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Joe Bowman First Major League Night Game Handwritten Letter

Joe Bowman First Major League Night Game Handwritten Letter

Under the lights for the first time, Phillies pitcher Joe Bowman recalls, in this handwritten , how on that day - or, we mean, night - of May 24, 1935, when Major League Baseball hosted their first night game at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, “the lights in the Cincinnati park for that first nite game were a big improvement over the Minor League park in which I had pitched". It seems the minor league circuit had a few years on the Majors as far as night baseball was concerned. The Cincinnati Reds beat Bowman’s Phillies that night, 2-1. Writing what is now historically rich content, Bowman - who was the starting pitcher that night - signed (9/10) at the end of the letter on paper that is EX.


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