How a heated baseball fight ignited a stadium fire in 1894
In short: On May 15, 1894, a confrontation between two players in Boston escalated from a simple game dispute into a major stadium fire that changed the course of the afternoon.
This footage explores the 1894 South End Grounds Fire, which started when Baltimore's third baseman John McGraw and Boston's first baseman Tommy Tucker engaged in a violent brawl. What began as a dispute on the field quickly transformed into a larger conflagration that consumed the stadium environment while spectators watched.
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