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s used for professional

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in the five boroughs of New York City. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed.

Brooklyn

;York Street Park :Home of:

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– amateur (c. 1855–1865) :Location: Brooklyn – York Street :Currently: approach ramps for

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;Excelsior grounds (I) :Home of: Excelsior – amateur (1854–1859) :Location: Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn :Currently: residential ;Excelsior grounds (II) :Home of: Excelsior – am/pro independent (1859–1870) :Location:

Red Hook, Brooklyn Red Hook is a neighborhood in northwestern Brooklyn, New York City, New York, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. It is located on a peninsula projecting into the Upper New York Bay and is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway and the Car ...

– south end of Court Street, on the waterfront ( Gowanus Canal) :Currently: industrial ;

Union Grounds Union Grounds was a baseball park located in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. The grounds opened in 1862, its inaugural match being played on May 15. It was the first baseball park enclosed entirely by a fence, thereby allowing ...

:Home of: :: Eckford – independent am/pro (1862–1871), NA (1872) :: Mutual – independent am/pro (1868–1870), NA (1871-75), NL (1876) ::

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– NA (1873–1875) ::" Hartford of Brooklyn" – NL (1877) ::several single-game "home" games by other clu

:Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Brooklyn – Marcy Avenue (southwest, center field); Rutledge Street (northwest, right field); Harrison Avenue (northeast, home plate); Lynch Street (southeast, left field) :Currently: National Guard building, Juan Morel Campos Secondary School ;

Capitoline Grounds The Capitoline Grounds, also known as Capitoline Skating Lake and Base Ball Ground,Lowry, p. 34 was a baseball park located in Brooklyn, New York from 1864 to 1880. It was built to rival nearby Union Grounds, also in Brooklyn. The park hosted loc ...

:Home of: ::Atlantic – am/pro independent (1864 or 1865 – 1871), NA (1872) :: Excelsior – am/pro independent (1866–1871) ::

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– am independent (c. 1864–1866) :Location:

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, Brooklyn – Marcy Avenue (east); Halsey Street (south); Putnam Avenue (north); Nostrand Avenue (west) ::– less than 1.5 miles south of Union Grounds along Marcy :Currently: Residential ; Washington Park I :Home of: Brooklyn Atlantics/Bridegrooms/Trolley Dodgers – Inter-State League (1883), AA (1884–1889), NL (1890–1891 part) ::Also used as a neutral site for two games in the

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and one game in the

1888 World Series The 1888 World Series was an end-of-the-year professional baseball season championship playoff series between the National League champion New York Giants and the old American Association champion St. Louis Browns. The Giants won, 6 games to 4. ...

:Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn – 3rd Street (north, right field) and 5th Street (south, left field); 4th Avenue (west, center field) and 5th Avenue (east, home plate) :Currently: Residential, school, public park, and Gowanus House ;

Eastern Park Eastern Park was a baseball park in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York in the 1890s. It was bounded by Eastern Parkway—later renamed Pitkin Avenue when Eastern Parkway was diverted—to the north (home plate); the Long Isla ...

:Home of: ::

Brooklyn Ward's Wonders The Brooklyn Ward's Wonders were a baseball team who played in the Players' League in 1890. The team's nickname derived from its superstar shortstop, hall of famer John Montgomery Ward. The team finished with a 76–56 record, finishing in second p ...

– PL (1890) ::Brooklyn Dodgers (1891 part – 1897) :Location: Brownsville, Brooklyn – Eastern Parkway (segment later renamed Pitkin Avenue when Eastern was diverted) (north, home plate); Long Island Railroad and Vesta Avenue (later renamed Van Sinderen Street) (east, left field); Sutter Avenue (south, center field); Powell Street (west, right field) :Currently: Commercial / industrial ; Washington Park II :Home of: ::Brooklyn Dodgers/Superbas – NL (1898–1912) ::

Brooklyn Tip-Tops The Brooklyn Tip-Tops were a team in the short-lived Federal League of professional baseball from 1914 to 1915. The team's name came from Tip Top Bread, a product of Ward Baking Company, which was also owned by team owner Robert Ward. They were so ...

– FL (1914–1915) :Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn – diagonally across from the northwest corner of the previous Washington Park: 1st Street (north, right field) and 3rd Street (south, third base); 3rd Avenue (west, left field) and 4th Avenue (east, first base) :Currently:

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– part of ballpark wall still stands ;

Ebbets Field Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. It is mainly known for having been the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team of the National League (1913–1957). It was also home to five p ...

