Happy Sunday, everyone! Today we finish off Cleveland, at least as far as the new mod is concerned! Cleveland's teams in the NL and AA played in three consecutive parks with similar names. The AL team played in
"League Park" from 1901-1946, though it was built for the NL Spiders who played there 1891-1899. Silvam made that one, it can be
found here and in the other usual spots. The first NL team in Cleveland, the Cleveland Blues, played from 1879-1884 before folding, and are in the mod from 1882-1886. They played in "National League Park", which was also called "Kennard Street Park". That one was made by dfswans and can be
found here in this very thread.
After the Blues went defunct, the
Cleveland Spiders joined the American Association in 1887, jumped to the NL in 1889, and stayed until being contracted after an infamously bad 1899 season (not really their fault). Their first four seasons before moving to League Park were in "National League Park".
But this was a different "National League Park" than the one the Blues played in at Kennard Street. So, it's often called "National League Park II". Whether you call it "National League Park" or "National League Park II", it was definitely the same park for all of 1887-1891. That's the park I'm posting today.
Google Drive Link to National League Park
OK, full disclosure--there's practically no info at all about this park. So I've taken the liberty of substituting a model of
Buffalo's Olympic Park, which was built at around the same time and is in more or less the same geographical region. Those of you who are paying super-close attention may know that
there's an Olympic Park in my other thread. It was my intention to just alter that one, but since I couldn't find the Sketchup file
I made a new one from scratch.
The next message will discuss the Chicago Union Grounds situation, which makes it sounds more dire than it is.