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href="#cite_note-usgsgrounds-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Reuben S. Decker<br />Hamilton A. Weed</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Seating_capacity" title="Seating capacity">Capacity</a></th><td class="infobox-data">5,000</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Surface</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Grass" class="mw-redirect" title="Grass">Grass</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ccc">Construction</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Broke ground</th><td class="infobox-data">1863</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Built</th><td class="infobox-data">1864</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Opened</th><td class="infobox-data">May 5, 1864</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Closed</th><td class="infobox-data">1880</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ccc">Tenants</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Atlantics" title="Brooklyn Atlantics">Atlantic of Brooklyn</a> (1864–1871)<br /><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Enterprise" title="Brooklyn Enterprise">Enterprise of Brooklyn</a> (1866)<br /><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Atlantics" title="Brooklyn Atlantics">Brooklyn Atlantics</a> (1872)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Capitoline Grounds</b>, also known as <b>Capitoline Skating Lake and Base Ball Ground</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-lowry34_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lowry34-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a> <a href="/wiki/Stadium" title="Stadium">park</a> located in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, from 1864 to 1880. It was built to rival nearby <a href="/wiki/Union_Grounds" title="Union Grounds">Union Grounds</a>, also in Brooklyn. The park hosted local amateur teams in its early history, but later hosted professional and semi-professional games. The park's only season as the home field for an all-professional team occurred in 1872 when the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Atlantics" title="Brooklyn Atlantics">Brooklyn Atlantics</a> joined the <a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Professional_Base_Ball_Players" title="National Association of Professional Base Ball Players">National Association of Professional Base Ball Players</a>. The park was flooded during the winter and used as an ice skating <a href="/wiki/Ice_rink" title="Ice rink">park</a>. The grounds were used by local <a href="/wiki/High_school" class="mw-redirect" title="High school">high schools</a> and colleges as well, to play <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> games, and ice rink football matches.<sup id="cite_ref-smith203_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smith203-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-smith206_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smith206-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many of organized baseball's earliest historical events took place at the park throughout the 1860s and early 1870s. The most notable event came on June 14, 1870, when the Atlantics defeated the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Red_Stockings" title="Cincinnati Red Stockings">Cincinnati Red Stockings</a> to end their historic 84-game winning streak. <a href="/wiki/Fred_Goldsmith_(baseball)" title="Fred Goldsmith (baseball)">Fred Goldsmith</a> successfully demonstrated his <a href="/wiki/Curve_ball" class="mw-redirect" title="Curve ball">curve ball</a> at the grounds in 1870, a pitch previously thought to have been only an optical illusion. In an 1865 game, <a href="/wiki/Ned_Cuthbert" title="Ned Cuthbert">Ned Cuthbert</a> is credited with inventing the <a href="/wiki/Slide_(baseball)" title="Slide (baseball)">slide</a> when he tried avoiding a tag when attempting to <a href="/wiki/Stolen_base" title="Stolen base">steal</a> a base against the <a href="/wiki/Athletic_of_Philadelphia" class="mw-redirect" title="Athletic of Philadelphia">Athletic of Philadelphia</a>. In addition to baseball, the grounds hosted various events and exhibitions; most notably in 1873, when <a href="/wiki/Washington_Harrison_Donaldson" title="Washington Harrison Donaldson">Washington H. Donaldson</a> and two reporters attempted to fly a <a href="/wiki/Gas_balloon" title="Gas balloon">gas balloon</a> across the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>. The attempt turned tragic when the balloon crashed in <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a> killing one of the reporters. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin_and_construction">Origin and construction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capitoline_Grounds&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origin and construction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reuben S. Decker inherited a portion of his grandfather's farm land and along with Hamilton A. Weed initially opened the Capitoline Skating pond, named in reference to <a href="/wiki/Capitoline_Hill" title="Capitoline Hill">Capitoline Hill</a>, one of the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Hills_of_Rome" class="mw-redirect" title="Seven Hills of Rome">Seven Hills of Rome</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nashl15_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nashl15-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The location of the grounds were in the Bedford area of <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, an area now known as the <a href="/wiki/Bedford-Stuyvesant,_Brooklyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn">Bedford-Stuyvesant</a> neighborhood.