:Home of: Brooklyn Dodgers – NL (1913–1957) :Location: Brooklyn – formerly within Flatbush, now considered part of Crown Heights – 55 Sullivan Place –

Bedford Avenue Bedford Avenue is the longest street in Brooklyn, New York City, stretching and 132 blocks, from Manhattan Avenue (Brooklyn), Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Greenpoint south to Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Sheepshead Ba ...

(east, right field); Sullivan Place (south, first base); McKeever Place (originally Cedar Place) (west, third base); Montgomery Street (north, left field) :Currently:

Jackie Robinson Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line ...

Apartments ; Maimonides Park prev. Key Span Park, MCU Park :Home of:

Brooklyn Cyclones The Brooklyn Cyclones are a Minor League Baseball team of the South Atlantic League and the High-A affiliate of the New York Mets. They are based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, and play at Maimonides Park, just off the Coney Island Boar ...

– New York–Penn League (2001–present) :Location:

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site, Brooklyn – 1904 Surf Avenue – Surf Avenue (north, third base); Kensington Walk (east, left field); Boardwalk (south, right field); West 19th Street (west, first base)

Manhattan

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Polo Grounds The Polo Grounds was the name of three stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used mainly for professional baseball and American football from 1880 through 1963. The original Polo Grounds, opened in 1876 and demolished in 1889, was built fo ...

(I) :Home of: ::

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– independent (1880–1882), AA (1883–1885) ::

New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...

– NL (1883–1888) ::Also used as a neutral site for one game in the

:Location: 110th Street (south, first base for Mets, third base for Giants); Fifth Avenue (east, first base for Giants); Sixth Avenue (renamed

Lenox Avenue Lenox Avenue – also named Malcolm X Boulevard; both names are officially recognized – is the primary north–south route through Harlem in the upper portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. This two-way street runs from F ...

and since double-named as Malcolm X Boulevard) (west, third base for Mets); 112th Street (north, left field for Mets, right field for Giants) :Currently: Commercial and residential buildings, Harlem Academy ;

Metropolitan Park Metropolitan Park is a urban waterfront park and concert venue located on the north bank of the St. Johns River in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida. It is projected to be the eastern terminus of the northbank Jacksonville Riverwalk. Facility The ...

:Home of: Metropolitan – AA (1884 first part of season) :Location: Manhattan – 109th Street (north); Harlem River (east); 107th Street (south); First Avenue (west) :Currently: Residential, commercial, public school ;

Manhattan Field The Polo Grounds was the name of three stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used mainly for professional baseball and American football from 1880 through 1963. The original Polo Grounds, opened in 1876 and demolished in 1889, was built fo ...

aka Polo Grounds (II) :Home of: New York Giants (1889 part – 1890) :Location: 155th Street (south, third base); Eighth Avenue (east, first base) – next to site of Polo Grounds :Currently: Apartment buildings Polo Grounds after 1911

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(III) / (IV) orig. Brotherhood Park :Home of: ::

– PL (1890) ::New York Giants – NL (1891–1957) ::New York Yankees – AL (1913–1922) ::

New York Mets The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division. They are one of two major league ...

– NL (1962–1963) :Location: Harlem River Drive aka Speedway (west, home plate); site of Manhattan Field and 155th Street viaduct (south, right field); 8th Avenue (east, center field); rail yards and later public housing (north, left field) :Currently: Apartment buildings ;Olympia Field :Home of: local ball clubs (about 1901–1904) :Location: between 135th and 136th Streets, and

(a.k.a. Malcolm X Boulevard), based on contemporary newspaper articles :Currently: Harlem Hospital Center, fire station, elementary school, and Howard Bennett Playground ;Olympic Field :Home of: local ball clubs starting 1904;

Lincoln Giants The Lincoln Giants were a Negro league baseball team based in New York City from 1911 through 1930. Founding The Lincoln Giants can trace their origins back to the Nebraska Indians, of Lincoln, Nebraska, from the 1890s. According to Sol White ...

