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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
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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 left field
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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
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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.
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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.
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football, from 1931 until 1935 It was demolished in 1938 to construct a housing development called Ewing Terrace. The internal looping street is also called Ewing Terrace.
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The field continued to be used for football, with spectators using the bleachers. It also served as the venue for the
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Whose baseball?: the national pastime and cultural diversity in California, 1859-1941
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avoided the fire due to a gap between them and the main grandstand..
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Sanborn map of Ewing Terrace and Convent of the Presentation, 1950
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San Francisco, California
San Francisco Seals
Pacific Coast League
Richmond District
Lone Mountain


Recreation Park
J. Cal Ewing
bleachers
San Francisco State Gators




"How a forgotten San Francisco ballpark nearly destroyed the western half of the city"
Scarecrow Press
ISBN
978-0-8108-3927-4
ISBN
0-8108-3927-X
"Ewing Field: Lost in the Fog Bank"
"Ewing Field: Better than Make-Believe, Part 1"
"Ewing Field: Better than Make-Believe, Part 2"
"Ewing Field"
"The Story Of Ewing Field, NoPa's Doomed Stadium Of Yesteryear"
Ewing Field and other Seals ballparks
Sanborn map of Ewing Terrace and Convent of the Presentation, 1950
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