Small Field, the athletic field for York High, was the subject of a recent post. I checked further into the files at York County Heritage Trust and found that the gift was a real surprise to the York City school board.
Click here to see the previous post and the January 1916 drawing of the meadow.
A November 1915 newspaper article quotes the letter offering the field for the benefit of the children of York:
Photo from 1928 York Gazette & Daily microfilm at York County Heritage Trust.
O.K., so maybe a lot of moms don’t bake apple pie anymore, but baseball is still big in York County, PA.
Glen Rock native Cliff Heathcote, who played in the major league from 1918 to 1932, shows up in a lot of the record books. In fact, one of his records may never be broken.
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