– independent (1911–1919) :Location: 136th Street, Fifth Avenue, and Madison Avenue, based on contemporary newspaper articles :Currently: medical buildings ; Dyckman Oval :Home of: ::

Cuban Stars (East) The Cuban Stars (East) were a team of professional baseball players from Cuba and other Latin American countries who competed in the Negro leagues in the eastern United States from 1916 to 1933. They generally were a traveling team that played onl ...

– independent 1916–1922 / Eastern Colored League 1923–1928 /

American Negro League The American Negro League (ANL) was one of several Negro leagues established during the period in the United States in which organized baseball was segregated. The ANL operated on the East Coast of the United States in 1929. History The Easter ...

1929 only / independent 1930–1933 ::also various neutral-site games by other

Negro league The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

clubs :Location: Inwood section of Manhattan. Roughly triangular block bounded by Nagle Avenue and elevated tracks (northwest, third base); 204th Street (northeast, left field); 10th Avenue (southeast, right field); and Academy Street (southwest, first base). Existed from about 1915 through 1937. :Currently: NYCHA apartment buildings and Monsignor Kett Playground. ; Hilltop Park formally American League Park :Home of: ::

New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Amer ...

– AL (1903–1912) ::New York Giants – NL (1911 part) :Location: Washington Heights, Manhattan – Broadway (southeast, right field); West 165th Street (southwest, first base); Fort Washington Avenue (west, third base); 168th Street (northeast, left field) :Currently: NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital and other medical buildings

Bronx

;Bronx Oval :Home of: New York Knickerbockers –

United States Baseball League The United States Baseball League was a short-lived hopeful third major-league that was established in New York City in 1912 and lasted only one partial season. History In March 1912, organizers of the proposed league – described by members of ...

(1912 only) ::Used for independent baseball and other sports as early as 1905, per local newspaper accounts. :Location: Bronx – 163rd Street and Southern Boulevard, as well as Hunt's Point Road :Currently: Commercial businesses ;Interborough Field (circa 1914-1950) :NYC Transit All Stars ::Used for transit league games, built just north of IRT railyards 240th st (first base) and west side of Broadway (right field). https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?VP3=DamView&VBID=24UP1GQ0XG7YW&SMLS=1&RW=1512&RH=784 ;Catholic Protectory Oval or Catholic Protectory Field :Home of:

– independent (1920–1922) / Eastern Colored League (1923–1928) /

(1929 only) :Location: part of the campus of the

New York Catholic Protectory A protectory was a Roman Catholic institution for the shelter and training of the young, designed to afford neglected or abandoned children shelter, food, raiment and the rudiments of an education in religion, morals, science and manual training o ...

, which was southeast of East Tremont Avenue and Unionport Road; the ballpark site is close to where Unionport intersects with Metropolitan Avenue :Currently: Parkchester ;

Yankee Stadium Yankee Stadium is a baseball stadium located in the Bronx, New York City. It is the home field of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, and New York City FC of Major League Soccer. Opened in April 2009, the stadium replaced the origi ...

(I) :Home of: New York Yankees – AL (1923–1973, 1976–2008) :Location: Bronx – East 161st Street (north, left field); River Avenue (east, right field); 157th Street (south, first base);

Macombs Dam Park Macombs Dam Park ( ) is a park in the Concourse section of the Bronx, New York City. The park lay in the shadow of the old Yankee Stadium when it stood, between Jerome Avenue and the Major Deegan Expressway, near the Harlem River and the Macomb ...

(west, third base) :Currently:

, Heritage Field ;

(II) :Home of: New York Yankees – AL (2009–present) :Location: Bronx – across the street to the north from the old Yankee Stadium – East 161st Street (south, first base); River Avenue (east, right field); Macombs Dam Bridge / Jerome Avenue (west, third base); East 164th Street (north, left field)

Queens

; Fashion Race Course originally National Race Course :Home of: Operated as a horse race track 1853 to about 1869. Site of an intra-city all-star game series in 1858 on July 20, August 17 and September 10; notable as first admission charges for baseball. :Location: gate at what is now 37th Avenue and 103rd Street in Corona, Queens, New York, about a mile west-southwest of Citi Field. :Currently: commercial / residential ; Grauer’s Ridgewood Park :Home of: Brooklyn Bridegrooms/Trolley Dodgers AA (1886 Sundays only) :Location: part of a large park bounded by Myrtle Avenue (north); Seneca Avenue (northeast); Decatur Street (southeast); Cypress Avenue (southwest) :Currently: commercial / residential ; Wallace’s Ridgewood Park :Home of: ::Brooklyn Bridegrooms/Trolley Dodgers AA (1887–1889 Sundays only) ::

Brooklyn Gladiators The Brooklyn Gladiators were a Major League Baseball team in the American Association during the 1890 season. They were last in the league with a 26–73 record when the franchise folded on August 27, 1890. History The Gladiators were managed by ...

