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Toronto Baseball Grounds (Sunlight Park)

Photo by Andrew Scanlon - Posted March, 2018

Photo by Wayne Adam - Posted September, 2018

Attached to this building at 655 Queen Street East, west of Broadview Avenue, is this 2016 Heritage Toronto plaque. Here's what it says:

Coordinates: 43.658154 -79.351931

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The Toronto Baseball Grounds was the home field of the city's first professional baseball team, the "Torontos" of the International League. The field included entrances on present-day Broadview and Eastern Avenues, and two wooden stands with seating for 3,000 fans. At the opening game on May 18, 1886, between Toronto and Rochester, New York, Lieutenant-Governor John Beverley Robinson threw the ceremonial first ball.

In 1887, the addition of star pitcher Edward "Cannonball" Crane helped the Torontos achieve a remarkable 15-game winning streak. That September, the team clinched the city's first baseball championship with back-to-back home victories over Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Torontos moved to Hanlan's Point Stadium in 1897. Their old baseball field then became popular with amateur teams, which called it "Sunlight Park" after a nearby soap factory. The field was closed and the stands demolished in 1913.

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