Practically as natural as chewing gum and hot dogs to the American sporting public is the latest rage in baseball—the night game, The above picture shows the portion of a crowd of 54000 enthusiasts at the New York Polo Grounds. It is almost daylight there with no less than 836 lamps of 1500 watt capacity generating 200,000:000 candlepower. Larry MacPhail staged the first major league night game in 1935 in Cincinnati and since then the idea has spread like wildfire
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