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The First Baseball Game Under Electric Lights

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QUINCY
The visiting Quincy professionals were the ones who stepped into history that night, winning the July 23, 1883 contest under the new electric lights.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DYNAMO
The arc lamps were powered by dynamos, early electric generators, whose steady hum was as novel a sound to the crowd as the light itself was to their eyes.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CARBON
Arc lights of the 1880s worked by sustaining an electric arc between two carbon rods, producing an intense, bluish-white brilliance far brighter than any gas lamp of the era.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FORTWAYNE
Fort Wayne, Indiana earned a quiet but genuine place in baseball history as the city where night play was first attempted, decades before major-league stadiums added permanent lighting.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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First baseball game under electric lights, free, large-print puzzle evoking Fort Wayne's dazzling July 23, 1883 night at the ballpark.

About The First Baseball Game Under Electric Lights

On July 23, 1883, a crowd gathered at League Park in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and watched something no baseball fan had ever seen: a full game played after dark, lit by arc lamps powered by dynamos humming just beyond the outfield fence. The Quincy professionals defeated a local college squad that evening, but the score was almost beside the point, the real spectacle was the electric glow turning the diamond as bright as a summer afternoon. It was an early, vivid glimpse of what night baseball would one day become: a fixture of warm evenings, bleacher crowds, and the particular golden haze of a floodlit field.

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