Hoosier Dusty Files - September 05, 1931 - First Indianapolis Indians Game in Perry Stadium on 16th Street
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Norman Adams Perry constructed Perry Stadium in 1931 to serve as the home stadium for his American Association baseball team, the Indianapolis Indians.
Indianapolis Indians
Founded in 1902 as one of the original members of the American Association, the Indianapolis Indians played in several different stadiums around Indianapolis until Perry purchased the team and built the stadium. The first year in the American Association, the Indians won the first of twenty-one American Association pennants ninety-five wins.
American Association
The American Association Formed in 1902 with eight teams, the St. Paul Apostles, the Minneapolis Millers, the Kansas City Cowboys, the Toledo Mud Hens, the Indianapolis Indians, the Louisville Colonels, the Milwaukee Brewers, and the Columbus (OH) Senators.
Norman Adams Perry (April 11, 1890 - February 5, 1964)
The son of Charles Coffin and Capitola (Adams) Perry, Norman was native to Marion Indiana. Perry took over his father's company, the Marmon-Perry Light Company as President. This company supplied much of the early electric service in the city of Indianapolis, eventually evolving into Indianapolis Power & Light in 1926. Perry purchased the Indianapolis Indians in 1929. Norman purchased the land for the new stadium 1931.
Perry Stadium
Perry had the stadium designed, using Chicago's Wrigley Field without the upper deck, as a template. The 1988 movie Eight Men Out, which was about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, was filmed in the stadium. Perry named the stadium for his brother James, who was killed in an airplane crash. The name of the stadium changed in 1942 to Victory Field for the World War II effort.
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