It’s late. The Yankees game is on in the other room. It’s fitting cause baseball night games are on my brain. I wanted them to be on my eyes (but didn’t really feel like watching on TV). April 28, 2010 is the 80th anniversary of organized baseball’s first night game.
Back in 1910 during a Western Association game, the Muskogee (Oklahoma) Chiefs whomped the Independence (Kansas) Producers 13 to 3–while playing in Independence. (The major leagues didn’t get in on the night fun until 1935. Slackers.) I hope the Producers who are still around–and somebody fire up the birthday candles if they are!–remember the game more for its first status than for that score. That’s some kind of painful. Here, some night baseball photos I gathered up from Flickr.
"Taken at the first night baseball game in 10 years for the Huntington PAL baseball program." Photo by J Ryan Wall via Flickr (Creative Commons license).
"Boston Red Sox vs Oakland A's, May 1, 2007." Photo by einafour via Flickr (Creative Commons license).
OK, some people drink a lot of beer at night games. Photo courtesy of allygirl20 via Flickr (Creative Commons license).
But, some nights, there are fireworks. Fireworks make everything better. Photo courtesy of nsaplayer via Flickr (Creative Commons license).
