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That same day, another modern ballpark, Fenway Park, was dedicated in Boston. The era of wooden parks was passing, the wobbly, rotting fire hazards of the 19th Century replaced by more sturdy and comfortable facilities of concrete and steel. </div> <div> Owner Frank Navin had been adamant that Detroit would have such a place. In the fall of 1911, Bennett Park, the Tigers' home at The Corner since 1896, was torn down after 16 seasons. In its place, a facility keeping with Detroit's emerging stature as a world-class city was erected for $300,000. Navin resisted, but not too strenuously, when city fathers suggested he name the place after himself. </div> <div> The Tigers' new lair had been reconfigured and covered an area almost twice the size of its predecessor. No longer was the afternoon sun in the batter's eyes; now the rightfielder had to fight off the glare. The outfield dimensions were 365 feet down the rightfield line, 340 feet down the leftfield line, and 400 feet to center. </div> <div> The walls were painted gray, and a large green panel in centerfield provided a splendid backdrop for hitters. A 125-foot flagpole, still the tallest obstacle built in fair territory inside a big-league park, loomed in centerfield. </div> <div> On a sunny, chilly Saturday, about 26,000 Detroiters filled a park designed to accommodate 23,000 in its yellow slat seats. Those not already standing in the roped-off outfield got on their feet in the bottom of the first inning when Ty Cobb, timing the pitcher's delivery perfectly, took off from third base and hook-slid around the lunging catcher to score the first Tigers run at Navin Field. It was Cobb's first of a record seven steals of home in 1912. Oddly, all occurred at The Corner. </div> <div> Cobb later added another stolen base and a couple of nifty catches as the Tigers won, 6-5. He shared the limelight with George Mullin. Besides pitching a complete game, the stout-hearted pitcher knocked in the winning run in the 11th inning. </div> <div> It's perhaps worth noting that there was no communal outpouring of nostalgia over the passing of Bennett Park, just excitement over the future. Sporting Life declared that the city and its ball team had "just celebrated the most momentous occasion in the history of Michigan baseball. The opening of the new Navin Park can be described in no other way. For the first time in history, Detroit has a ballyard worthy of its rank among the cities." </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0a026210.gif" border=0 width="550" height="33" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> 'THE YEAR OF LIBERTY' </div> <bR> <div> 1798 Rebels </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="11f6c850.gif" border=0 width="108" height="133" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Theobald Wolfe Tone</div> <bR> <div> Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98) [Miniatur von Catherine Anne Tone]: Born in </div> <div> Dublin, educated at Trinity College, Dublin; has been interpreted both as the </div> <div> founder of Irish nationalism (in the republican tradition since P.H. Pearse) </div> <div> and as a frustrated imperialist; his first nationalist pamphlet attracted the </div> <div> attention of the Whig Club, 1790, but his ideas were soon far in advance of </div> <div> theirs and he came to regard republicanism as a necessary adjunct to pure </div> <div> patriotism. Soon after the publication of his most famous pamphlet An </div> <div> Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland elected secretary of the </div> <div> Catholic Committee, which represented the Catholic Irish nobility, clergy, </div> <div> and middle classes. Among the founders of the United Irish Organisation, Tone </div> <div> is famed for inventing its name United Irishmen. Expelled from Ireland in </div> <div> connection with the Jackson-espionage-affair, he spent a year in the United </div> <div> States. Afterwards he went to Paris. In negotiations with the French </div> <div> directory, he tried to obtain French aid for an United Irish uprising in </div> <div> Ireland. Accompanied abortive French expeditions to Ireland in 1796 and 1798, </div> <div> when captured. Committed suicide on being refused a soldier's death. His </div> <div> Journals reveal a mild humorist within the revolutionary, but the latter </div> <div> always held sway. For a more detailed, if biased account of Tone's life by </div> <div> Tone himself refer to Extracts from the "Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="12173780.jpg" border=0 width="115" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                                    <IMG SRC="12464640.gif" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Henry Joy McCracken </div> <bR> <div> Henry Joy McCracken (1767-98): Born in Belfast of Huguenot descent and into a </div> <div> leading family in the linen trade; an early but not original member of the </div> <div> United Irishmen, 1791; arrested, 1796; took a leading part in planning the </div> <div> 1798 rebellion in the north (served as an emissary of the United Irishmen and </div> <div> made close contacts with the Catholic Defenders), while on bail; commanded </div> <div> the County Antrim insurgents; captured on the eve of a projected escape to </div> <div> America, after some weeks in hiding; tried and hanged. