Posts Tagged ‘Negro National League’
Kansas City Municipal Stadium – Muehlebach, Ruppert, and Blues
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,…
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 MoreGriffith Stadium And The Site Of D.C.’s First Nationals 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…
Read MoreBugle 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…
Read MoreChicago’s South Side Park And The Neighborhood Of Lost Ballparks
South Side Park, located at the intersection of W Pershing Road and S Princeton Street in Chicago, Illinois, was the home of the Chicago White Sox from their inception in the American League in 1901 until mid way through the 1910 season. Starting in 1911, the ballpark was home to Rube Foster’s Chicago American Giants.…
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