Paul E. Joseph Stadium

This little ballpark in Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands is one of the places where Frederiksted native Horace Clarke grew up playing. As he related in Philip Bashe's 1994 book, Dog Days, at age 13 or so, he remembered seeing Navy ship's teams playing hardball there against the locals. He added:

"As kids we formed teams and played wherever we could, usually on Saturdays. If the older players were using the ballpark, we were relegated to a small area by the ocean."

"Almost all of us were right-handed. And since we were strong enough to hit the ball into the water, we switched sides at the plate, and everybody batted left-handed, so we wouldn't lose the ball."