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In honor of Crosley Field, the Cincinnati Reds ' home park from 1912 to June 1970, a monument reminiscent of the park's infamous left field terrace was built on the main entrance plaza on Joe Nuxhall Way ; statues of Crosley-era stars Nuxhall, catcher Ernie Lombardi, first baseman Ted Kluszewski, and outfielder Frank Robinson are depicted playing an imaginary baseball game.
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honor and Crosley
When local businessman Powel Crosley Jr. bought the struggling Reds in 1934, team president Larry MacPhail insisted that the ballpark be renamed in honor of the man many thought had rescued the franchise.
The street-level main entrance to Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati is named Crosley Terrace in his honor.
honor and Field
Doubleday Field at West Point, New York, where the Army Black Knights play at Johnson Stadium, is named in Doubleday's honor.
In present-day Pueblo, Runyon Field, the Damon Runyon Repertory Theater Company and Runyon Lake are now named in his honor.
A number of facilities at Pasadena City College ( successor to PJC ) are named in Robinson's honor, including Robinson Field, a football / soccer / track facility named jointly for Robinson and his brother Mack.
Near the old Forbes Field where he began his pro career the city of Pittsburgh has renamed a street in his honor.
A column from the ruins of a Roman temple in Ostia given to Chicago by the Italian government to honor General Italo Balbo's 1933 trans-Atlantic flight still stands near Soldier Field.
* In Red Bank, New Jersey, the Count Basie Theatre, a property on Monmouth Street redeveloped for live performances, and Count Basie Field were named in his honor.
Davis – Monthan AFB was established in 1925 as Davis-Monthan Landing Field, and is named in honor of World War I pilots Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis and Oscar Monthan, both Tucson natives.
The games are played on campus at Chuck Noll Field, named in honor of the former coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Although the stadium is called Sun Devil Stadium, in 1996 the gridiron within the stadium was named Frank Kush Field in honor of the former coach of the ASU football team.
On September 21, 1996, the playing surface was named in honor of former ASU football coaching great Frank Kush, and the name of the stadium was changed from Sun Devil Stadium to Sun Devil Stadium, Frank Kush Field.
* 1953 San Marcos Army Air Field is renamed Gary Air Force Base to honor Second Lieutenant Arthur Edward Gary, the first San Marcos resident killed in World War II.
The high school football stadium is named Gary Pate Field in honor of a former Locust Fork football coach.
It is named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick I. Eglin ( 1891 – 1937 ), who was killed in a crash of his Northrop A-17 pursuit aircraft on a flight from Langley to Maxwell Field, Alabama.
Field 9 was named in his honor by base commander General Grandison Gardner.
In 1933 Muroc Army Air Field was established, which has since been renamed Edwards Air Force Base in honor of fallen test pilot Glenn Edwards.
On 20 March 1918, Alessandro Flying Training Field became March Field, named in honor of Second Lieutenant Peyton C. March, Jr., son of the Army Chief of Staff, who had been killed when his Curtiss JN-4 " Jenny " crashed in Fort Worth, Texas the previous month.
In September 1940, the U. S. Navy opened Naval Air Station Lee Field in honor of Ensign Bejamin Lee who had lost his life in a crash at Killinghome, England during World War I.
Hickam Field, renamed Hickam Air Force Base in 1948, was a United States Air Force facility now part of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, named in honor of aviation pioneer Lt Col Horace Meek Hickam.
It was named Wheeler Field on 11 November 1922 in honor of Major Sheldon H. Wheeler, former commander of Luke Field on Ford Island, killed in the crash of DH-4B, AAS Ser.
* The documentary film " Pappy Boyington Field ", tells the story of the grass-roots effort to honor the WWII Fighter Pilot in the town of his birth, with a commemorative airfield name.
On that date, the War Department announced the installation would be named Kaye Field, in honor of Capt Sam Kaye, a World War I flying ace from Columbus.
The town was named in honor of U. S. Senator Robert Field Stockton, who was instrumental in the creation of the Delaware and Raritan Canal.
The stadium is officially named " The Soccer / Lacrosse Stadium at Yurcak Field " in honor of Ronald N. Yurcak, a 1965 All-American Rutgers Lacrosse player.
honor and Cincinnati
Uniform number 14 was retired in Rose's honor by the Cincinnati Cyclones of the East Coast Hockey League.
John Foster Dulles Elementary School in Cincinnati, Ohio is named in honor of him.
Subsequently, prominent men from Hamilton County dedicated Eden Park ( Cincinnati ) in eastern Cincinnati facing Clermont County to honor the distinction.
New Paris as well as nearby Greenville, Ohio and Richmond, Indiana were selected for this honor because of strong Union support during the Civil War, and to avoid a route passing through the " Copperhead " ( pro-South ) hotbeds of Dayton and Cincinnati.
In 1936, Congress authorized the minting of a silver half dollar in honor of the Cincinnati Musical Center.
In 2006 The University of Cincinnati established the Cooperative Education Hall of Honor " to give a permanent place of honor to individuals and organizations that have made a significant qualitative difference in the advancement of Cooperative Education for the benefit of students ".
On August 25, 2007 the Cincinnati Reds retired jersey number 13 in honor of Concepción's contributions to the team.
On July 11, 1902, African Americans in Cincinnati erected a tall monument over Coffin's grave in his honor.
The new pool at the University of Cincinnati ( Keating Aquatic Center ) is named in honor of Keating. He received the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award for a Student Athlete. Other Civic Awards.
He graduated from Woodward High School in 1924 and served as class valedictorian, the first African American to hold that honor in Cincinnati.
The park is named in honor of Ida May Ault and her husband Levi Addison Ault, who was prominent in the development of Cincinnati parks.
And in October 1928, Woodfill and his wife were the special guests of honor at the Greater Cincinnati Industrial Exposition.
He has returned to Cincinnati each year to host, with his family, the George Knittle Memorial Bayley Place Golf Classic in honor of his grandfather, which benefits Bayley Place Assisted Living.
Hemmer on Fridays during the school year will wear a purple tie in honor of his High School Alma Mater Cincinnati Elder.
honor and Reds
The post office issued a series of stamps often referred to as the " Two Cent Reds " by collectors, issued to commemorate the 150th Anniversaries of the many events that occurred during the American Revolution and to honor people such as General Wayne and those others who were there during these times of struggle.
He chose to wear the Reds cap at his induction in honor of former GM Bob Howsam, who gave Anderson his first chance at a major-league managing job.
The post office issued a series of stamps referred to as the ' Two Cent Reds ' by collectors, issued to commemorate the 150th Anniversaries of the many events that occurred during the American Revolution and to honor those who were there.
Larkin was named the Reds ' captain before the 1997 season ( the first player to hold the honor since Dave Concepción's retirement ).
( That honor would go to, ironically, a former Reds ' great, Frank Robinson in 1975 when he was hired to manage the Cleveland Indians ).
In August 2008, a female conpanion named " Rosie Red " named in honor of the group that supports the team, the Rosie Reds, was introduced.
In the Reds ' first game at New York that season, he was given a day in his honor and presented with a diamond-studded watch.
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