<sup id="cite_ref-batesel46_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-batesel46-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1866oct15_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1866oct15-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The grounds encompassed a city block bounded by Halsey Street, Marcy Street, Putnam Avenue, and <a href="/wiki/Nostrand_Avenue" title="Nostrand Avenue">Nostrand Avenue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1862dec8_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1862dec8-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The pond area was first conceived as an ice skate <a href="/wiki/Ice_rink" title="Ice rink">park</a>, which began in the winter of 1862–1863.<sup id="cite_ref-nashl15_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nashl15-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Marcy also bordered the Union Grounds, less than 2 1/2 miles north of Capitoline Grounds.) It was designed to be a competitor to the nearby <a href="/wiki/Union_Grounds" title="Union Grounds">Union Grounds</a>, where the first enclosed <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a> field opened earlier in 1862.<sup id="cite_ref-nashl15_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nashl15-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-batesel46_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-batesel46-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the success that the Union Grounds experienced by charging admission, Decker and Weed chose to enclose the Capitoline Grounds as well.<sup id="cite_ref-nashl15_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nashl15-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Capitoline Grounds opened for baseball in 1864, consisting of two sets of bleachers that were backed by Nostrand Avenue and Halsey Street, and had an approximate capacity of 5,000 people.<sup id="cite_ref-batesel46_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-batesel46-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Right_fielder" title="Right fielder">right field</a> stood a circular brick <a href="/wiki/Outhouse" title="Outhouse">outhouse</a>, and if any player hit a ball over the structure, they were presented with a bottle of <a href="/wiki/Champagne_(wine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Champagne (wine)">Champagne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-batesel46_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-batesel46-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Along Putnam Avenue, two rows of <a href="/wiki/Stable" title="Stable">stables</a> were established for the patrons' horses. Other amenities included a <a href="/wiki/Bandstand" title="Bandstand">bandstand</a>, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clubhouse" class="extiw" title="wikt:clubhouse">clubhouses</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sitting_room" class="mw-redirect" title="Sitting room">sitting rooms</a> for the female patrons.<sup id="cite_ref-mcgee22_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcgee22-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i> regarded the new park as "the finest, most extensive, and complete ball grounds in the country".<sup id="cite_ref-mele56_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mele56-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The business ran year around; flooding the area during the winter for skating, then draining the park in the spring for baseball matches.<sup id="cite_ref-batesel46_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-batesel46-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Baseball">Baseball</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capitoline_Grounds&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Baseball"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1864–1868"><span id="1864.E2.80.931868"></span>1864–1868</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capitoline_Grounds&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1864–1868"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first team to use the grounds as their home field was the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Atlantics" title="Brooklyn Atlantics">Atlantics of Brooklyn</a>, baseball's most successful team since the formation of the <a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Base_Ball_Players" title="National Association of Base Ball Players">National Association of Base Ball Players</a> in 1857.<sup id="cite_ref-mcneil425_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcneil425-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The club had won the most games in 1857, then won the league's first three championships from 1859 to 1861. On May 5, 1864, the first baseball game at Capitoline was a match between the Atlantics and a field of nine players from other Brooklyn teams chosen by sportswriter <a href="/wiki/Henry_Chadwick_(writer)" title="Henry Chadwick (writer)">Henry Chadwick</a>. The Atlantic club defeated the field of nine, 45–11. Later, Atlantic defeated <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nassau_of_Princeton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nassau of Princeton (page does not exist)">Nassau of Princeton</a> 42–7 in the field's first scheduled club match.<sup id="cite_ref-covehurst_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-covehurst-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Enterprise" title="Brooklyn Enterprise">Enterprise of Brooklyn</a> used the grounds as their home field 1864, and the <a href="/wiki/Excelsior_of_Brooklyn" title="Excelsior of Brooklyn">Excelsior of Brooklyn</a> later moved there in 1866. Both the Enterprise and the Excelsior clubs refused to play the Atlantics, but they played a number of matches together, mixing their best nines and their "muffin" nines of club novices.<sup id="cite_ref-covehurst_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-covehurst-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Atlantics won the NABBP championship in 1864 with an undefeated record.