Ellwood City Celebrates 100th Anniversary Of Ewing Park

On Friday, June 18th, Ellwood City reached a very important milestone.

Ewing Park has been the baseball park of Ellwood City for 100 years now. On June 18th 1921, the very first baseball was played in Ellwood. On that day, the Ellwood City Shelby county league defeated Hubbard, Ohio 20-9. The New Castle News reported, “Ewing Park”, which was used for the very first time, and it proved that Ewing Park is the perfect place for playing baseball. Ewing Park became the baseball hub for Ellwood City and remains, 100 years later, the baseball center of Ellwood City.

On this past Friday, the two Ellwood City Pony League teams in the Lawrence-Butler-Mercer County League met for the 100th anniversary of the first game played at the complex. The Hungarian Home met WesBanco on  Sanders Field.

The Hungarian Home and Wesbanco tied 2-2 in very well played game but the game had to be called due to darkness after seven innings. Ellwood City High School baseball Head Coach Chris Weisz was in attendance to watch his future Wolverines in action.