An Inferior Park

ID: 4657 ~ Source: Courtesy of The Northwest Museum of Art and Culture Archives ~ Creator: Charles Libby ~ Date: 1984
This file appears in: Spokane Baseball Club is a Local Passion

A park the Spokane Indians played at before Avista Stadium was built.

This file appears in: Spokane Baseball Club is a Local Passion

By Larkin Marie Mullin
Baseball was America's national pastime before Spokane was even a city. As the railroads moved across the west, Midwestern baseball promoter John Sloane Barnes moved to Spokane in 1890 to help establish the Pacific Northwest League, comprised…