Gus Greenlee’s Field In Pittsburgh’s Hill District

A street sign near Gus Greenlee's Field

Greenlee Field was located at the intersection of Bedford Avenue and Junilla Street in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1932 until 1938 it was the home of the Pittsburgh Crawfords of the Negro National League (the Crawfords joined the NNL in 1933). Greenlee Field is important not just because it was the home…

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Paterson New Jersey’s Hinchliffe Stadium – A Diamond In The Rough

Hinchliffe Stadium is located at the intersection of Liberty Street and Maple Street in Paterson, New Jersey. The ballpark is set directly behind Paterson Public School No. 5, located at 430 Totowa Avenue, just three blocks northeast of the entrance on Maple Street to Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park. Hinchliffe Stadium is named after…

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Kansas City Municipal Stadium – Muehlebach, Ruppert, and Blues

The entrance to the Kansas City Municipal Stadium

Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium was the primary sports venue for the city for 50 years. Opened in 1923, the ball field was home to both major league and minor league baseball, as well as Negro League baseball and professional football. At first a single-deck stadium, from 1923 to 1937 the ballpark was known as Muehlebach Field,…

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Westport Stadium – Baltimore’s Last Negro League Ballpark

Westport Stadium was Baltimore’s last Negro League ballpark. Located in Westport, a Baltimore neighborhood just south of the intersection of I-95 and I-295, the ballpark was the home field of the 1950 Negro American League Baltimore Elite Giants. Previously, the Elite Giants had played their home games primarily at Bugle Field located in East Baltimore at the…

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Bugle Field – Home of the Baltimore Elite Giants

Bugle Field was located in East Baltimore at the intersection of Federal Street and Edison Highway, just a few blocks south of Baltimore Cemetery and approximately one and a half miles off I-895. In 1912, Edward C. Lastner of the Simpson and Doeller Company (a company that printed can labels), with seed money provided by…

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Rickwood Field – Baseball’s Time Capsule

Rickwood Field, located at 1137 2nd St W, in Birmingham, Alabama, is a century-old time capsule of America’s National Pastime. It is recognized by the Historic American Building Survey as the country’s oldest surviving baseball park. Constructed by Birmingham Barons owner Rick Woodward (hence the name), the first professional game played there was a contest…

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J.P. Small Memorial Park – Jacksonville’s Oldest Ballfield

Baseball has been played at 1701 Myrtle Avenue in Jacksonville, Florida, since 1912. Currently known as J.P. Small Memorial Park, the ball field has been the site of major league spring training, minor league games, Negro League games, and countless high school and college contests, as well as high school and college football. From 1912…

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Durham Athletic Park – A Real Life Major Motion Picture Site

The Durham Athletic Park

Durham Athletic Park (often referred to with the acronym DAP) is located at the intersection of Washington Street and W. Corporation Street in Durham, North Carolina. Home to minor league baseball beginning in 1926, for the first seven years of its existence the ballpark was known as El Toro Park. The ballpark was renamed Durham…

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War Memorial Stadium – Greensboro, North Carolina

War Memorial Stadium in Greensboro, North Carolina, was opened in 1926. From 1930 until 2004, the ballpark was the home to a Greensboro’s minor league baseball teams. The ballpark’s first minor league tenants were the Greensboro Patriots, an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. Over the years, the major league affiliated teams that made War…

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Searching For The Baltimore Black Sox’s Lost Ballparks

The 1913 Baltimore Black Sox

Just south of Camden Yards are two historic baseball sites, the exact location of which was unknown until November 2013. The first was Maryland Baseball Park, located at the intersection of Bush Street and Russell Street, where the Baltimore Black Sox played from 1921 to 1932. The second was Westport Park, located two blocks south…

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