro American. 1942-11-17. p. 23.
  12. ^ "1935 Negro League World Series".
  13. ^ Healy, Paul (2003–2005). "Passon Field". Project Ballpark. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  14. ^ Hochman, Stan (2004-08-03). . Philadelphia Daily News. Archived from the original on 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  15. ^ Robowsky, Mark (2004). Josh Gibson: The Power and the Darkness. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07224-6.
  16. ^ Glenn, Stanley (2006). Don't Let Anyone Take Your Joy Away: An inside look at Negro League baseball and its legacy. iUniverse, Inc. p. 29. ISBN 0-595-67777-0.
  17. ^ a b Strauss, Robert (2009-04-03). "Baseball all around; Our Phab Phils are back, and you can get into the game at museums, murals and more". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2009-04-06.[dead link]
  18. ^ Smith, Elmer (2004-10-06). . Philadelphia Daily News. Archived from the original on 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
  19. ^ Hochman, Stan (2004-08-04). . Philadelphia Daily News. Archived from the original on 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
  20. ^ "African American Baseball in Philadelphia". Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved 2009-01-14.[dead link]
  21. ^ a b . Philadelphia Phillies. 2003-06-10. Archived from the original on 2016-01-14. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
  22. ^ Santoliquito, Joseph (2005-04-15). "Philly Negro League stars honored". MLB.com. Retrieved 2009-01-14.[permanent dead link]
  23. ^ a b "Mural arts program dedicates Negro League mural: Philadelphia Stars Negro League team members and Phillies to gather at dedication". Philadelphia Phillies. 2006-09-18. Retrieved 2009-01-15.

39°58′39″N 75°12′50″W / 39.9775°N 75.2138°W / 39.9775; -75.2138

External links edit

  • Gallery of photographs of mural and statue at 44th and Parkside Avenues.
  • Review and Photos from BallparkReviews.com

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The P R R YMCA Athletic Field also known as Penmar Park and commonly referred to in the 1930s and 1940s as the 44th and Parkside ballpark was an athletic field and ballpark in West Philadelphia from as early as the 1890s to the early 1950s It was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA for use by its employees Behind the right field fence stood the roundhouse of the main yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1 The Negro league baseball Philadelphia Stars played home games at the park from 1936 until 1952 44th and Parkside ballparkFull nameP R R YMCA Athletic FieldLocationSouthwest corner Belmont and Parkside AvenuesPhiladelphia Pennsylvania 19131United StatesCoordinates39 58 39 N 75 12 50 W 39 9775 N 75 2138 W 39 9775 75 2138OwnerPennsylvania RailroadCapacity6 000Field sizeLeft 330 ft Center 410 ft Right 310 ft SurfacegrassConstructionOpenedMay 2 1903Expanded1920sTenantsPennsylvania Railroad YMCA of Philadelphia 1903 1905Philadelphia Stars 1934 1949 Contents 1 PRR Football 2 Community Use 3 Philadelphia Stars Baseball 4 Negro League Memorial Park and Mural 4 1 Memorial Statue 4 2 Mural 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksPRR Football editThe Pennsylvania Railroad supported its employees through its sponsorship of the Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA Philadelphia s Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA building was located at 41st Street and Westminster Avenue in West Philadelphia and was dedicated in 1894 Also that year the YMCA began to sponsor the Pennsylvania Railroad s employee football team which had existed since 1886 This Railroad YMCA team played against local college and athletic club teams Players were former college players employed by the Railroad A similar club composed of players who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad s Panhandle Division in Ohio would enter the National Football League as the Columbus Panhandles The Railroaders played home games until 1902 at a field at 52nd and Jefferson Streets The YMCA maintained athletic fields at Belmont Avenue and Elm Street as early as the 1880s 2 The grounds were reported as renovated for the new season as early as 1891 3 The YMCA dedicated the field at Belmont and Parkside Avenues on May 2 1903 4 Community Use editThe field was used as a multi sport athletic field by the local community The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy held 1906 Commencement Week Athletic Games at the field 5 The College of Pharmacy s baseball team would face the New York College of Pharmacy s team in April 1910 at what was referred to as the P R R grounds 6 A fire in 1922 prior to the start of the baseball season destroyed half the backstop and swept across the stands The grandstand had not yet been repaired when Friends Central School s baseball team opened its season against Chestnut Hill Academy on April 11 1922 7 The grandstands would be builtout in the 1920s and lights were added in 1933 8 Ballpark capacity is said to have been 5 000 9 to 6 000 people Overflow crowds brought