Gordon And Koppel Field on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Gordon and Koppel Field is a former 
The ballfield was located on a block bound by Lydia Avenue and The Paseo (east, left field); 47th Street (north, third base) (approximates Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard); Tracy Avenue (west, first base); and Brush Creek (south, right field).
The field was subject to flooding from Brush Creek, which occasionally wrought havoc with the games. After the Federal experiment, the site was soon abandoned. In the summer of 1917, the ballpark site was sold for development. ansas City ''Times'', June 5, 1917, p.4The land once occupied by the ballpark is now a public park called Kiely Park, which also contains a few commercial businesses, primarily restaurants.
Ballpark photo
Defunct baseball venues in the United States Sports venues in Missouri Federal League venues Sports venues in Kansas City, Missouri Defunct sports venues in Missouri {{Missouri-baseball-venue-stub
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
ground located in Kansas City, Missouri. The ground was home to the Kansas City Packers
The Kansas City Packers were a Federal League baseball club in Kansas City from 1914 to 1915. They finished sixth in 1914 with a 67–84 record, and fourth in 1915 with an 81–72 record.
The Packers moved to Kansas City in July 1913 from Coving ...
of the Federal League
The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, known simply as the Federal League, was an American professional baseball league that played its first season as a minor league in 1913 and operated as a "third major league", in competition with the e ...
, a third major league in 1914 and 1915. It was also called Gordon and Koppel ''Stadium'', and variously stylized as Gordon & Koppel or Gordon-Koppel.
The local Gordon & Koppel Clothing Company, which included sporting goods among its wares, was operated by Arthur F. Gordon and Hugo M. Koppel, who created the Gordon & Koppel Athletic Company. They opened the multi-purpose Gordon & Koppel Stadium in 1910. Events reported in the local newspapers included baseball, football and track-and-field. The city directory gave Gordon & Koppel Stadium's address as "47th treet
Treet (Armour Star Treet) is a canned meat product similar to Spam first introduced in 1939 by Armour and Company in the United States. Sold as "spiced luncheon loaf", it is made with chicken and pork and has a more finely ground texture than S ...
southeast corner Tracy Avenue."
Prior to the Federal League's arrival, the most important event held at the stadium was probably the November 24, 1910, Kansas vs. Missouri annual rivalry college football game. The game ended in a 5-5 tie, each team scoring a touchdown (worth 5 points at the time) and missing the subsequent extra point attempts. The Kansas players in particular were not happy with the field conditions, saying the surface was too hard and could cause injuries. eavenworth Weekly Times, November 24, 1910, p.1The change in venue gave the annual event a boost, with the highest gate receipts recorded to that point in the series ($34,000). tchison Daily Globe, November 25, p.7This entry in the rivalry series was the last one to be played in Kansas City until 1944.
The Federal League began operating as a minor league in 1913, with the Kansas City Packers as a member and with home games being played on Gordon & Koppel Field, as the papers were calling it by then. Two members of the Gordon family were on the team's board of directors. The league declared itself a major league for 1914, and Kansas City continued as a league member for its two-year existence at major status. In 1914, the Packers finished in sixth place, 20 games back of first place. They fared better in 1915, finishing 5 1/2 games behind, but that was the end of it.
The ballfield was located on a block bound by Lydia Avenue and The Paseo (east, left field); 47th Street (north, third base) (approximates Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard); Tracy Avenue (west, first base); and Brush Creek (south, right field).
The field was subject to flooding from Brush Creek, which occasionally wrought havoc with the games. After the Federal experiment, the site was soon abandoned. In the summer of 1917, the ballpark site was sold for development. ansas City ''Times'', June 5, 1917, p.4The land once occupied by the ballpark is now a public park called Kiely Park, which also contains a few commercial businesses, primarily restaurants.
References
* * *''The Federal League of 1914-1915'', by Marc Okkonen, SABR, 1989.External links
Ballpark photo
Defunct baseball venues in the United States Sports venues in Missouri Federal League venues Sports venues in Kansas City, Missouri Defunct sports venues in Missouri {{Missouri-baseball-venue-stub