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Ewing Field was a baseball park in
After several years at Recreation Park, Seals owner J. Cal Ewing was faced with some complex legal issues concerned with his ownership and his rental of Recreation Park. He decided to build a new ballpark in a part of the city that at the time had many cemeteries.
After one season at the new park, and after enduring many complaints about the cold, windy, foggy weather at Ewing Field, Ewing sold the team and the ballpark to Henry and Clarence Berry, who moved the club back to Recreation Park.
The ballpark was subsequently used by local amateurs for football, soccer, rugby, and using a portable wooden ring that was stored under the stands, for boxing. During a game on June 5, 1926, the wooden structure caught fire from a cigarette, and soon burned down. Windblown embers set fire to approximately 100 houses. With the ballpark fire raging out of control, the firemen concentrated their efforts on protecting the rest of the neighborhood, including the Presentation Convent behind the left field corner of the ballpark.
The field continued to be used for football, with spectators using bleachers. It was demolished in 1938 to construct a housing development called Ewing Terrace. The internal looping street is also called Ewing Terrace.
Ewing Field and other Seals ballparks
Sanborn map of Ewing Terrace and Convent of the Presentation, 1950
{{Baseball parks Defunct baseball venues in the United States Baseball in San Francisco
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
. It served as the home of the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League for a single season, 1914.
Ewing Field was located in the Richmond District of the city, bounded by Masonic Avenue (east, third base); St. Rose's Avenue (now Anza Street, north, first base) and Geary Boulevard (a block north of St. Rose / Anza); Presentation Convent and Turk Boulevard (south, left field); and Lone Mountain (west, right field).
History
After several years at Recreation Park, Seals owner J. Cal Ewing was faced with some complex legal issues concerned with his ownership and his rental of Recreation Park. He decided to build a new ballpark in a part of the city that at the time had many cemeteries.
After one season at the new park, and after enduring many complaints about the cold, windy, foggy weather at Ewing Field, Ewing sold the team and the ballpark to Henry and Clarence Berry, who moved the club back to Recreation Park.
The ballpark was subsequently used by local amateurs for football, soccer, rugby, and using a portable wooden ring that was stored under the stands, for boxing. During a game on June 5, 1926, the wooden structure caught fire from a cigarette, and soon burned down. Windblown embers set fire to approximately 100 houses. With the ballpark fire raging out of control, the firemen concentrated their efforts on protecting the rest of the neighborhood, including the Presentation Convent behind the left field corner of the ballpark.
The field continued to be used for football, with spectators using bleachers. It was demolished in 1938 to construct a housing development called Ewing Terrace. The internal looping street is also called Ewing Terrace.
Sources
Further reading
* Peter Filichia, ''Professional Baseball Franchises'', Facts on File, 1993. * Phil Lowry, ''Green Cathedrals'', several editions. * Michael Benson, ''Ballparks of North America'', McFarland, 1989.Ewing Field and other Seals ballparks
External links
Sanborn map of Ewing Terrace and Convent of the Presentation, 1950
{{Baseball parks Defunct baseball venues in the United States Baseball in San Francisco