From the Palm Beach Daily News:
A century ago, just south of Royal Poinciana Way, some of the nation's best athletes, clad in woolen uniforms and stubby-billed caps, smacked triples and caught line drives with their bare hands.
Money-bags E.F. Hutton, in prison-convict garb, huddled behind home plate, delighting high-society A-list onlookers in feathered hats.
One afternoon, Babe Ruth dropped by.
As Major League Baseball's World Series fast approaches, Palm Beach's illustrious baseball past echoes its primacy — ash-wood bats, roaring crowds and all.
For decades after the turn of the 20th century, baseball in Palm Beach reigned supreme — from Negro League games to high-society contests — on a diamond flanked by two of the finest resort hotels in the world.
Comments