When the subject of baseball in Brooklyn comes up, the discussion centers around Ebbets Field, the Flatbush venue most famously home to The Boys of Summer. Those legendary 1940s and '50s teams that featured such historic and beloved players as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella and Gil Hodges. Ebbets Field hosted its last major league game in 1957 and was torn down during the winter of 1960. But decades earlier, just before World War One, the Dodgers were based in the Park Slope area and played at Washington Park. Once they moved out, the land was occupied by another stadium, which housed a different franchise. The upstart Federal League, which played in the 1914 and '15 seasons, had a Brooklyn team called the TipTops. Owned by a local baking magnate Robert Ward, whose company produced TipTop bread, the club took over the abandoned lot along 3rd Avenue and built a new brick and steel venue. The only no-hitter in the Federal League's two...
I spent Labor Day 2007 at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to catch the Yankees' triple-A club play their Red Sox counterpart. 
While both clubs had already recalled many of their most important young talent, such as Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain, Jacoby Ellsbury and Jon Lester, the cupboards weren't quite bare. Getting his chance to shine in the holiday spotlight was a former Yankees 1st round draft pick, Eric Duncan. That sweet swing that so impressed scouts was on display.
It is high, far and gone! And thanks to a perfect vantage point in front of the right field picnic area, Duncan's blast is captured.
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