Brooklyn Bay Parkways Explained

Brooklyn Bay Parkways
League:Inter-City Baseball Association
Ballpark:Erasmus Field
Owner:Joe Rosner, Nat Strong

The Brooklyn Bay Parkways was a semi-professional baseball team based out of Erasmus Field of Erasmus Hall High School. Owned by Joe Rosner, brother of Max Rosner, owner of the Brooklyn Bushwicks, as well as Nat Strong, a prominent figure in organizing various Negro League teams, the Bay Parkways belonged to the Inter-City Baseball Association and played in the local negro league as well as various other local teams.[1] [2] [3] Former players for the Bay Parkways include former Major League stars such as Carl Hubbell, Babe Ruth, Hal Schumacher, Pete Gray, and Blondy Ryan.[4] [5]

References

  1. Web site: BrooklynBallParks.com - the Semipros. 2021-03-23. www.covehurst.net.
  2. Web site: Negro Leagues Baseball eMuseum: Personal Profiles: Nat Strong. 2021-03-23. nlbemuseum.com.
  3. Book: Cieradkowski, Gary . The league of outsider baseball: an illustrated history of baseball's forgotten heroes . 2015 . 978-1-4767-7523-4 . First . New York . Touchstone . 883148236.
  4. Web site: Timer. The Old. The greats once took this long-lost Queens baseball diamond: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was. 2021-03-23. QNS.com. en-US.
  5. Web site: STAN FISCHLER COLUMN: History of the Bushwick Baseball Club worth a read. 2021-03-23. Daily Freeman. 3 May 2014 . en.

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