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
Eternal Light Flagstaff 
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- Sculptor: Paul Wayland Bartlett
- Architect: Thomas Hastings
- Description: Flagstaff with ornamented base
- Materials: Base--bronze and Milford pink granite
- Cast: 1924
- Dedicated: 1924
- Donor: Rodman Wanamaker
- Inscription: 1: east face: " 'TIS THE / STAR SPANGLED BANNER / OH LONG MAY IT WAVE/ O'ER THE LAND / OF THE FREE / AND THE HOME OF / THE BRAVE" 2) east:: "YPRES-LYS / AISNE LYS / SOMME DEFENSIVE / SOMME OFFENSIVE' 3 west face: OISE-AISNE / ST. MIHIEL / CAMBRAI / AISNE-MARNE/ VITTORIO-VENETO/ MUSE-ARGONNE / SOMME OFFENSIVE / CHAMPAGNE-MARNE / MONTDIDIER-NOYON/ THIS STAR WAS LIGHTED / NOVEMBER XI MCMXXIII/ NORTH FACE: IN MEMORY OF THOSE / WHO HAVE MADE / THE SUPREME SACRIFICE / FOR THE TRIUMPH OF / THE FREE PEOPLES / OF THE WORLD/ SOUTH FACE: ERECTED / TO COMMEMORATE / THE FIRST HOMECOMING / OF THE VICTORIOUS / ARMY AND NAVY / OF THESE UNITED STATES / OFFICIALLY RECEIVED BY / THE CITY OF NEW YORK / ON THIS SITE / ANNO DOMINI MCMXVIII
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