Bernardo Cardines was an Italian immigrant, a resident alien, a tailor and a future soldier who lived just a short distance from one of the earliest baseball parks in the United States. He had journeyed to Rhode Island by his 15th birthday, registered for the draft by his 22nd birthday. He never celebrated his 23rd birthday. He was killed on a battlefield in France during World War I.

Remembering the sacrifice of the immigrant was one of the story lines Friday when the iconic ballfield on America’s Cup Way was rededicated in Cardines’ name. The event, organized in part by the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission, also featured an old-fashioned baseball game between Naval War College students dressed in World War I-era Navy and Army baseball uniforms.