The Baseball War Across the Street: The 1903 Los Angeles Looloos
In the summer of 1903, two rival leagues put two Los Angeles ballclubs in ballparks directly across Washington Boulevard from each other, and only one survived August. For two weeks in the summer of 1903, Los Angeles had more professional baseball than any city in America knew what to do with. Two teams, in two rival leagues, played their home games in two ballparks that stood directly across Washington Boulevard from one another: the Looloos at Chutes Park on the south side of the street, and the Los Angeles Nationals at Prager Park on the north. Starting August 18, both were home, playing at the same times, fighting for the same fans' quarters, and the Los Angeles Times sized up...