Posts Tagged ‘Babe Ruth’
The Six Different Ballparks Known As Oriole Park
Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland, is considered by some to be one of the most beautiful ballparks in the country. Now over 20 years old, it helped usher in the era of “retro ballparks” that swept both major league and minor league ballparks over the past two decades. Oriole Park at Camden…
Read MoreLouisville’s Parkway Field and Cardinal Stadium
Parkway Field was located at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and South Brook Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Constructed in 1923 on land purchased from the University of Louisville, Parkway Field was the home ballpark of the Minor League American Association Louisville Colonels from 1923 until 1956. An earlier incarnation of the American Association Louisville Colonels played…
Read MoreNicollet Park – Home Of the Minneapolis Millers
Nicollet Park was a minor league ballpark in Minneapolis, Minnesota, located approximately two and one half miles south of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The distinctive Tutor building that was the main entrance to Nicollet Park (shown in the photograph above) was located behind the former right field corner at the intersection of 31st Street and…
Read MoreJ.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…
Read MoreAtlanta’s Other Lost Ballpark – Ponce De Leon Park
Long before Turner Field, before Fulton County Stadium, there was a wonderful minor league ballpark in Atlanta known as Ponce De Leon Park. Ponce De Leon was the home to the Atlanta Crackers and Atlanta Black Crackers. The Atlanta Crackers played in the Southern Association from 1901 until 1965, and played at Ponce De Leon in…
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