PARK FACT:
Some consider Madison Square Park the birthplace of baseball, since Alexander Cartwright formed the first baseball club there in 1845.
Madison Square Park
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut 
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- Sculptor: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Architect: Stanford White
- Description: Standing figure (over life-size) with integral plinth, on pedestal with extended exedra wings; pedestal has bas-relief of sword in ocean waves; each wing has a life-size bas-relief of seated female figure
- Materials: Bronze; Coopersberg (Pennyslvania) black granite
- Cast: 1880
- Dedicated: May 25, 1881
- Foundry: Adolphe Gruet
- Donor: New York Farragut Association
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