<sup id="cite_ref-mcneil425_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcneil425-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early November 1865, the Atlantics played the <a href="/wiki/Athletic_of_Philadelphia" class="mw-redirect" title="Athletic of Philadelphia">Athletic of Philadelphia</a> in a two-game, season-ending series. Brooklyn came into the series undefeated, and this was considered a play for the league's championship. The games were played one week apart, the first occurred in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, which resulted in a 21–15 victory for Brooklyn. In the second game, played in Brooklyn in front of a crowd of approximately 15,000 spectators, the Atlantics prevailed, this time 27–24.<sup id="cite_ref-1865nov9_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1865nov9-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Atlantics won the championship again in 1866.<sup id="cite_ref-mcneil425_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcneil425-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1869–1871"><span id="1869.E2.80.931871"></span>1869–1871</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capitoline_Grounds&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1869–1871"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Capitoline_Grounds.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Capitoline_Grounds.jpg/310px-Capitoline_Grounds.jpg" decoding="async" width="310" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Capitoline_Grounds.jpg/465px-Capitoline_Grounds.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Capitoline_Grounds.jpg/620px-Capitoline_Grounds.jpg 2x" data-file-width="704" data-file-height="256" /></a><figcaption>Sketch of Capitoline Grounds during a matchup of the Brooklyn Atlantics and the Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1870</figcaption></figure> <p>On June 28, 1869, a championship match between the Atlantic club and the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mutuals" title="New York Mutuals">New York Mutuals</a> was played on the Capitoline Grounds before a crowd of 10‚000. The Atlantics were ahead in the seventh before the game was stopped due to rain.<sup id="cite_ref-1869chrono_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1869chrono-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, on September 6, the Eckford Club began a championship series for the pennant with the Atlantic club at the Capitoline Grounds. With 8‚000 spectators on hand, the Atlantics defeated the Eckfords 45–25‚ supported by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Start" title="Joe Start">Joe Start</a>'s four <a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">home runs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1869chrono_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1869chrono-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Due to other local competitors opening area that could hold more ballfields, the Capitoline Grounds split their field into two fields to accommodate more amateur clubs.<sup id="cite_ref-mele56_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mele56-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first instance of two high-profile teams to begin a season with a practice game happened at the grounds on April 21, 1870. A crowd of 1‚200 paid $.25 apiece to watch the Atlantics and the <a href="/wiki/Union_of_Morrisania" title="Union of Morrisania">Union of Morrisania</a> play; the Atlantics won the game 24–10.<sup id="cite_ref-1870chrono_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1870chrono-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The game played at the Capitoline Grounds on June 14, 1870, a match described both as the "greatest game of the year", and "the finest game ever played" took place.<sup id="cite_ref-1870chrono_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1870chrono-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With approximately 20,000 people in attendance, <a href="/wiki/Harry_Wright" title="Harry Wright">Harry Wright</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Red_Stockings" title="Cincinnati Red Stockings">Cincinnati Red Stockings</a> attempted to extend their 84-game winning streak against the Atlantics in Brooklyn. The Red Stockings had been undefeated in 1869, with a record of 57–0, and had won their first 27 games of the 1870 season.<sup id="cite_ref-mcgee23_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcgee23-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The game was tied 5–5 at the end of the ninth inning, when the Atlantics offered to let the game end since the regulation nine innings had been played, but Wright turned down the proposal, wishing to take the game into extra innings.<sup id="cite_ref-mcgee23_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcgee23-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the top of the 11th inning‚ the Red Stockings scored two runs, giving themselves a 7–5 lead, but the Atlantics countered with three of their own in the bottom half of the 11th, winning the game.<sup id="cite_ref-mcgee23_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcgee23-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Henry Chadwick wrote an account that on August 16, 1870, <a href="/wiki/Fred_Goldsmith_(baseball)" title="Fred Goldsmith (baseball)">Fred Goldsmith</a> demonstrated a new pitch, the <a href="/wiki/Curve_ball" class="mw-redirect" title="Curve ball">curve ball</a>, at the Capitoline Grounds.<sup id="cite_ref-morris420_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morris420-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chadwick observed: "That which had up to this point been considered an optical illusion and against all rules of philosophy was now an established fact."