Union Grounds
Baseball field in Brooklyn, New York / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the ballpark in Brooklyn. For the Major League ballpark in St. Louis of the same name, see Union Grounds (St. Louis).
Union Grounds was a baseball park located in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. The grounds opened in 1862, its inaugural match being played on May 15.[1] It was the first baseball park enclosed entirely by a fence, thereby allowing proprietor William Cammeyer or his tenant to charge admission. This permitted paying customers to watch the games from benches in a stand while non-paying spectators could only watch from embankments outside the grounds.[2]