Posts Tagged ‘New York Yankees’
Crescent Lake Park/Huggins-Stengel Field in St. Petersburg, Florida
Crecent Lake Park is located at 1320 5th Street N in St. Petersburg, Florida. In the southern most part of the park, tucked away in a residential neighborhood, is an important and relatively unspoiled historical baseball site. Beginning in 1925, the ball field at Crescent Lake Park was the spring training home of the American League…
Read MoreThe Polo Grounds, Coogan’s Bluff, and the Brush Memorial Stairway
The Polo Grounds was located in Harlem, New York, at 157th Street and 8th Avenue. Various incarnations of ballparks at that location were home to three different major league teams: the National League New York Giants from 1891 to 1957, the New York Yankees from 1913 to 1922, and the New York Mets in 1962…
Read MoreBaltimore’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 MoreI Still Can’t Believe They Tore Down Old Yankee Stadium
Old Yankee Stadium was the home of the New York Yankees from 1923 to 2008. It was located at 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx, across 161st Street from the new Yankee Stadium. The stadium was renovated extensively during the 1970s. For some fans, the true “old Yankee Stadium” is the one that…
Read MoreHilltop Park And the Church of Baseball
Perched on a hill overlooking the Hudson River at the southwest corner of Broadway and 168th Street in Washington Heights was Hilltop Park, the original home ball field of the New York Yankees (known then as the Highlanders). The third base grandstand, which once ran parallel to Fort Washington Avenue, is shown in the picture…
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