Centennial Grounds
Encyclopedia
Centennial Grounds was a baseball
ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
. It was home to the Philadelphia Centennials
baseball club of the National Association
during the 1875
season, so it is considered a major league ballpark by those who count the NA as a major league.
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
. It was home to the Philadelphia Centennials
Philadelphia Centennials
The Philadelphia Centennials of 1875 were a short-lived baseball team in the National Association. They won 2 games, lost 12, and did not finish out the season. Their home games were played at Centennial Grounds....
baseball club of the National Association
National Association of Professional Base Ball Players
The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players , or simply the National Association , was founded in 1871 and continued through the 1875 season...
during the 1875
1875 in sports
-American football:College championship* College football national championship – Harvard Crimson and Princeton Tigers Events* 13 November — first edition of "The Game", the annual contest between Yale Bulldogs and Harvard Crimson, is played under a modified set of rugby football rules known as...
season, so it is considered a major league ballpark by those who count the NA as a major league.