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="122647d0.gif" border=0 width="100" height="125" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> James Napper Tandy</div> <bR> <div> James Napper Tandy (1740-1803) [Madden, United Irishmen]: Born in Dublin; son </div> <div> of a small tradesman; earned immense popularity for his attacks on municipal </div> <div> corruption; an enthusiastic Volunteer; helped Drennan, Tone, and Russell </div> <div> found the United Irish Society; became first secretary of the Dublin branch; </div> <div> raised a 'national guard', 1792, on the rejection of the Catholic petition; </div> <div> forced to flee to America; went to Paris, 1798; given command of a body of </div> <div> soldiers who landed at Donegal; issued a proclamation and became insensibly </div> <div> drunk; carried back to his ship; captured at Hamburg; avoided the death </div> <div> penalty because of the manner of his arrest was thought to have contravened </div> <div> international law; liberated through the representation of Napoleon at </div> <div> Amiens, 1802; eulogized in nationalist folklore. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="12564640.gif" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Lord Edward Fitzgerald </div> <bR> <div> Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763-98) [Madden, United Irishmen]: Born in Carton </div> <div> House, Co. Kildare; son of the first Duke of Leinster and Emily, daughter of </div> <div> the Duke of Richmond; joined the Sussex militia and served in America, 1779; </div> <div> MP for Athy, 1781; rejoined the army in Canada, 1788; MP for Co. Kildare, </div> <div> 1790; attracted by revolutionary thought; visiting Paris, staying with Tom </div> <div> Paine, 1792; cashiered from the army for toasting the abolition of all </div> <div> hereditary titles; associated with the United Irishmen from their early days </div> <div> but did not formally join the Society until 1796; led a military committee of </div> <div> the united Irishmen, 1798; captured and mortally wounded in a skirmish in a </div> <div> house in Thomas Street, Dublin.</div> <div>  </div> <div> <IMG SRC="127b0ca0.jpg" border=0 width="176" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Thomas Russell</div> <bR> <div> Thomas Russell (1767-1803) [Madden, United Irishmen]: Born in county Cork; </div> <div> joined the British army, 1782; an original member of the United Irishmen, </div> <div> 1791; contributed to the Northern Star; imprisoned, 1796-1802; met Robert </div> <div> Emmet in Paris and given the task of raising Ulster, 1803; arrested in </div> <div> Dublin; tried and hanged at Downpatrick for high treason. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1298eca0.gif" border=0 width="142" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> William Drennan, M.D.</div> <bR> <div> William Drennan, M.D. (1754-1820) [oil painting by Robert Home, Dec. 1786, </div> <div> Ulster Museum]: Born in Belfast; educated at Glasgow and Edinburgh; Letters </div> <div> of Orellana , an Irish Helot, 1784; wrote the original prospectus of the </div> <div> United Irishmen, 1791, and many of their addresses while Chairman of the </div> <div> Society, 1792-3; tried for sedition but acquitted, 1794; withdrew from </div> <div> politics but continued to express his national feeling in poetry inspired </div> <div> with romanticism. Considered himself an 'aristocratic democrat'. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="12b85ca0.gif" border=0 width="133" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Thomas Addis Emmet</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Thomas Addis Emmet (1764-1827) [Madden, United Irishmen]: Born in Cork; </div> <div> educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Edinburgh and the Continent; called to </div> <div> the Irish Bar, 1790; leading counsel for the United Irishmen; took their oath </div> <div> in open court to prove its legality; secretary to the Society's Supreme </div> <div> Council, 1795; arrested, 1798; exiled, 1799; attempted to interest Napoleon </div> <div> in an invasion of Ireland, 1802, but came to regret the connection of Irish </div> <div> and French politics; sailed to the USA 1804; joined the New York Bar; built </div> <div> up a large practice, specializing in pleading for the liberty of escaped </div> <div> slaves. Characterized by Drennan as 'possessing more eloquence than energy, more caution than action'. