Boston Fans Source & Resource for Baseball History

Celebrating 154 Consecutive Seasons of Professional Baseball in Boston!

Boston Fans Source & Resource for Baseball History

Celebrating 153 Consecutive Seasons of Professional Baseball in Boston!

This Day in History: 2000-05-15

May 15, 1894: While Boston fans focus on a fight between Baltimore’s John McGraw and Boston’s Tommy Tucker, fire breaks out in the right field bleachers of the South End Grounds and quickly engulfs the ballpark; the fire destroys Boston’s only double-decked stadium and damages 170 neighboring buildings.

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