Hinchliffe Stadium in New Jersey once hosted Negro League games and stars like Larry Doby, Monte Irvin, Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and Cool Papa Bell.
USA TODAY Sports' Bob Nightengale explains why the rebuilding of Hinchcliffe Stadium in Paterson New Jersey will have an important impact on the game of baseball on and off the field.PATERSON, N.J. ― If you listen intently ― really concentrate, from the centerfield bleachers at the recently restored Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey ― you can hear the water crashing down onto the rocks at the historic Great Falls of the Passaic River.
If only those massive trees which peer down onto the field from above the brand-new parking garage located between third base and the left field foul pole, could talk.In fact, more than 20 members of the Baseball Hall of Fame played on this field, which on Sunday hosted the first professional baseball game since the mid-1940’s, when the New York Black Yankees of the Negro National League called the ballpark on Liberty and Maple Streets home.
Their first home game was against the Sussex County Miners, coincidentally a team also owned by Jackals owner, Al Dorso.First game atmosphere Marc Glenn brought his 9-year-old son to the game, and like Mazzaro considered Sunday’s game memorable. Now that the Jackals home opener at Hinchliffe Stadium is in the books, attention turns to its long-term goals.
Dorso, a Paterson native, who was recently working alongside construction workers putting the finishing touches on the stadium, has similar criteria.Both Jones and Dorso also view the Jackals and the renovated Hinchliffe Stadium as potentially significant pieces to a rebirth for Paterson.
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