Negro Leagues Ballparks
Negro leagues teams played in parks they owned, like Pittsburgh's Greenlee Field, and in major league and minor league parks they rented, like Griffith Stadium and Ruppert Stadium.
This collection gathers the venues in the atlas with a documented Negro leagues tenant. Team pages list which seasons each club played at each venue where the sources support it.
27 venues
Sulphur Dell
Sulphur Dell was Nashville's main ballpark from 1885 to 1963, known for its steep right-field slope. It was razed in 1969, and the Sounds' First Horizon Park now stands on the site.
Baker Bowl
Baker Bowl was the Phillies' home at Broad and Lehigh from 1887 to mid-1938. Its tiny right field and steep wall made it a hitter's park; it was gone by 1950.
Borchert Field
Borchert Field, opened in 1888 as Athletic Park, was the cramped north-side Milwaukee ballpark that housed the minor-league Brewers for half a century before County Stadium.
League Park
League Park, at East 66th Street and Lexington Avenue, was Cleveland's major league ballpark from 1891 and the Indians' main home until 1946. Part of it survives in a city park that reopened in 2014.
Russwood Park
Russwood Park was Memphis's main ballpark on Madison Avenue, home of the Southern Association Chicks. It burned down on Easter night 1960, hours after its last game.
South Side Park
South Side Park was the White Sox's home from 1900 to 1910 and, as Schorling's Park, the Chicago American Giants' home until a fire in December 1940. Public housing now stands on the site.
Vaughn Street Park
Vaughn Street Park was the home of Portland's Pacific Coast League Beavers from 1901 through 1955. It was razed in 1956 and the site is now industrial land.
Ponce de Leon Park
Ponce de Leon Park was Atlanta's principal ballpark for nearly six decades, home of the minor-league Crackers and the Negro league Black Crackers, remembered for a magnolia tree in play in deep center field.
Shibe Park
Shibe Park, renamed Connie Mack Stadium in 1953, was Philadelphia's major league ballpark from 1909 to 1970. It was the Athletics' home and later the Phillies'. A church now occupies the site.
Comiskey Park
Comiskey Park was the Chicago White Sox's South Side home from 1910 to 1990. It hosted the first All-Star Game and was replaced by a new park built across 35th Street.
Griffith Stadium
Griffith Stadium was Washington's major league ballpark from 1911 to 1961. It stood on the site of an earlier park near Howard University and was replaced by Howard University Hospital.
Crosley Field
Crosley Field, first called Redland Field, was the Cincinnati Reds' ballpark in the city's West End from 1912 to mid-1970. It hosted the first night game in the major leagues.
Ebbets Field
Ebbets Field was the Brooklyn Dodgers' home in Flatbush from 1913 through 1957. It was razed in 1960 and replaced by an apartment complex.
Terrapin Park
Terrapin Park was built for Baltimore's 1914-15 Federal League club and then served the International League Orioles as Oriole Park until it burned in July 1944. Rowhouses, a school and a brewery now occupy the site.
Hilldale Park
Hilldale Park on the Darby-Yeadon line was the home of the Hilldale Club, the 1925 Negro league world champions, from 1914 to 1932. Stores and parking lots now cover the site.
Pelican Stadium
Pelican Stadium, first called Heinemann Park, was the New Orleans Pelicans' home at Tulane and Carrollton avenues from 1915 to 1957. It was torn down and a hotel was built on the site.
Municipal Stadium (Kansas City)
Kansas City's Municipal Stadium, opened in 1923 as Muehlebach Field, served the Monarchs, the Athletics, the Chiefs and the early Royals until 1972. It was torn down in 1976.
Parkway Field
Parkway Field was the American Association Louisville Colonels' ballpark from 1923 to 1956 and later a University of Louisville field. Its grandstand was razed in 1961, and the grounds are now intramural fields.
Offermann Stadium
Offermann Stadium was the International League Buffalo Bisons' ballpark on Michigan Avenue from 1924 to 1960. It was torn down in 1961 and a school was built on the site.
Ruppert Stadium
Ruppert Stadium was the Ironbound ballpark of the Yankees' top farm club, the Newark Bears, and the Negro National League Newark Eagles, who won the 1946 Negro World Series there.
Buffalo Stadium
Buffalo Stadium, built by the St. Louis Cardinals for the Texas League Houston Buffaloes, opened in Houston's East End in 1928. It was sold for salvage in 1963, and a furniture showroom later went up on the site.
Silver Stadium
Silver Stadium, opened in 1929 as Red Wing Stadium on Norton Street, was home to the Rochester Red Wings for 68 seasons before the club moved downtown.
Hamtramck Stadium
Hamtramck Stadium was built in 1930 for Detroit's Negro league teams and is one of the few surviving Negro league ballparks. It has been restored for community baseball.
Bush Stadium
Bush Stadium, opened in 1931 as Perry Stadium, was the Indianapolis Indians' home until 1996. It was partly demolished and turned into the Stadium Lofts apartments in 2013.
Greenlee Field
Greenlee Field was the Hill District ballpark Gus Greenlee built in 1932 for his Pittsburgh Crawfords, recognized as the first Negro league stadium owned and built by African Americans.
Ray Winder Field
Ray Winder Field hosted the Travelers in Little Rock from 1932 to 2006, using the same grandstand throughout. It was demolished in 2012.
Sick's Stadium
Sick's Stadium was a Rainier Valley ballpark built by brewer Emil Sick for his PCL Rainiers in 1938 and pressed into service as the one-season major league home of the 1969 Seattle Pilots.