attendance to 10 000 10 During the 1930s Overbrook High School and St Joseph s Preparatory School played their home football games at the field and Overbrook played baseball there The independent Norfolk Black Bombers all Black barnstorming football team played the Washington Willow Trees on Thanksgiving Day 1942 at the park 11 Stars co owner Eddie Gottlieb organized a semi professional baseball team called the All Phillies which played at the field in its later years 9 Philadelphia Stars Baseball edit nbsp Philadelphia Stars Negro National League 1938 cap logo The Philadelphia Stars Negro league baseball team had been founded in 1933 by Ed Bolden and initially played their home games at Passon Field at the current site of West Philadelphia High School s Pollock Field The ballpark hosted Game 2 6 and 7 of the 1935 Negro National League Championship Series which matched the Pittsburgh Crawfords against the New York Cubans that saw the Crawfords overcome a 3 1 series deficit to win the league pennant 12 In 1936 the Stars moved to 44th and Parkside Ballpark where they played the majority of their home games through 1947 when they lost their lease 13 The ballpark was owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad and Stars co owner Eddie Gottlieb leased it from the Railroad for the club The Stars played their home games at the ballpark with the exception of Monday nights when the Stars would play in North Philadelphia at Shibe Park home of the Philadelphia Athletics and starting in 1938 the Philadelphia Phillies 14 Biographer Mark Ribowsky documented that Pittsburgh Crawfords catcher Josh Gibson hit a long home run in a game against the Stars early in the 1936 season that flew out of the ballpark 15 The ballpark was home to another famous incident in which Satchel Paige was working on a perfect game through eight innings pitching for the Stars in a non league exhibition game In the ninth after three intentional walks Paige was so sure of himself that he told his seven fielders to lie down on the field Paige then struck out the side on nine pitches 8 Negro World Series games were often played at neutral game sites to attract larger crowds The Cleveland Buckeyes beat the Homestead Grays in game 4 of the 1945 Series at 44th and Parkside Game 3 of the 1947 Series was also played at the Park in which the Buckeyes faced the New York Cubans The ballpark remained sturdy despite a woman named Miss Hattie Williams chopping wood from the grandstand with a hatchet to heat the washtub where she cooked the hot dogs for her concession stand behind home plate 8 Stars player Stanley Glenn recalled the smoke and soot from the coal powered locomotives in the train yard behind the right field forcing the Stars to stop games until the smoke cleared 16 The field was rarely manicured and the grass growing high 17 Negro League Memorial Park and Mural editAfrican American Baseball in PhiladelphiaPennsylvania Historical Marker nbsp African American Baseball in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1998 at Belmont and Parkside Avenues Philadelphia PA 19131 photographed May 24 2011 nbsp nbsp LocationSW corner Belmont amp Parkside Aves PhiladelphiaCoordinates39 58 39 N 75 12 50 W 39 9775 N 75 2138 W 39 9775 75 2138PHMC dedicatedApril 25 1998Today at 44th and Parkside is the Philadelphia Stars Negro League Memorial Park In 2004 West Philadelphia s Business Association of West Parkside led a coalition of local groups in building the park The Philadelphia Building Trades Council donated 150 000 in labor for construction 18 A black tie dinner was held on September 2 2004 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts near the site of the ballpark to raise money for the Memorial Park The dinner honored former players Bill Cash Stanley Glenn Harold Gould and Wilmer Harris 19 At the site of the Park are three tributes to the Philadelphia Stars and Negro leagues baseball in Philadelphia There is a Pennsylvania Historic Site marker a Negro Leagues Memorial Statue and Philadelphia MuralArts program mural celebrating the Stars The Stars Memorial Park and the Stars Mural straddle either side of Belmont Avenue as one crosses Parkside Avenue traveling west A Pennsylvania Historical marker was dedicated at Belmont and Parkside Avenues on April 25 1998 The marker is titled African American Baseball in Philadelphia and the text reads For 85 years starting with the Pythians and Excelsiors in 1867 Black ball clubs were a significant part of the Philadelphia scene The Giants formed 1902 were soon World s Colored Champions The Hilldales Eastern Colored League Champions 1923 25 won the Colored World Series 1925 The Philadelphia Stars from 1933 52 they were in the Negro National League 1933 48 amp many of their games took place at this site 20 Memorial Statue edit A 7 foot high statue featuring a ballplayer following through on his swing stands in the Memorial Park The Phillies hosted the dedication of the statue on June 18 2003 at Veterans Stadium Mayor John Street and Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins attended the unveiling