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="12da2ca0.gif" border=0 width="162" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Samuel Neilson</div> <bR> <div> Samuel Neilson (1761-1803) [Ulster Museum]: Born in Co. Down, son of a </div> <div> Presbyterian minister; had made his fortune as a draper by 1790; abandoned </div> <div> business for politics; editor of the Northern Star, 1792;arrested, 1796; </div> <div> released on bail and played a part in preparing the 1798 rising; rearrested </div> <div> and gave 'honourable information'; imprisoned and exiled, 1799; favoured Union; died in the USA. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="13085ca0.gif" border=0 width="133" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>William James MacNeven </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>William James MacNeven [Madden, United Irishmen]: Physician, prominent </b></div> <div> <B>Catholic pamphleteer, member of the leading circle of the Catholic Committee </b></div> <div> <B>and the Dublin United Irishmen. </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>More Info</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Distinguished Irish-American physician and medical educator, b. at Ballynahowna, near Aughrim, Co. Galway, Ireland, 21 March, 1763; d. at New York, 12 July, 1841. His ancestors were driven by Cromwell from the North of Ireland where they held large possessions to the wilds of Connaught. William James MacNeven was the eldest of four sons. At the age of twelve he was sent by his uncle Baron MacNeven, to receive his education abroad, for the penal laws rendered education impossible for Catholics in Ireland. This Baron MacNeven was William O'Kelly MacNeven, an Irish exile physician, who for his medical skill in her service had been created an Austrian noble by the Empress Maria Theresa. Young MacNeven made his collegiate studies at Prague. His medical studies were made at Vienna where he was a favourite pupil of the distinguished professor Pestel and took his degree in 1784. The same year he returned to Dublin to practise. A brilliant career opened before him in medicine, but he became involved in the revolutionary disturbances of the time with such men as Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Thomas Addis Emmet, and his brother Robert. He was arrested in March, 1798, and confined in Kilmainham Jail, and afterwards in Fort George, Scotland, until 1802, when he was liberated and exiled. In 1803, he was in Paris seeking an interview with Bonaparte in order to obtain French troops for Ireland. Disappointed in his mission, Dr. MacNeven came to America, landing at New York on 4 July, 1805. </b></div> <div> <B>In 1807, Dr. MacNeven delivered a course of lectures on clinical medicine in the recently established College of Physicians and Surgeons. Here in 1808, he received the appointment of professor of midwifery. In 1810, at the reorganization of the school, he became the professor of chemistry, and in 1816 was appointed in addition to the chair of materia medica. In 1826 with six of his colleagues, he resigned his professorship because of a misunderstanding with the New York Board of Regents, and accepted the chair of materia medica in Rutgers Medical College, a branch of the New Jersey institution of that name, established in New York as a rival to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The school at once became popular because of its faculty, but after four years was closed by legislative enactment on account of interstate difficulties. The attempt to create a school independent of the regents resulted in a reorganization of the University of the State of New York. Dr. MacNeven's best known contribution to science is his "Exposition of the Atomic Theory" (New York, 1820), which was reprinted in the French "Annales de Chimie". In 1821 he published with emendations an edition of Brande's "Chemistry" (New York, 1829). Some of his purely literary works, his "Rambles through Switzerland" (Dublin, 1803), his "Pieces of Irish History" (New York, 1807), and his numerous political tracts attracted wide attention. He was co-editor for many years of the "New York Medical and Philosophical Journal". </b></div> <div> <B>FRANCIS, </b><B>Life of MacNeven</b><B> in GROSS, </b><B>Lives of Eminent American Physicians</b><B> (Philadelphia, 1861); GILMAN in </b><B>New York Medical Gazette</b><B> (1841), 65; BYRNE, </b><B>Memoirs of Miles Byrne</b><B> (Paris, 1863); MADDEN, </b><B>Lives of the United Irishmen</b><B>, series ii, vol. II (London, 1842-46); FITZPATRICK, </b><B>Secret