sentences:  Thomas Lowry, who lived on a hill overlooking the grounds, and others donated most of the land for The Parade to the Minneapolis park board in 1904.The board did not act on Lowry's suggestion for a golf course for the park but did express its intent to use the area for active recreation purposes.In the spring of 1908, the park board developed five baseball fields at The Parade, which were the city's first public recreation facilities.