Cooperstown, Brooklyn, Boston.
These are places that come to mind when we think of the origins of baseball. Very few of us would think of London, Ontario, Canada.
But London is home to the Labatt park, the recently-recognized oldest baseball park in the world. Labatt Park has been in operation since 1877, and survived floods and the emergence of hockey to remain a tribute to a lost era of baseball– an era when America’s dominance in baseball hadn’t quite taken hold.
The Throwback has the story of a baseball shrine, tucked away in a city the sport forgot.
