Historic scoreboard returns to Myers Park Trinity
The scoreboard has been restored after years of exposure to the elements
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A piece of history slides safely to home at Myers Park Trinity Little League
The old manual scoreboard at E.C. Griffith Field has been restored and installed at Myers Park Trinity Little League fields on the corner of Randolph and Billingsley roads in south Charlotte. It sits behind the plaque of former coach and league president Lloyd Caudle. (Photo courtesy of DC Lucchesi)
A long-lost manual scoreboard from an old south Charlotte youth baseball field has returned to Myers Park Trinity Little League’s fields at a county park, across the street from its original location.
Generations of Charlotteans played baseball at E.C. Griffith Field with Myers Park Trinity, which was founded in 1952. In the early ’90s, the field was torn down to make way for the Eastover Ridge apartments, near the intersection of Randolph and Billingsley roads. The league moved across the street to Randolph Road Park, now home to a stadium and multiple fields.
A Charlotte Observer article in 1993 called E.C. Griffith the oldest Little League field in Charlotte and one of the oldest (at least in terms of continuous use) in the country.
The historic wooden scoreboard, likely installed in the 1980s, had been forgotten for decades until a former player’s family found it tucked away behind a garage, said Hunter Parsons, who led the restoration and reinstallation project.
“It’s special because it was part of my childhood,” said Parsons, 51. He played in the Little League in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
“Most of us that grew up in south Charlotte played at Myers Park Trinity Little League,” Parsons said. “We certainly all have fond memories of those days playing Little League, and E.C. Griffith was a big part of that.”
After years of exposure to the elements and then being in storage, the scoreboard needed some work.
“The sign of the scoreboard itself was quite rusty,” Parsons said. “Our goal was to clean it up to where it was presentable, legible and could be structurally sound enough to hang up as a display piece.”
Parsons, who owns a powerwashing company called Hunter Window Cleaning, used his expertise and “elbow grease” to bring the piece back to life.
Now, the scoreboard hangs in the center of Randolph Road Park, with a nod to the league’s founding: Vinyl numbers spell out the year Myers Park Trinity Little League was established, disguised as a fictional game score.
“If you’re looking at the scoreboard, the home team’s up to bat, they’re down one run, but the scoreboard spells out 1952,” Parsons said.
Parsons says for him and others, the scoreboard is a reminder of the community that Myers Park Trinity Little League fostered through the generations.
“There is a strong allegiance to this Little League, both by current families and by Charlotte natives who grew up playing here,” Parsons said. “It’s a special place, and it’s a lot of fun.” —Lindsey Banks
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