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1.9KFeaturedTucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: The 20,000-seat Football and 2,500-seat Baseball Stadiums at Cherry that never were
Share Tweet LINK: MORE HISTORIC VENUES HERE Sometime between 1906 and 1910, the move from playing “foot-ball” at a field called “Elysian...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: Our first tennis courts
Share Tweet LINK: MORE HISTORIC VENUES HERE 1892: TUCSON LAWN TENNIS CLUB Located at Stone and Jackson, now a parking garage north...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: McKale Memorial Center from 1919-1973
Share Tweet NOTE: The 20th in a series of tracking down lost or forgotten sports venues, trophies and artifacts in the Old...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: The Hunt for our First Golf Course
Share Tweet NOTE: The 19th in a series of tracking down lost or forgotten sports venues, trophies and artifacts in the Old...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: Rudy Garcia Park
Share Tweet NOTE: The 18th in a series of tracking down lost or forgotten sports venues, trophies and artifacts in the Old...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: Baum’s Sporting Goods started out as a small tire shop almost 100 years earlier
Share Tweet NOTE: The 17th in a series of tracking down lost or forgotten sports venues, trophies and artifacts in the Old...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: Mike Dawson’s Sports Page Lounge
Share Tweet Former Tucson High, University of Arizona and NFL standout defensive lineman Mike Dawson opened the Sports Page Lounge in 1984...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: The KZAZ Station helped grow the legend of Fred Snowden
Share Tweet The University of Arizona hired Fred Snowden 50 years ago and my brother Javier is putting together an informative list...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: Basketball bracket from 1963 is filled with local sports legends
Share Tweet Pima County Sports Hall of Famer Ed Nymeyer coached Flowing Wells to a state championship in basketball over Santa Cruz...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: We had six Miniature Golf establishments open at the same time
Share Tweet Sir Goony Golf (1450 S. Alvernon), Green Acres Golfland (6118 E. Speedway), Magic Carpet Golf (6125 E. Speedway), Golf’n Things...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: The Polo Grounds was the place to be
Share Tweet Lt. Colonel Ralph M. Parker started Polo at the University of Arizona in 1922. The first matches were played where...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: 1A Football was once dominant in the Old Pueblo
Share Tweet There was a time when 1A or 8-man football was kind of dominant in the Tucson area. Tucson Deaf and...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: There was a baseball field downtown
Share Tweet The City of Tucson used to have plenty of baseball fields in the old semi-pro days (as talked about in...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: The Canvas Castle/Tucson Sports Arena on West Congress
Share Tweet The dirt lot at 700 West Congress was almost always a dirt lot – except for a brief moment in...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: Elysian Grove was Tucson’s first baseball diamond
Share Tweet NOTE: The fourth in a series of tracking down lost or forgotten sports venues, trophies and artifacts in the Old...
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Tucson Historic Sports Venues and Artifacts: John Byrd “Button” Salmon
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