<sup id="cite_ref-morris420_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morris420-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 1930s, the established baseball community had given the discovery credit to <a href="/wiki/Candy_Cummings" title="Candy Cummings">Candy Cummings</a>, and due to Chapman's age, determined that his demonstration has most likely occurred a few years later.<sup id="cite_ref-morris420_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morris420-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1872–1880"><span id="1872.E2.80.931880"></span>1872–1880</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capitoline_Grounds&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1872–1880"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barnum_at_Capitoline_Grounds_1880_04_26.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3d/Barnum_at_Capitoline_Grounds_1880_04_26.jpg/220px-Barnum_at_Capitoline_Grounds_1880_04_26.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3d/Barnum_at_Capitoline_Grounds_1880_04_26.jpg/330px-Barnum_at_Capitoline_Grounds_1880_04_26.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3d/Barnum_at_Capitoline_Grounds_1880_04_26.jpg/440px-Barnum_at_Capitoline_Grounds_1880_04_26.jpg 2x" data-file-width="680" data-file-height="696" /></a><figcaption>Writeup about Barnum circus in 1880, featuring the acrobat known as <a href="/wiki/Rossa_Matilda_Richter" title="Rossa Matilda Richter">Zazel</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The only season of Major League Baseball at the Capitoline Grounds was in 1872. The Atlantics, then of the National Association, won the final major league game there 6–3 over Boston, but left for the Union Grounds in 1873.<sup id="cite_ref-batesel46_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-batesel46-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Capitoline Grounds continued to host lesser matches, as well such events as <a href="/wiki/P._T._Barnum" title="P. T. Barnum">P. T. Barnum</a>'s circus, whose final show at Capitoline came in April 1880. </p><p>John B. Day, who owned the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Metropolitans" title="New York Metropolitans">New York Metropolitans</a> in 1880, was frustrated about having to play at the ill-kept Capitoline Grounds in Brooklyn, which was not yet a borough of <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, and the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge" title="Brooklyn Bridge">Brooklyn Bridge</a> had not yet been completed, so the fans of the Mets had to cross the <a href="/wiki/East_River" title="East River">East River</a> by ferry to see their team play. Day's <a href="/wiki/Shoe_shine_boy" class="mw-redirect" title="Shoe shine boy">shoe shine boy</a> suggested a site in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, a place where <a href="/wiki/Polo" title="Polo">polo</a> matches were being played. That piece of ground later became the future site of the <a href="/wiki/Polo_Grounds" title="Polo Grounds">Polo Grounds</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-baseballstatistics_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baseballstatistics-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Capitoline Grounds was demolished later in 1880.<sup id="cite_ref-batesel46_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-batesel46-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the late winter of 1880–1881, the property had been cut through by Jefferson Avenue and Hancock Street, and residential lot development had begun. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Donaldson's_failed_balloon_flight_of_1873"><span id="Donaldson.27s_failed_balloon_flight_of_1873"></span>Donaldson's failed balloon flight of 1873</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capitoline_Grounds&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Donaldson's failed balloon flight of 1873"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Daily_Graphic_7_October_1873.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Daily_Graphic_7_October_1873.png/220px-Daily_Graphic_7_October_1873.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="327" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Daily_Graphic_7_October_1873.png/330px-Daily_Graphic_7_October_1873.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Daily_Graphic_7_October_1873.png/440px-Daily_Graphic_7_October_1873.png 2x" data-file-width="1750" data-file-height="2599" /></a><figcaption>Donaldson's 1873 balloon</figcaption></figure> <p>In September 1873, <a href="/wiki/Washington_Harrison_Donaldson" title="Washington Harrison Donaldson">Washington Donaldson</a>, a professional <a href="/wiki/Balloonist" class="mw-redirect" title="Balloonist">balloonist</a> who had formerly worked for <a href="/wiki/P.T._Barnum" class="mw-redirect" title="P.T. Barnum">P.T. Barnum</a> as a circus performer, along with fellow balloonist John Wise, collaborated on an attempt to cross the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Hot-air_balloon" class="mw-redirect" title="Hot-air balloon">hot-air balloon</a>. Sponsored by the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Graphic" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Graphic">Daily Graphic</a></i>, the launch was to take place from the Capitoline Grounds, with Wise planning to use a balloon 49 meters (160 feet) tall with a two-compartment enclosed car, but decided to end his involvement with the project. Donaldson persisted, acquiring a smaller balloon with an open boat for the car.<sup id="cite_ref-pioneer_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pioneer-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Donaldson's Atlantic attempt, launched from the Capitoline Grounds accompanied by reporters Alfred Ford and George Lunt, ended up being forced down by a rainstorm, to land on a Connecticut farm.<sup id="cite_ref-whoswho_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whoswho-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Donaldson and Ford successfully abandoned the runaway balloon, but Lunt stayed with the balloon for a distance until he finally jumped into a tree, sustaining serious injuries from which he died six months later.