“It is said that Jim Thorpe once hit a ball into an adjoining state when playing semi-professional ball in Texas. I don’t know what the big deal is; they do that all the time in Rhode Island.’’
— Jim Hart, in “Swing for the Fences” speech in Des Moines on July 25, 2001
Cardines Field, in Newport, home of the Newport Gulls, a collegiate summer baseball team. The Gulls have played at Cardines Field since 2001.
America’s Cup Boulevard is to the left.
— Photo by Nick Lima
