Editing Gloucester City, New Jersey (section)

==Sports==
[[Gloucester Point Grounds]] is a former [[baseball]] stadium that was the part-time home to the Philadelphia Athletics from 1888 to 1890, with the Athletics playing games there on Sunday to avoid [[blue law]] restrictions in Philadelphia.<ref>[http://www.gloucestercitynews.net/clearysnotebook/2007/01/gloucester_city.html?asset_id=6a00d8341bf7d953ef00d8353b82dc53ef "Gloucester City History - Gloucester City: Reinvention over centuries"], ''[[Courier-Post]]'', October 19, 2006. Accessed November 15, 2014. "Gloucester City has significant but little known ties to Major League Baseball. Gloucester Point Grounds ballfield was home to the Philadelphia Athletics -- the forerunner of the American League team -- on Sundays from 1887 to 1889. At the time, Philadelphia's [[blue laws]] prohibited the A's from playing on Sundays in their usual park, the Jefferson Street Grounds."</ref>

John L. Sullivan World Champion Boxer had an exhibition match with William Muldoon Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion in Gloucester in 1889.<ref>[http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1889/VOL_13_NO_08/SL1308007.pdf Sporting Life / May 30, 1889]</ref>

[[Annie Oakley]] performed in Gloucester City on July 2, 1888 at the grandstand Gloucester Point Grounds along the Gloucester Beach in New Jersey as part of the Pawnee Bill Frontier Exhibition. Oakley would return to Gloucester City for exhibitions in 1898.<ref>[http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1898/VOL_32_NO_14/SL3214015.pdf Sporting Life / Dec. 1898]</ref>