{"id":952,"date":"2008-04-25T09:57:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T09:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/25\/season-2-of-yorks-campaign-to\/"},"modified":"2014-08-07T13:20:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T17:20:17","slug":"season-2-of-yorks-campaign-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/season-2-of-yorks-campaign-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 2 of York&#8217;s long comeback campaign &#8211; Iconic images 21-23 of 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32362\" alt=\"plate\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate.jpg 292w, https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate-171x300.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>A marker designates home plate as York&#8217;s new Sovereign Bank Stadium was constructed around it. York officials &#8211; and many residents in York County &#8211; are hoping the return of baseball helps drive a stake through the heart of the economic struggle that sometimes confronts the city. Background posts: <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/03\/400-years-ago-john-smith-explo-1\">400 years ago, John Smith explored Chesapeake Bay &#8211; 1 of 31 iconic images<\/a>, <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/york-revoltuion-2020-1\">New baseball diamond serves as York cornerstone &#8211; 20\/31iconic photos<\/a> and <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2007\/04\/first-pitch-could-break-link-w\">First pitch could break link with York race riots<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the past two &#8220;Connections&#8221; editions, we have assembled colorful layouts showing the Murals of York and paintings of key figures with York connections in the American Revolution.<br \/>\nFor this year&#8217;s special publication, our spread will show <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ydr.com\/history\/yorkimages.pdf\">20 images<\/a> (allow time to load) that help define York County.<br \/>\nNow, we&#8217;ve added four more sets of iconic photos to the mix.<br \/>\nThese photos connect with a major plank in York city officials&#8217; platform for the city&#8217;s renaissance &#8211; baseball&#8230; .<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32363\" alt=\"plate1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate1.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate1-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The old York County Courthouse appears to be overseeing construction of the York Revolution&#8217;s new stadium.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe irony pointed out in past posts is that baseball left the city, in part, because race rioting impacted attendance in 1969. That rioting hastened a decline in the city&#8217;s retail hub. Now, city officials are depending on baseball to help bring the city back.<br \/>\nThe York Revolution opens its second season with a road game today at Camden.<br \/>\nNext week, they&#8217;ll open at <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2009\/04\/rail-tour\">Sovereign Bank Stadium<\/a>.<br \/>\nPlay ball!<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32365\" alt=\"plate2\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate2.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate2.jpg 512w, https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate2-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Wayne Franklin fires to home plate during the franchise opener for the Atlantic League&#8217;s Revolution. This marked the returned of a team to York for the first time since 1969<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong>Posts in this series:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/03\/400-years-ago-john-smith-explo-1\">400 years ago, John Smith explored Chesapeake Bay &#8211; 1\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/03\/declaration-signer-james-smith-1\">Declaration signer James Smith tops York County patriot list &#8211; 2\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/03\/going-to-market-a-longtime-yor\">Going to market a longtime York County pastime &#8211; 3\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/03\/-4-of-20-iconic-images\">William C. Goodridge: From slavery to success story &#8211; 4\/31 iconic images<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/03\/post-168\">Rebs&#8217; short York visit creates long memories &#8211; 5\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/03\/-bonham-620-iconic-images-1\">Artist Horace Bonham captured everyday life &#8211; 6\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/03\/720-iconic-images-1\">York County farm vs. factory tension relieved in overnight raid &#8211; 7\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/03\/-820-iconic-images\">York County stood firmly behind Allies on all fronts in WW II &#8211; 8\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/03\/downtown-thrived-in-postww-ii\">Downtown thrived in post-WW II York &#8211; 9\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/after-wwii-success-farquhar-se-1\">After WWII success, Farquhar sells assets to out-of-town outfit &#8211; 10\/31 iconic images<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/sears-york-county-shopping-cen-1\">Sears, York County Shopping Center in the middle of things &#8211; 11\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/three-mile-mile-emergency-inde\">Three Mile Island emergency indelibly written into memories &#8211; 12\/2 iconic images<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/church-1320-1\">People of varying religious groups founded York County &#8211; 13\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/mr-reagan-1420\">President Reagan: &#8216;Harley is back and standing tall&#8217; &#8211; 14\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/yorks-surrender-etc-1520-iconi\">York&#8217;s mayor: &#8216;We are no longer unprotected&#8217; &#8211; 15\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/grange-hall-represented-past-w\">Grange Hall represented past way of York County life &#8211; 16\/31 iconic images<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/york-county-honors-choir-produ\">York County Honors Choir product of proud moment &#8211; 17\/31 iconic images<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/racial-harmony-1820\">Meeting of riot victims brought hope for racial accord &#8211; 18\/31 iconic images<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/york-safe-7-lock-1920\">Property rights foundational factor in Lauxmont dispute &#8211; 19\/31 iconic images<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/york-revoltuion-2020-1\">New baseball diamond serves as York cornerstone &#8211; 20\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/season-2-of-yorks-campaign-to\">Season 2 of York&#8217;s campaign to come back &#8211; 21-23 of 31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/04\/york-prays-as-its-men-hit-norm-1\">York on knees as its men storm Normandy beaches &#8211; 24-25 of 31 iconic images <\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/05\/-more-iconic-photos-iconic-pho\">One image illustrates two long-neglected subjects in York area &#8211; 26-27 of 31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/05\/iconic-3\">Images explain changes in York County factories, farms &#8211; 28-29 of 31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/06\/york-county-still-home-to-unva\">York County still home to unvarnished beauty &#8211; 30\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2008\/06\/latinos-newest-migrant-group-t\">Latinos most recent migrant group to call York County home &#8211; 31\/31 iconic images<\/a><br \/>\nSee all these iconic photos in a <a href=\" http:\/\/media.ydr.com\/history\/yorkimages.pdf\">special magazine layout<\/a> (but please leave time for loading).<br \/>\n<em>For additional iconic photos of York County, see this blog&#8217;s <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/category\/iconic-images\/\">iconic photo category<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A marker designates home plate as York&#8217;s new Sovereign Bank Stadium was constructed around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7,47,10,4,11,48,8,59,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives-all-posts","category-events","category-explanationscontroversy","category-for-photo-fans","category-genealogyresearch","category-local-journalism-web","category-local-landmarks","category-iconic-images","category-people","category-york-revspros","category-york-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Season 2 of York&#039;s long comeback campaign - Iconic images 21-23 of 31 - York Town Square<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/season-2-of-yorks-campaign-to\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Season 2 of York&#039;s long comeback campaign - Iconic images 21-23 of 31 - York Town Square\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A marker designates home plate as York&#8217;s new Sovereign Bank Stadium was constructed around it.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/season-2-of-yorks-campaign-to\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"York Town Square\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-04-25T09:57:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-08-07T17:20:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/plate.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jim McClure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@JamesMcClure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jim McClure\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yorkblog.com\\\/yorktownsquare\\\/season-2-of-yorks-campaign-to\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yorkblog.com\\\/yorktownsquare\\\/season-2-of-yorks-campaign-to\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jim McClure\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yorkblog.com\\\/yorktownsquare\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b48a19c4bb41c9ee494a3eb75485cdd0\"},\"headline\":\"Season 2 of York&#8217;s long comeback campaign &#8211; 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