View From Home

Walk west on the north side of Findlay Street from Findlay & Western and cross Dalton Street. Now, go to the first driveway on your right. Turn into this driveway and walk between the buildings and you are there. Look out toward Clifton Hill (NE)...Approximate Map Coordinates: 39° 7' N, 84° 32' W

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The photo above shows a view of the scoreboard in 1970 and how it looks now from the vicinity of home plate. What if we could go back in time? Let's try...

You are standing at what was once home plate, looking out to where the scoreboard used to be, and....WOW, so that is where it used to be!

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Thanks to Chris of Connersville, Indiana, we have this photo showing how close to being right we originally were about where home plate used to be. Since our original trip down to the old site, people in the know have painted home plate on the driveway, right where it was once placed.
"This is a photo taken on September 26th, 2009. The location of home plate and 3rd base painted on the pavement seem to be in proper position as they place the infield toward the interstate." - Chris

Continue walking forward (N) until you find this spot. Look right (E) and you are looking at what would have been the right-center field wall and the north corner of the bleachers, between the scoreboard and the right field corner.

Now that was so much fun, let's go to the scoreboard and look back. Walk across the parking lot (NE) toward the corner of Dalton & York Streets. Cross Dalton and stand in front of Berning Printing. You are now standing in front of where the scoreboard once stood. Look back (SW) across Dalton...

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Okay, now we will do it again. Visualize. Concentrate. WOW...so that is Crosley Field! Hey, who put all this stuff in the playing field? "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone? They tore down the 'field' and put up a parking lot!"

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Okay. Now that we are out at the scoreboard, I want you to look back in time once again at the picture below. You will see that you are in the 1940's. There is a car parked behind the scoreboard, facing south on Western Avenue.

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Now what we will do is go forward in time, but we will leave the car exactly where it is.

I hope this gives you the feel of how Crosley was fit into this area! These renditions are probably 98% accurate, given the limits of my abilities with the tools I have available. Below, I have added some additional photos sent in by Daniel Huff, showing more of the area, including home plate and third base.

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