Baseball and Bayonets at W'burg Armory

We’ve driven past the 17th Corps Artillery Armory (formerly known as the Union Grounds) several times but never knew anything about it. NYC-Architecture.com, which has a great cache of Brooklyn buildings, has some nice shots and an explanation from the AIA about the building’s history: Turns out that in the 1860s, this was the site of many baseball games between the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the Philadelphia Athletics, the New York Mutuals, and the Brooklyn Eckfords.
17th Corps Artillery Armory [NYC-Architecture.com] GMAP