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Article: Home's last run: Watt Powell to begin its (real) final season, 55 years after it opened

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April 6, 2004
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April 28, 1949 ... President Truman said he was hopeful Berlin's East-West deadlock would end soon.

Winston Churchill talked about his vision of merging the United States and a united Europe.

And professional baseball returned to Charleston at the new, $300,000 Watt Powell Park. Every seat was filled, people sat atop the field's walls and umpires pleaded with fans standing along the outfield foul lines not to stray into fair territory.

Nearly 55 years later, Watt Powell and its latest tenants, the Charleston Alley Cats, are set to open what is expected - really, this time - to be the field's final year of organized baseball on Thursday against the Delmarva ...

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