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Take me out the ball game, again?

I’ve become intrigued by the knowledge that Raleigh used to have its own baseball team: the Raleigh Senators. I read somewhere (can’t remember now) the Senators once played at a park near Wade Avenue and Capital Boulevard, now home to the garbage trucks of Raleigh’s Solid Waste Services.

I am gathering more info on this missing ball park and hope to bring it back to life through the magic of the Internets.

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  1. Don’t know about the ball park but there were a lot of Raleigh teams:

    Raleigh Senators, Virginia-North Carolina League (1901)
    Raleigh Red Birds, North Carolina League (1902)
    Raleigh Red Birds, Eastern Carolina League (1908-1910)
    Raleigh Capitals, North Carolina State League (1913-1917)
    Raleigh Nats, Piedmont League (1920)
    Raleigh Red Birds, Piedmont League (1921)
    Raleigh Capitals, Piedmont League (1922-1928, 1930-1932)
    Raleigh Capitals, Carolina League (1945-1953, 1958-1962)
    Raleigh Mets, Carolina League (1963)
    Raleigh Cardinals, Carolina League (1964-1965)
    Raleigh Pirates, Carolina League (1966-1967)
    Raleigh-Durham Mets, Carolina League (1968)
    Raleigh-Durham Phillies, Carolina League (1969)
    Raleigh-Durham Triangles, Carolina League (1970-1971)

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Raleigh,_NC

    Ron

  2. Don’t think the Senators played at the field at the sanitation department unless it was built on an earlier field:

    Devereux Meadow

    Behind 1014 North West Street

    Photographed March 21, 2004

    History: The baseball park was completed in 1939 and demolished in 1979. For decades, the park was the only full-sized, fully-lit baseball field in Raleigh. The site presently houses the city’s sanitation department. Trivia: In 1968, the Durham Bulls merged with Raleigh to form the Raleigh-Durham Mets. The team played half its games in each of their respective cities and folded just before the start of the 1972 season. The pictured Sanborn Insurance Map section is dated 1949.

    http://www.legeros.com/hidden-raleigh/buildings.shtml

    The Virginia-North Carolina league only lasted from Feb 18 until Aug 17 1901

    http://books.google.com/books?id=XYM1hugBuCsC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=%22virginia+north+carolina+league%22+raleigh&source=web&ots=Dee1txQIGc&sig=tR0Mk57X__gGif6xJD7KDpS-LDg&hl=en#PPA47,M1

    Ron

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