I went to see my son play t-ball on Saturday, and it was played in an amazing downtown San Francisco park - Victoria Manalo Draves, on 6th and Folsom (see here). This little gem of a park has a beautiful little league field, a small dog park, 2 play structures for different ages, and a full basketball court - it's like a microcosm of San Francisco politics - trying to please everyone at the same time, but in this case, unlike the dysfunctional Board of Supervisors and Mayor Gavin Newsom,
it's actually succeeding. It opened October, 2006 and is named after an SF double medalist in the 1948 London Olympics.
The admittedly urban park in a somewhat rough neighborhood has a limited amount of grafitti, and a small homeless issue (bathrooms in particular), but it gets a great deal of use from a really diverse audience - it's a great example of the best that an urban SF park can offer, and I encourage downtown parents to give it a shot if they have not done so yet.
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