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Osborne Stadium

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presided over both the Greater Winnipeg Senior Girls' Softball League and the Greater Winnipeg Senior Baseball League played at the stadium, and was a regular behind the microphone entertaining spectators during baseball games. The Manitoba Senior Baseball League began play at the stadium in 1948,
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system for nighttime games, had a permanent seating capacity of 4,000 which included 2,600 seats on the east side and 1,400 seats on the west side, and temporarily added 2,500 seats for special events. Construction of the stadium required the removal of houses in the residential
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to see both a girls' softball game and a men's soccer game. The opening ceremony included music by the
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Opening night for Osborne Stadium was on May 19, 1932, with an admission price of 25
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inundated the stadium which postponed the beginning of that year's baseball season.
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The stadium was located on the west side of Osborne Street North opposite of the
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Winnipeg
Coordinates
49°53′01″N 97°09′00″W / 49.8835057°N 97.1500182°W / 49.8835057; -97.1500182
Capacity
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
CFL
Mandak League
Winnipeg
Canadian football
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Mandak League
high school football
Canadian cents
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
CFB Shilo
Ralph Webb
John Bracken
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Manitoba Legislative Building
Canadian football
high school football
floodlight
West Broadway neighbourhood
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Jimmy Dunn
Mandak League
1950 Red River flood
Winnipeg Stadium
1953 football season
Great-West Life

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