Unusual phone message as a result of posting on this board
tkd7
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I've been posting many of my stadium postcards on this thread "Postcard Collectors".
So I get home tonight and there is a message on my voice mail concerning the post on the Postcard thread that I copied on this post below. It was a message from Andy Mott from the Wiedenmeyer Brewing Company asking if I was the guy that posted this on the internet and could he find out more information on the postcard. I'm curious now to see what this guy knows about the baseball park and the Yankees game.
From the Postcard Thread
"I'll throw up one more tonight. It is a divided back pre-linen postcard that was mailed in 1908.
I've located very little information about this park in Newark, NJ. Apparently, on July 17th, 1904 in Wiedenmayer Park, the New York Highlanders (Yankees) faced the Detroit Tigers in a Major League regular season game and Clark Griffith pitched a 3 hit ball game (Yankees 3 - Tigers 1). It is the only home game the Yankees have played in New Jersey. There is little information as to why the Yankees played this game in Newark. The theory is that it was the Yankees only Sunday home game that season and a local ordinance prevented the Yankees playing in New York so they played in New Jersey, but no information from the time has surfaced. The park is named after a prominant family in Newark that owned a large beer brewery."
So I get home tonight and there is a message on my voice mail concerning the post on the Postcard thread that I copied on this post below. It was a message from Andy Mott from the Wiedenmeyer Brewing Company asking if I was the guy that posted this on the internet and could he find out more information on the postcard. I'm curious now to see what this guy knows about the baseball park and the Yankees game.
From the Postcard Thread
"I'll throw up one more tonight. It is a divided back pre-linen postcard that was mailed in 1908.
I've located very little information about this park in Newark, NJ. Apparently, on July 17th, 1904 in Wiedenmayer Park, the New York Highlanders (Yankees) faced the Detroit Tigers in a Major League regular season game and Clark Griffith pitched a 3 hit ball game (Yankees 3 - Tigers 1). It is the only home game the Yankees have played in New Jersey. There is little information as to why the Yankees played this game in Newark. The theory is that it was the Yankees only Sunday home game that season and a local ordinance prevented the Yankees playing in New York so they played in New Jersey, but no information from the time has surfaced. The park is named after a prominant family in Newark that owned a large beer brewery."
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Great stuff tkd ..... hope you find the info that you are looking for.
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<< <i>That park is probably under runway #2 at Newark/Liberty
Great stuff tkd ..... hope you find the info that you are looking for. >>
You're close. The former ballpark site is next to a dump by the Pulaski Skyway. No joke. Apparently the dump was there at the same time as the ballpark. Games would be delayed depending on which way the winds blew.
Amazing, the value of a postcard. This one is still doing its job, passing along its simple, and now historically-intriguing, message.
Wiedenmeyer's Park, N J
Nineteen-eight-to-date
[edited to add: warning! mudflap's haiku infection is still alive!]
Cool story!
<< <i>Being contacted by a brewery rep is never a bad thing.
Cool story! >>
You ain't kidding. I just talked to the guy. They are going to use a scan of my postcard on their brewery website. Turns out I live in the same town as the guy's mother-in-law. He said he would drop off some free beer next time he is in town.