This day in baseball: Rain, rain, go away
Posted: May 6, 2013 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, Exposition Park, history, Pittsburgh Pirates 2 Comments
Exposition Park in Pittsburgh (Source: thedeadballera.com)
The season has started out to be a very wet one for baseball. Rain-outs, even snow-outs, have already caused many games to be postponed over the course of the last month. And with the onslaught of all that precipitation, tarp-covered fields have been a common sight this year.
Of course, the practice of protecting the field from the elements had to start somewhere. This brings us back to this day in 1906 at Exposition Park in Pittsburgh, where the Pirates became the first team to cover the grass against a rain storm. The infield was covered by a canvas tarp, thus allowing the following day’s game against the Cubs to be played.
Very cool…sorry about all the snow-outs lately!
It’s definitely an unusual phenomenon for baseball. Hopefully Mother Nature will get her act together and we will soon have some consistently warm weather!