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LEAGUE PARK
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LEAGUE PARK.
Located on Washington Street between 26th and 27th STREETS, League Park was also called the Dubuque Ball Park.
In centerfield stood a large bull, an advertisement for a tobacco company. In 1913 from that spot Larry LeJeune threw a ball over the grandstands behind homeplate and into the front yard of a house across the street, a total of 431 feet.
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Source:
"Way Back When," Telegraph Herald, October 3, 1971, p. 21
See: COMISKEY PARK