AA (1890) :Location: Long Island Railroad tracks & Wyckoff Avenue (northeast, right field); Covert Street (southeast, first base); Irving Avenue (southwest, third base); Halsey Street (northwest, left field) – a few blocks south of Grauer's Ridgewood Park :Currently: commercial ;Long Island Grounds :Home of: Brooklyn Gladiators AA (1890 – 2 Sunday games) :Location: (

Maspeth, New York Maspeth is a residential and commercial community in the borough of Queens in New York City. It was founded in the early 17th century by Dutch and English settlers. Neighborhoods sharing borders with Maspeth are Woodside to the north; Sunnyside ...

) Grand Avenue (south); 57th Street (east) :Currently: industrial ; Meyerrose Park :Home of: Brooklyn – Atlantic League (1907) / Union League (1908) :Location: Cornelia Street & Woodward Avenue :Currently: commercial ; Dexter Park :Home of:

Brooklyn Royal Giants The Brooklyn Royal Giants were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Brooklyn, New York. Formed in 1905 by John Wilson Connor (1875–1926), owner of the Brooklyn Royal Cafe, the team initially played against white semi-pro teams. ...

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Negro leagues The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

(1920s–1930s) :Location: Woodhaven, Queens – Jamaica Avenue (south); Eldert Lane T's into Jamaica from the south :Currently: residential ; Shea Stadium :Home of: ::New York Mets – NL (1964–2008) ::New York Yankees – AL (1974-75) :Location:

Flushing, Queens Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City. Downtown Flushing is a major commercial and retail area, and the ...

– 123-01 Roosevelt Avenue – 126th Street (northeast, right field); Roosevelt Avenue (southeast, first base); Shea Road (southwest/northwest, third base/left field) :Currently: Parking lot for Citi Field ;The Ballpark at St. John's now known as Jack Kaiser Stadium :Home of:

– New York–Penn League (2000) :Location:

Jamaica, Queens Jamaica is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is mainly composed of a large commercial and retail area, though part of the neighborhood is also residential. Jamaica is bordered by Hollis to the east; St. Albans, Springfi ...

– St. John's University campus – Utopia Parkway (east, outfield); 175th Street (west/south, home plate/first base);

Belson Stadium Belson Stadium is a 2,168-seat soccer-specific stadium located at Utopia Parkway and Union Turnpike in Queens, New York City, on the campus of St. John's University. It is the home of the St. John's Red Storm men's and women's soccer teams. Th ...

soccer field and Union Turnpike (northwest, third base) ; Citi Field :Home of: New York Mets – NL (2009–present) :Location: Flushing, Queens – just east of Shea Stadium site – Seaver Way (northeast, right field); Roosevelt Avenue (southeast, first base); Shea Road (southwest/northwest, third base/left field)

Staten Island

; St. George Grounds :Home of: ::Metropolitan – AA (1886–1887) ::New York Giants – NL (1889) partial season :Location: St. George, Staten Island, Staten Island :Currently: Near site of

Richmond County Bank Ballpark The Staten Island University Hospital, Community Park (SIUH Community Park) is a baseball stadium located on the north-eastern tip of Staten Island. The ballpark is the home of the Staten Island FerryHawks, a member of the Atlantic League of P ...

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:Home of: Staten Island Yankees – New York–Penn League (2001–2020),

Staten Island FerryHawks The Staten Island FerryHawks are an American minor-league professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Staten Island. They are a member of the North Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, a "partner leag ...

– Atlantic League (2021–present) :Location: St. George, Staten Island – Richmond Terrace (southwest, home plate/third base); Bank Street (southeast/northeast, first base/right field); Upper New York Bay, beyond Bank Street

References

*Peter Filichia, ''Professional Baseball Franchises'', Facts on File, 1993. * * *''Baseball Memories'', by Marc Okkonen, Sterling Publishing, 1992.

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