<sup id="cite_ref-regardez_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regardez-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Donaldson later disappeared in 1875 when he tried to fly across <a href="/wiki/Lake_Michigan" title="Lake Michigan">Lake Michigan</a> in a balloon, accompanied by a reporter named Newton Grimwood. The balloon never made it to the far shore; Grimwood's body washed up on shore weeks later, but Donaldson was never seen again.<sup id="cite_ref-pioneer_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pioneer-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_literature">In literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capitoline_Grounds&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/w/index.php?title=Darryl_Brock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Darryl Brock (page does not exist)">Darryl Brock</a>'s 1990 novel, <i><a href="/wiki/If_I_Never_Get_Back:_A_Novel" class="mw-redirect" title="If I Never Get Back: A Novel">If I Never Get Back: A Novel</a></i>, the main character is transported back in time to 1869, where he joins the Cincinnati Red Stockings on their quest to remain undefeated. The Red Stockings travelled to Brooklyn to play the Atlantics at the Capitoline Grounds.<sup id="cite_ref-brock128_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brock128-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capitoline_Grounds&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-3"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-usgsgrounds-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-usgsgrounds_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/2417391">"Feature Detail Report for: Capitoline Grounds (historical)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Geographic_Names_Information_System" title="Geographic Names Information System">Geographic Names Information System</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Geological_Survey" title="United States Geological Survey">United States Geological Survey</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Interior" title="United States Department of the Interior">United States Department of the Interior</a>. 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scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The Bronx</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coffey_Field" title="Coffey Field">Coffey Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Draddy_Gymnasium" title="Draddy Gymnasium">Draddy Gymnasium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaelic_Park" title="Gaelic Park">Gaelic Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohio_Field_(Bronx)" title="Ohio Field (Bronx)">Ohio Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reinhart_Field" title="Reinhart Field">Reinhart Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rose_Hill_Gymnasium" title="Rose Hill Gymnasium">Rose Hill Gymnasium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Van_Cortlandt_Park" title="Van Cortlandt Park">Van Cortlandt Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yankee_Stadium" title="Yankee Stadium">Yankee Stadium</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Brooklyn</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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title="Chelsea Piers">Chelsea Piers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commisso_Soccer_Stadium" title="Commisso Soccer Stadium">Commisso Soccer Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Icahn_Stadium" title="Icahn Stadium">Icahn Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McEnroe_Tennis_Academy" title="John McEnroe Tennis Academy">John McEnroe Tennis Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levien_Gymnasium" title="Levien Gymnasium">Levien Gymnasium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_K._Kraft_Field_at_Lawrence_A._Wien_Stadium" title="Robert K. 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Track</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Grounds" title="Union Grounds">Union Grounds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Park_(baseball)" title="Washington Park (baseball)">Washington Park</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Manhattan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/69th_Regiment_Armory" title="69th Regiment Armory">69th Regiment Armory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/181st_Street_Ice_Palace" title="181st Street Ice Palace">181st Street Ice Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downing_Stadium" title="Downing Stadium">Downing Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coles_Sports_and_Recreation_Center" title="Coles Sports and Recreation Center">Coles Sports and Recreation Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governors_Island_Golf_Course" title="Governors Island Golf Course">Governors Island Golf Course</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:1%">Staten Island</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bloomingdale_Park" title="Bloomingdale Park">Bloomingdale Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._George_Cricket_Grounds" title="St. George Cricket Grounds">St. George Cricket Grounds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thompson_Stadium_(Staten_Island)" title="Thompson Stadium (Staten Island)">Thompson Stadium</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Long Island</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freeport,_New_York#Sports_and_recreation" title="Freeport, New York">Freeport Municipal Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Island_Garden" title="Island Garden">Island Garden (Original)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islip_Speedway" title="Islip Speedway">Islip Speedway</a></li> 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