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Article: Fifty years later, is end drawing near for Watt Powell Park?
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- April 3, 2003
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Kanawha Park only exists in yellowed photographs and foggy
memories, but it was the precursor to the stadium that has been home
to Charleston minor league baseball for the past half-century. The
wooden-framed, 3,500-seat stadium built by two Charleston baseball
enthusiasts, Charles A. Beers and Watt Powell, burned to the ground
in 1944. Four years later, the town picked up the pieces of its
baseball history and built Watt Powell Park. It opened in 1949, and
baseball has had a home on MacCorkle Avenue ever since.
Today, with the Alley Cats opener at 6:05 p.m., storied Watt
Powell begins what likely will be its final season of baseball before
it joins its predecessors as gone but remembered ...