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The Weltmer Bowl is a multi purpose athletic field on the grounds of
Spring Grove Hospital Center Spring Grove Hospital Center, formerly known as Spring Grove State Hospital, is a psychiatric hospital located in the Baltimore, Maryland, suburb of Catonsville. Founded in 1797 as a general medical and psychiatric retreat, Spring Grove Mental ...
, a state-operated psychiatric hospital that is located in
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, near
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. The field was built in 1936 and is named after Silas W. Weltmer, M.D., who was the hospital's superintendent during the 1930s and 1940s.
Weltmer Bowl
The Bowl is most known for baseball. During its heyday in the 1930s to the 1960s, the bowl was standing room only for the hospital's baseball team. This field saw many future Major League stars, and future Hall of Famers. In the early 1960s, Hall of Famer
Reggie Jackson Reginald Martinez Jackson (born May 18, 1946) is an American former professional baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and Cali ...
played here, and his team defeated Spring Grove for the championship. The Welmer Bowl is regularly used today for amateur and semi professional baseball, softball, soccer and lacrosse.


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