Lost venues, 1950–1979
Postwar suburban stadiums, the first domes and the circular multipurpose stadiums shared by baseball and football.
259 venues
View on map →Boston Arena (Matthews Arena)
Boston Arena, renamed Matthews Arena in 1982, opened in 1910 and was the first home of the Boston Bruins and an early home of the Celtics. Northeastern University closed it in December 2025 and began taking it down in 2026.
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.
Nazareth Speedway
A Lehigh Valley racing site, associated with the Andretti family, whose paved one-mile oval hosted CART, IRL and NASCAR Busch racing from 1987 until International Speedway Corporation closed it in 2004.
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.
Polo Grounds
This was the fourth ballpark to carry the Polo Grounds name. It was rebuilt in concrete and steel on Coogan's Hollow after a 1911 fire and served baseball and football until 1963, then came down in 1964 for public housing.
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.
Havre de Grace Racetrack
Havre de Grace Racetrack in northeastern Maryland hosted Thoroughbred racing from 1912 to 1950. The Maryland National Guard now uses the site and some old buildings.
Tiger Stadium
Tiger Stadium stood at Michigan and Trumbull in Detroit and was the Tigers' home from 1912 to 1999. It was demolished in 2008–09, and its preserved field reopened as a youth ballpark in 2018.
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.
Bowie Race Track
Bowie Race Track in Prince George's County, Maryland, raced Thoroughbreds from 1914 to 1985 and pioneered winter racing in the 1950s. The grounds were later used as a training center.
Broadway Arena
The Broadway Arena on Halsey Street in Brooklyn staged boxing from 1914 to 1951 and wrestling until 1952. The building became a warehouse and supermarket, and housing now occupies the site.
New Haven Arena
New Haven Arena on Grove Street was the city's hockey arena from 1914, rebuilt in 1927 after a fire, until the New Haven Coliseum opened in 1972. It was demolished in 1974.
Normal Park
Normal Park was a football and baseball field on Chicago's South Side, in use from about 1914 to about 1951. It was an early home of the NFL's Chicago Cardinals.
Balboa Stadium
Balboa Stadium, built for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, was the San Diego Chargers' home from 1961 to 1966. The original stadium was demolished in the 1970s and replaced by a small 3,000-seat field in 1978.
Braves Field
Braves Field was the Boston Braves' ballpark on Commonwealth Avenue from 1915 to 1952. After the team left, Boston University bought it, and part of the old structure survives inside the university's Nickerson Field.
Clyde Williams Field
Clyde Williams Field was Iowa State's on-campus football stadium from 1915 to 1975. It was razed in 1978 and residence halls now occupy 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.
Stoll Field/McLean Stadium
Stoll Field, whose grandstands were named McLean Stadium in 1924, was the University of Kentucky's football home until 1972. The stands were razed in the 1970s.
Lakewood Speedway
A one-mile dirt oval at Atlanta's Lakewood fairgrounds, raced from 1917 to 1979 and known as the Indianapolis of the South, whose site is now partly covered by Lakewood Amphitheatre's parking.
Hollywood Legion Stadium
Hollywood Legion Stadium, run by American Legion Post 43, was Hollywood's boxing and wrestling arena from the early 1920s until 1959. The 1938 building survives as a gym.
Laurel Garden Arena
Laurel Garden Arena on Springfield Avenue in Newark, New Jersey, was a 3,000-seat boxing and wrestling club from 1922 until about 1953. It was demolished in the mid-1950s.
Mark's Stadium
Mark's Stadium in North Tiverton, Rhode Island, opened in 1922 as the home of the Fall River Marksmen of the American Soccer League. It was torn down in the 1950s and the site is now an empty lot.
Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)
Baltimore's 33rd Street stadium, begun as a 1922 football bowl and rebuilt around 1950-54, was home to the Orioles through 1991 and to the Colts, Stallions and Ravens before demolition in 2001-02.
University of Detroit Stadium
University of Detroit Stadium was the Titans' football field and the Detroit Lions' early home, including their 1935 championship. It was demolished in 1971.