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Baltimore’s First American League Park – Original Home of the Future New York Yankees
The southwest corner of East 29th Street and Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, is the site of two former major league baseball fields. From 1890-1891, the site held Oriole Park (II) (the second Oriole Park according to Phillip Lowry and his excellent book Green Cathedrals) and was home to the American Association Baltimore Orioles. A…
Read MoreCleveland’s League Park – The Oldest Former MLB Park Still Standing (Somewhat)
Located at the corner of Lexington and East 66th Street, just three miles east of the Cleveland Indian’s current home, Progressive Field, is a historical baseball structure unmatched anywhere else in the United States. For at that corner stands League Park, or what’s left of it. Once home to both Cleveland’s National League and American League…
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