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Opening day in 1915 for the Federal League's Brooklyn Tip Tops saw a game with the visiting Buffalo Buffeds (Blues) on April 10th at Washington Park.
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Contemporaries regarded him as the best first baseman in the game. He had issues: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Chase

This must be the Federal League, 1915.

Yes. the Brooklyn Federals new park, according to the caption above. Here is the park's Wikipedia entry: "Washington Park #3 Washington Park's scoreboard stood on "legs," visible in this photo. The legs were in play, so center fielders had to run under the scoreboard to retrieve baseballs. The Brooklyn Tip-Tops or "BrookFeds" of the Federal League, the only major league team ever named for a loaf of bread, acquired the ballpark property in 1914, then rebuilt the second Washington Park in steel and concrete. The old park took on a modern appearance; in fact, it was nearly a duplicate of the initial version of another Federal League park in Chicago that would become Wrigley Field. However, with the Dodgers in a new and somewhat more spacious steel-and-concrete home already, Ebbets Field, there was no long-term need for Washington Park, so it was abandoned for the final time after the Federal League ended its two-year run." Part of the wall of the last Washington Park still exists on the eastern side of 3rd Avenue in what's now a Con Edison yard. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Park_(baseball)

Yes, that wall that you see in the background is still standing and recognizable.

Cool to know part of that park remains. Sadly Ebbets Field is long gone, but Wrigley and Fenway Park will be around for some time to come. If the Brooklyn Federals had a awkward nickname, they were trumped by their brethren in Buffalo who went by the nickname Buffeds (for Buffalo Federals - catchy).

Click here for a history of this outfield wall and the ballpark.