of the statue along with the then living members of the Stars Bill Cash Mahlon Duckett Stanley Glenn Harold Gould and Wilmer Harris The Phillies committed to pay for the maintenance and upkeep of the statue for a period of 10 years 21 The statue was unveiled and placed upon its pedestal at 44th and Belmont Avenues on April 15 2005 Cash Duckett Gould and Glenn all attended the ceremony Wilmer Harris had died in December 2004 Phillies hitting coach Milt Thompson whose father and grandfather played in the Negro leagues attended as did Rollins and former Phillies player Garry Maddox 22 The statue was sculpted by artist and Philadelphia native Phil Sumpter Sumpter also designed the Judy Johnson statue at Wilmington s Frawley Stadium and a Roberto Clemente statue which stands at Third and Erie Streets in Philadelphia 21 Mural edit nbsp Philadelphia MuralArts Philadelphia Stars mural by David McShane at Belmont and Parkside Avenues Photo May 24 2011 Across Belmont Avenue from the Memorial Park is the mural Philadelphia Stars a tribute to Negro League baseball The mural is part of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program It was painted by Philadelphia artist David McShane and dedicated on September 19 2006 23 The mural has been described as an impressionistic collage of scenes McShane consulted with surviving Stars players on their memories of the ballpark before creating the work 17 The mural was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society s Philadelphia Green Program the Philadelphia Department of Human Services the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative and the Business Association of West Parkside which had also organized the creation of the Memorial Park Former Stars players Glenn Gould Cash and Duckett attended the dedication as well as Phillies players Michael Bourn Chris Roberson and the artist McShane 23 See also editPhiladelphia Stars Hilldale ParkReferences edit Riley James A 1994 The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues New York Carroll amp Graf Publishers Inc p 78 Scraps of All Sports Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Pennsylvania April 17 1889 p 6 Y M C A Athletic Grounds Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Pennsylvania March 16 1891 p 3 Fenton John 2007 Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA of Philadelphia PA Ghosts of the Gridiron Retrieved 2009 01 13 Philadelphia College of Pharmacy Alumni Association May 1906 Field Day Alumni Report 42 5 113 Retrieved 2009 01 16 Drug Mixers Defeat New York Concocters and Then Take Tea Philadelphia Inquirer April 13 1910 p 10 Hallowell Captain At Friends Central Philadelphia Inquirer April 9 1922 p 20 a b c Lowry Philip 2006 Green Cathedrals Walker amp Company and SABR p 178 ISBN 978 0 8027 1608 8 a b Westcott Rich 1996 Philadelphia s Old Ballparks Philadelphia Temple University Press pp 6 7 ISBN 1 56639 454 6 Westcott Rich 2001 A Century of Philadelphia Sports Temple University Press pp 2 3 ISBN 1 56639 861 4 Norfolk Pro Eleven Set for All Foes The Afro American 1942 11 17 p 23 1935 Negro League World Series Healy Paul 2003 2005 Passon Field Project Ballpark Retrieved 2009 01 13 Hochman Stan 2004 08 03 Five surviving Philly Stars Negro leagues to be honored finally Philadelphia Daily News Archived from the original on 2008 05 27 Retrieved 2009 01 13 Robowsky Mark 2004 Josh Gibson The Power and the Darkness University of Illinois Press ISBN 978 0 252 07224 6 Glenn Stanley 2006 Don t Let Anyone Take Your Joy Away An inside look at Negro League baseball and its legacy iUniverse Inc p 29 ISBN 0 595 67777 0 a b Strauss Robert 2009 04 03 Baseball all around Our Phab Phils are back and you can get into the game at museums murals and more The Philadelphia Inquirer Retrieved 2009 04 06 dead link Smith Elmer 2004 10 06 A memorial park for the original Philadelphia Stars Philadelphia Daily News Archived from the original on 2008 05 28 Retrieved 2009 01 15 Hochman Stan 2004 08 04 Survivor of school of hard knocks Philadelphia Daily News Archived from the original on 2008 05 27 Retrieved 2009 01 15 African American Baseball in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Retrieved 2009 01 14 dead link a b Phillies to unveil Negro League Memorial Statue Philadelphia Phillies 2003 06 10 Archived from the original on 2016 01 14 Retrieved 2009 01 14 Santoliquito Joseph 2005 04 15 Philly Negro League stars honored MLB com Retrieved 2009 01 14 permanent dead link a b Mural arts program dedicates Negro League mural Philadelphia Stars Negro League team members and Phillies to gather at dedication Philadelphia Phillies 2006 09 18 Retrieved 2009 01 15 39 58 39 N 75 12 50 W 39 9775 N 75 2138 W 39 9775 75 2138External links editBusiness Association of West Parkside Philadelphia Stars Negro League Memorial Park Gallery of photographs of mural and statue at 44th and Parkside Avenues Review and Photos from BallparkReviews com Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 44th and Parkside Ballpark amp oldid 1165339503, 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