ON THIS DAY IN EARLY DODGERS HISTORY: MAY 30

Posted by Ron on May 30, 2012 | 0 comments

                    May 30, 1889—A record baseball crowd of more than 30,000 people turns out for the first games in Brooklyn’s  rebuilt Washington Park after a fire in early May.  In a Memorial Day doubleheader,  St. Louis wins the morning game but the Brooklyn Bridegrooms  come back to win the second contest 9 to 7.