Photo Gallery to document the history and accomplishments of the Ward Baking Company, it founder Robert Boyd Ward, and his contributions to early American Baseball.

RB Ward was Vice President of the Federal League and owner of the Brooklyn Tip-Tops, who assumed Washington Park from the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Washington Park, which hosted the 1914-15 Brooklyn Tip-Tops, had two 80ft. lighting towers constructed for the 1916 season. Since the demise of the Federal League in 1915, baseball patrons had to wait twenty years to see ballgames after sunset. President Franklin Roosevelt threw the light switch to the first Major League night game at Crosley Field, in 1935, from the White House six hundred miles away.