Sports League. The St. Peter’s Prep and Marquette alum kicked off his journalism career post Marquette at the Daily Record, where he remained until 1985. The team went from second in league attendance to fifth, losing more than 50,000 fans than went through the turnstiles the previous year. Company. A Federal League team, the Newark Peppers, also played in 1915. The stadium was also home to the baseball teams of two of Newark's universities: the The stadium cost $34 million to build. ... Newark Park At The Ballpark. Newspaper Articles.
Local Business. Read more here. Originally called Davids Stadium but renamed for New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert in 1931, the site served as the home ballpark for the juggernaut Newark Bears farm teams of the late 1930s-early 1940s Yankees. Bieber never agreed to any concert there, causing Dronet to have even more egg on her face.The Bears would operate to minimal crowds in 2012 and 2013. Construction crews continued the demolition of Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium last week, as the ballpark, built in 1999, met its unfortunate demise. No one in their right mind could have ever imagined that such a thing could happen. The stadium was also home to the baseball teams of two of Newark's universities: the The stadium cost $34 million to build. I can't understand why Baseball fans in the Northern Jersey Area don't go to the Bears. Rutgers-Newark and NJIT continued to play home games there through the 2018 season, but the stadium was condemned soon after and then slated for demolition this year.And the demolition crews finally got around to performing their work last week.It’s a shame that such a beautiful ballpark should meet its demise in just 20 years. Like the famed Frank Sinatra tune, END OF AN ERA Construction crews continued the demolition of Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium last week, as the ballpark, built in 1999, met its unfortunate demise.Sports Writer Jim Hague has been with The Observer for 16+ years now — and his name is one of the most recognizable in all of sports journalism. I would go into his office to secure the lineup and spent an hour or so just talking baseball with him and his assistants, namely former All-Star Mike Torrez and former MLB catcher Ron Karkovice.Raines spent three years in Newark. Newark Indians.
Wrecking crews tear down Bears & Eagles Stadium; tears down memoriesIt opened in the summer of 1999, a glistening, picturesque ballpark on the banks of the Passaic River, a place with such promise and hope for what was once a downtrodden area in downtown Newark.It met its demise some 20 years later, an abandoned respite for hundreds of homeless, with wild weeds patrolling the outfield where Hall of Famer Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium, built just 20 years ago at the cost of approximately $30 million of taxpayers’ funds, began to get taken down last week by construction crews who were destroying the once-majestic facility to start the process of building the kind of commercial and residential development that can be found all over New Jersey these days.And as the construction cranes demolished the right field stands and tore down the main concourse, memories flooded by for someone who spent hundreds of hours in the ballpark, either serving as the public address announcer for games or acting as the official scorer – or in a lot of cases, both, for either the Newark Bears baseball team or the local colleges, namely Rutgers-Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology.The first introduction to Riverfront Stadium, as it was called when it first opened in July of 1999, was as a curiosity-seeking baseball fan, someone who wanted to see if the ballpark was worth all the excitement and hype that came with its opening.