Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-04-23 | Page 48 | Half Million for Big Baseball Park

HALF MILLION FDD BIG BASEBALL PARK Rebuilt Polo Grounds Will Be Largest Stadium of Its Kind in the World. By Associated Press. ' NEW YORK, April 22. A twenty-live-year lease on National League park, better bet-ter known as tho Polo groundsi signed today by tho Now York baseball club, opens tho waj" for tho construction here of the largest baseball stadium In tho United States', long a cherished plan of John Brush, president of tho club. Tho lease replaces a ten-year agreement signed laHt year. Announcement la mado that tho club is considering plans for a structure of concrete nnd steel, with a greater seating seat-ing capacity than tho new Pittsburg stadium, from which 25.000 persons may view tho game. It Is planned to have it ready for occupancy upon the opening of the 1912 season, and tlio cost Is estimated esti-mated at $000,000.