Service under Pitt</b><B> (London, 1892-93). </b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="132aaca0.gif" border=0 width="170" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Archibald Hamilton Rowan</div> <bR> <div> Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751-1834) [National Gallery of Ireland]: Born in </div> <div> London; settled in Co. Kildare, 1784; a founding member of the Northern Whig </div> <div> Club, 1790; joined the United Irishmen, 1791; tried and sentenced for </div> <div> sedition, 1794; escaped to France; the memory of atrocities witnessed during </div> <div> the Reign of Terror made it impossible for him to join any Irish </div> <div> revolutionary enterprise; pardoned, 1803; settled in Co. Down. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="134a9ca0.gif" border=0 width="169" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Arthur O'Connor </div> <bR> <div> Arthur O'Connor (1763-1852) [National Gallery of Ireland]: Born in </div> <div> Mitchelstown; educated at Trinitiy College, Dublin; called to the Irish Bar, </div> <div> 1788; MP for Philipstown, 1791; did not oppose government until 1795; </div> <div> determined to abandon Irish politics and seek an English parliamentary seat, </div> <div> 1796; pursuaded to act otherwise by Lord Edward Fitzgerald; joined the United </div> <div> Irishmen; edited the Press; arrested in England, 1798; released, 1803; went </div> <div> to France; appointed a general by Napoleon and married the daughter of </div> <div> Condorcet; grew fiercely anti-clerical, to the extent of deriding the </div> <div> O'Connellite movement for Catholic relief as priest-ridden. Eccentric, </div> <div> churlish, megalomaniac. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="136a0ca0.gif" border=0 width="160" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> John Sheares</div> <bR> <div> John Sheares (1766-1798) [National Gallery of Ireland]: Barrister, President </div> <div> of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen, executed 1798. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1389cca0.gif" border=0 width="156" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> John Keogh</div> <bR> <div> John Keogh (1740-) [ Gwynne, Keogh]: wealthy Dublin silk merchant, acquired </div> <div> extensive landed interests in Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Dublin, leading </div> <div> figure of the republican faction within the Catholic Committee; became </div> <div> involved with the United Irishmen in the early years, but withdrew 1794-95. </div> <div> Formidable leader of Irish Catholics, a shrewed and no-nonsense kind of </div> <div> politician. Widely accepted in spite of his dictatorial style of leadership. </div> <div> According to Tone, vain as a peacock. </div> <div> [Unable to display image]</div> <div> Rev. William Jackson</div> <bR> <div> Rev. William Jackson [ Walker's Hibernian Magazine, 1795] </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Bibliographical note: The biographies above are taken from Roy Foster, Modern </div> <div> Ireland, 1600-1972, London 1988 </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="392" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="388"><div> United Irishmen</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> United Irishmen or United Irish Society,Irish political organization. It was founded at Belfast in 1791 by Theobald Wolfe Tone. Disgruntled by the use of English patronage to control Irish politics, the organization aimed at legislative reform “founded on the principles of civil, political, and religious liberty.” Yet there was, from the outset, an undercurrent of revolutionary striving toward independence that was encouraged by the progress of the French Revolution. Tone, with James Napper Tandy, started a branch at Dublin; this became the center of the movement, which spread rapidly throughout Ireland. The society was suppressed in 1794 and became a secret revolutionary organization. Tone was exiled and went to France to request aid. A French force did attempt an invasion in 1796, but it was wrecked off the southwest coast of Ireland. The British government waged a campaign of brutal repression in Ulster in an attempt, largely successful, to break up the cohesive center of the movement. In Mar., 1798, several southern leaders were arrested, and when rebellion did break out in May, it was in isolated, sporadic bursts. The only appreciable success was in Co. Wexford, but the rebels there were defeated in the battle of Vinegar Hill, June 21. Two months later a small French force landed, but it received almost no support and surrendered. A larger invasion force, led by Tone, was intercepted by the British navy, and Tone was captured. 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