Jacksonville’s Wolfson Park Now the NFL Jaguars’ Practice Field

Deadball Baseball

Jacksonville Baseball Park was located at 1201 East Duval Street in Jacksonville, Florida, just northwest of the former Gator Bowl. Constructed in 1954, the ballpark opened in March 1955, hosting a spring training game between the Washington Senators and the Cincinnati Reds. That same month, the ballpark hosted another spring training game between the soon-to-be…

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Bloomington’s Metropolitan Stadium – MIA At The MOA

A postcard on the Metropolitan Stadium

Metropolitan Stadium was located in Bloomington, Minnesota, 15 miles south of Minneapolis and just south of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport off I-494. The ballpark was home to the American Association Minneapolis Millers from 1956 until 1960, the American League Minnesota Twins from 1961 to 1981, and the National Football League Minnesota Vikings from 1961 to…

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Griffith Stadium And The Site Of D.C.’s First Nationals Park

The American League Park

Baseball was played in Washington, D.C., at the intersection of Georgia and Florida Avenues for 70 years, beginning in 1891, up through the end of the 1961 season. The original ballpark, called Boundary Field because it was located on Boundary Road (now Florida Avenue) at the District of Columbia’s former city limits, was home in 1891…

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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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