Gaston Park
{{Short description|Baseball park in Dallas, Texas, US}}
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| location = Dallas, Texas
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Gaston Park was a baseball park located in Dallas, Texas. Named for landowner William H. Gaston, the ballpark existed within the State Fair grounds in the vicinity of Texas and Pacific rail tracks as well as the Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas.{{cite news |first=Van |last=Craddock |work=Longview News-Journal |title=State fair owed success to East Texan |url=http://www.news-journal.com/features/columns_l/article_e260d300-e8f1-519a-968b-0c58ce5e06b4.html |date=October 24, 2010 |accessdate=October 25, 2010}} The field was also used for the Red River Rivalry in 1912 and 1914. Oklahoma beat Texas 21–6 in 1912 while the Longhorns beat the Sooners 32–7 in 1914.{{cite news |work=The Dallas Morning News |title=Red River Rivalry: The '10s |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/redriver/history/1910-19.html |accessdate=October 25, 2010}} The A&M College of Texas, as it was then known, beat Baylor University there on Thanksgiving Day 1912 by score of 53–0.
Early newspaper reports of Texas League baseball games were stated as "at the fair grounds".
Sources
- {{cite book |title=Baseball in Dallas |first=Chris |last=Holaday |first2=Mark |last2=Presswood |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p9ObELGZWNEC |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=0-7385-3282-7 |year=2004}}
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Category:American football venues in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
Category:Baseball venues in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
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