Rocky Point and Baseball

Baseball was a favorite local sport and national pastime, but at the turn of the 20th century Puritan morality laws known as Blue Laws prohibited Sunday games. The owner of Rocky Point, Mr. Harrington, nevertheless hosted professional baseball games on the park grounds, and police did not enforce the Sunday law. The most famous exhibition game there took place on September 27, 1914, between the Providence Greys and the Chicago Cubs. Babe Ruth, a homerun king, pitched for Providence and also hit a tremendous drive in the third inning that cleared the hill in right field by half a furlough and bounced into the water on the other side. Under a ground rule, he was credited not with a home run but with a triple.

Warwick, Rhode Island · United States