A popular sports bar in San Francisco’s Mission District was heavily damaged in a fire Saturday.
The Double Play Bar and Grill was at 16th and Bryant streets, in a space that has been home to a bar since 1909.
It was filled with baseball memorabilia and steeped in baseball history, being across the street from the former site of Seals Stadium — home to the Pacific Coast League San Francisco Seals from 1931 to 1957 and to the newly arrived Giants for two seasons before Candlestick Park opened.
“The Double Play has burned down,” the restaurant wrote on its Facebook page. “Thank you to all the customers that have shared amazing memories here and enjoyed the food. … We will be closed until further notice.”
Details about what caused Saturday morning’s fire were not immediately available.
Though the owner’s statement said the Double Play had “burned down,” Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the neighborhood, said the fire was stopped before it spread to the units above the bar in the three-story building.
Those units have been office space since the mid-1980s. A plan submitted last year to the city planning commission proposed converting them back to their original use as residential apartments.
San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798 also wrote on social media Saturday morning about the blaze: “This morning a landmark, Double Play, caught on fire. Many firefighters frequented this bar. This is a loss for all in the community,” the union tweeted.
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