Historic Johnstown stadium may be demolished

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 | The Associated Press

[Willie Green]

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- City leaders were trying to decide whether to renovate or demolish a stadium that was the site of Negro League games in 1945 featuring players such as Satchel Page and Jackie Robinson, and where Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig once swung for the fences.

[Willie Green]

There has GOT to be an end to tax-financed sports stadiums somewhere.

[Babsig]

The grandstands of Point Stadium in Johnstown are rusting away, crumbling brick walls are covered by boards and the minor league team that played in the stadium was sold last month.

What in Johnstown isn't rusting away and crumbling? The whole Johnstown-Altoona area is economically depressed. Only industry doing well is service(restaurants, stores, etc.) The people in this area of PA cannot afford higher taxes for a ballfield that they cannot afford to attend games - Just look at Altoona - they built a state of the art ballfield for a AA Pittsburgh team that nobody goes to.

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[gdc61]

i live here, in johnstown, sadly to say a bastion of union dems, and the only blue county in the middle of pa. ex-big steel unions and government housing projects, voted "unhappiest place for women" in SELF mag.oct02pg172 yet its charm holds me still(coughcough) we need a new stadium like a hole in the head. nor a "newly remodeled for historical posterity" ball feild. we could use a new parking lot.................