Hamilton Park, also known as Brewster Park and Howard Avenue Grounds, was a sports venue in

New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,02 ...

, located at the intersection of Whalley Avenue and West Park Avenue.Ed Stannard
Photography exhibit reveals 'lost New Haven'
, The New Haven Register, Sunday, February 8, 2009 Hamilton Park hosted

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

sports competitions in the 19th century. It was the first home field for Yale's

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

team, used from 1870 until

Yale Field George H.W. Bush Field (commonly known as Bush Field, originally Yale Field) is a stadium in West Haven, Connecticut, just across the city line with New Haven, Connecticut. It is primarily used for the Yale University baseball team, the Bulldogs, ...

was acquired in the 1880s.Clarence Deming and Henry Walcott Farnam (1915),
Yale Yesterday
', Yale University Press The park hosted

horse race Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its basic p ...

s and was home to the New Haven Elm Citys

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 tea ...

team of the National Association during the

1875 Events January–March * January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the ...

season. It is considered a major league ballpark by those who count the

National Association as a major league The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP), often known simply as the National Association (NA), was the first fully- professional sports league in baseball. The NA was founded in 1871 and continued through the 1875 se ...

as well as by those who recognize isolated games, as the Hartford club hosted one game there in 1877.

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