Agabiti Park- Roebling & Emory (Never heard anyone call it
that ever, it was always just "the park".
Chestnut Playground- Chestnut near Lalor Street.
Columbus Park-Chestnut & Hamilton Ave
Franklin Park-Franklin & Woodland (This was the park
closest to me..Football, Whiffleball, Softball, Loitering.
Pat Pone Park- Chestnut near Grand Street.
6/11 Field-Bunting Ave off Lalor.
Villa Park Park -Lyndale Avenue
Wetzel Field-Morris & Chambers St (Also close to me
if Franklin Park fields were all being used we would
head here or if we went here first and it was too
crowded we went over to Franklin Park when we
wanted to play football or baseball).
4 years ago
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Loved Wetzel Field, we use to live on Morris and Revere Ave. Took my sons to play ball every summer evening after work. My youngest son always went down to watch the Schroths play, they even made him their batboy for home games.
Best of all the Deefee's, later to be renamed Columbus Park...home of the Chambersburg Little League...
I remember my x use to play softball at a field down by the river many years ago for Joe and Lena's Bar.
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That was where South Trenton Little League field was..along Riverview Cemetary..(where we use to play "hip" at night)..also there was the US Navy station and the water filtration plant..American Bridge along the river..Duck Island down aways..a yacht club and then the Sturgy area.
Any car nuts out there that remembers the 8th. 1/8 mile from the telephone pole to the railroad tracks.
Chestnut playground, grooming ground for many great players at Cathedral High School.
Wow Sax, haven't heard THE DEEFIES in years. We are truly Burger Bits.
We lived adjacent to the park on Hamilton and I remember people calling it THE DEEFIES long after it was renamed Columbus Park, in the early 1960s? I believe at one time there was a school for the deaf there, which explains the folky term DEEFIES I suppose. I remember the statue and bowsprit pedestal going up. There were giant trees on the site (maples?) that must have been 100 years old, probably from the days of the school there?
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