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Parade Stadium, Minneapolis

Parade Stadium was Minneapolis's first public football stadium. The Minneapolis park board built the 16,560-seat stadium at The Parade, a park just west of downtown, in 1951. It was meant for high school, amateur, and small-college games. The stadium was also used for summertime Aquatennial festivities for nearly forty years.

Black and white photograph of Beargrease family.

Beargrease family, c.1895

John Beargrease and his family, c.1895. Image courtesy the Cook County Historical Society.

John Beargrease

John Beargrease, undated. Image courtesy of the Cook County Historical Society.

Charles Bender, 1911.

Charles Bender baseball card printed by the American Tobacco Company, 1911.

Charles Bender, c.1910

Charles Bender wearing Philadelphia Athletics uniform, c.1910. Original press photograph from the George Grantham Bain Collection.

Charles Bender, 1903

Charles Bender at he beginning of his career, 1903.

Black and white photograph of Charles Bender, 1911.

Charles Bender, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher

Charles Bender during the prime of his baseball career, 1911. Photograph by Paul Thompson. Bender, who is credited with inventing the slider (a type of breaking-ball pitch), was born on the White Earth Reservation of Ojibwe. He pitched in and won six World Series games—a first in the sport.