June 18 in Cincinnati Reds History: Night game experiment 1909 (1909)

On June 18, 1909, The Cincinnati Reds experimented with night baseball at the Palace of the Fans in a game between two amateur teams before a crowd of 3,000. The lighting system of the invention of George Cahill, who owned a floodlight manufacturing firm in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Reds president Gar

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