File:Scheer Stadium Game in 1929.jpg

Summary

A game at Scheer Stadium in 1929.

This was well-known, marquee Brunswick ballpark with the grandstand and home plate just below the bluff at the intersection of Rt. 464 and Souder Road where the BHS football and lacrosse fields are today.

The park was named for E.W. Scheer, General Manager of the B&O's Eastern Lines. Stadium construction began in 1928 on B&O land and was regularly crowded with baseball fans on hot summer nights until the present high school opened in 1965.

(Photo Credit Brunswick History Commission)

Reuben Moss: Scheer was the General Manager of the B&O's Eastern Lines. The Stadium, all the teams (Both the regional league team seen in this image and the local league (Shop team, roundhouse team, community team, west end yard team, etc.), as well as the B&O Swimming Pool (Now the City Pool) and trap shooting range which were beside the stadium, were all part of Brunswick's award winning YMCA network.

The image shown here is of a still incomplete Scheer stadium on September 2, 1929, the last game of the finest baseball season to that date where Brunswick lost only one out of the 13 games they played! In this last game, Brunswick defeated Middletown 18-3, a team they had shut out earlier in the year with a 4-0 game. The 1930 progress report of the YMCA (http://www.rmossphotography.com/.../rail.../ymca/yandhow.pdf) states that the stadium when completed would be "The finest in the state".

the stadium was where the track and football field are now. The proximity of the school to the field was key in Scheer Stadium being the location of many events for the Diamond Jubilee in 1965, because the High School was dedicated during the event and I believe they used the stadium for the dedication as well. The diamond and outfield were probably dug out a bit deeper for the installation of the track, but overall the location was about the same. And on the hill where Rt. 464 now is, most of that mass of confusion is parked cars.