According to this article from the April 9, 1911 edition of the Plain Dealer, amateur baseball began in the Campbell Block, in the offices of the Cleveland Graphic, where a meeting was held by Charles Salen to organize a league. Initial games were played at Beyerle Park on the east side, but soon moved to Brookside Park on the west side, which became famous for the huge crowds it drew to baseball games played there in the early twentieth century. | Source: Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections
