{"id":1923,"date":"2010-06-23T07:22:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/yorktownsquare\/2010\/06\/23\/penn-park-baseball\/"},"modified":"2015-01-16T12:14:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:14:29","slug":"penn-park-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/penn-park-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"York City Police Blue Coats played baseball at Penn Park’s stadium to raise funds for uniforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Stine, centerfielder and cleanup hitter for York, Pa.’s, artifact-rich Police Heritage Museum (seen here), is interested in how police history intersects with local pro baseball history. This York Daily Record\/Sunday News file photograph shows Stine at the West Market Street museum with a Victorian-era prison sword and a hat from a Royal Canadian mounted police dress uniform from the 1870s. He sits inside a late-1800s jail cell. Its bunks come from old York County Prison building on Chestnut Street. Also of interest: From Penn Park field to Sovereign Bank Stadium, York-area baseball fans have heard ‘Play ball’ <\/a> and 5,000 Penn Park fans witnessed first York night baseball <\/a> and Remembering York\/Adams major leaguers<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nJohn Stine commented about a recent York Town Square post<\/a> that located the first York-area baseball stadium at the site of Zion United Church of Christ, across the street from Penn Park.
\nThat location was not news to John Stine, a student of York County history. But he commented that he had never seen a photograph of the ball field.
\nHe added some rich links between law enforcement and baseball. Here is an edited excerpt from comment on the post:<\/p>\n

For many years the York City Police baseball team “The Blue Coats” played the Harrisburg City Police, as a fundraiser to purchase uniforms for the officers. In the era of the ball field, officers had to purchase their own uniforms and equipment. Just as a little note to history; the York City Police had a Baseball police officer, who was assigned to keep the peace at games; in addition, Opera police were assigned to the opera houses for the protection patrons, and to insure the Opera houses followed ordinances regulating them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those comments make you want to know more, in the mode of the interesting artifacts ready for public view at the Police Heritage Museum.<\/a>
\nAlso of interest:<\/strong>
\nOld York County town jails: ‘They’re kind of hidden history’<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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