This is a list of venues used for professional and some amateur

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Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...

. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed. Messer Street Grounds, 1879

;Adelaide Park (I) :Home of: National Association neutral site in 1875, for games involving New Haven, Boston, Hartford and Brooklyn :Location: Broad, Hamilton and Sackett Streets; Adelaide and Elmwood Avenues :Currently: residential ;name of ballpark unknown :Home of: Providence -

League Alliance The League Alliance was the first semi-affiliated minor league baseball league. Proposed by Al Spalding on January 15, 1877. Independent baseball teams were to affiliate with National League teams, which would honor their respective contracts. The ...

(1877) ; Messer Park :Home of: Providence Grays

National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team s ...

(1878-1885) / Eastern League (1886 partial) :Location: Messer Street (east, third base and left field), Willow Street (north, home plate); Wood Street (south, center field); Ropes (now Ellery) Street (west, first base and right field). Some sources name Hudson Street as the north boundary; others say High (now Westminster) Street, or "near" High Street. Photographic evidence indicates Willow. :Currently: residential ;Adelaide Park (II) :Home of: ::Providence Grays -

Eastern Association The Eastern Association of counties was an administrative organisation set up by Parliament in the early years of the First English Civil War. Its main function was to finance and support an army which became a mainstay of the Parliamentarian mi ...

(1891 disbanded during season) ::Providence Grays / Clamdiggers - Eastern League (1892-1903) :Location: west of Broad Street, part of the former Park Garden, a large park bounded by what are now Broad, Sumter, Niagara and Sackett Streets. (Overlaps the first Adelaide Park block.) :Currently: residential ;Melrose Park :Providence Grays - Eastern League (1904-1911) /

International League The International League (IL) is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in the United States. Along with the Pacific Coast League, it is one of two leagues playing at the Triple-A level, which is one grade below Major League Baseball ...

(1912-1917) Eastern League (1918 - mid-1925 disbanded) :Location: Longfellow Street (north, third base); Melrose Street (east, left field); railroad tracks and Roger Williams Avenue (south, right field); buildings and Elmwood Avenue (west, first base) er linked map:Currently: housing and DMV road test area ;Weston Field :Home of: Providence Grays - Eastern League (1918-?) :Location: Cranston, Rhode Island - otherwise unknown ;

Kinsley Park Kinsley Park was an athletic field, used for professional football, minor league baseball and pro soccer, located in Providence, Rhode Island at the corner of Kinsley Avenue (north, third base) and Acorn Street (west, first base), across Acorn from ...

:Home of: ::Providence Grays IL (mid-1925 to end of season) moved from and to

Newark Bears The Newark Bears were an American minor league professional baseball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They were a member of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball and, later, the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball. T ...

::Providence

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/ Grays - Eastern League (1926 - mid-1930 disbanded :Location: Kinsley Avenue (north, third base); Acorn Street (west, first base) - opposite Nicholson File Company (a tool maker) :Currently: industrial ;

Cranston Stadium Cranston Stebbins Stadium is a multi-use stadium complex located in Cranston, Rhode Island. It consists of Magciacomo Field, a baseball field, as well as Stebbins Field, an athletic field suitable for playing football, soccer, field hockey or la ...

:Home of: ::

Providence Chiefs The Providence Chiefs, sometimes known as the Cranston Chiefs, were a Rhode Island-based minor league baseball team in the Class B New England League. During 1946 and 1947, the club was known as the Chiefs, and its team logo was a fire chief. In ...

/ Grays -

New England League The New England League was a mid-level league in American minor league baseball that played intermittently in five of the six New England states (Vermont excepted) between 1886 and 1949. After 1901, it existed in the shadow of two Major League B ...

(1946- mid-1949 - league disbanded) ::

Rhode Island Gulls The Rhode Island Gulls were a team in the United States Basketball League (USBL) based in Warwick, Rhode Island during the 1985 and 1987 seasons. They had many notable former players such as Manute Bol, Spud Webb, John "Hot Rod" Williams, Muggsy ...

- NECBL (1999-2000) :Location:

Cranston, Rhode Island Cranston, once known as Pawtuxet, is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island. The official population of the city in the 2020 United States Census was 82,934, making it the second largest in the state. The center of population of Rhode Island i ...

- Cranston Stadium complex - Peerless Street (northwest, left and center fields); Crescent Avenue (northeast, center and right fields); Midwood Street (east, right field and first base); football stadium (southwest, home plate and third base). Flint Avenue (south) and Jordan Avenue (southwest) border the football stadium.

References

* * *{{cite book, last=Lowry, first=Philip J., title=Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of All 271 Major League and Negro League Ballparks Past and Present, year=1992, publisher=Addison-Wesley, location=Reading, Mass., isbn=0-201-56777-6, url-access=registration, url=https://archive.org/details/greencathedralsu0000lowr

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1918 map showing Melrose Park.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/maps/1918prov/1918Providence15-2a.jpg 1918 map showing Melrose Park, oriented true north
Baseball venues in Rhode Island

baseball parks A ballpark, or baseball park, is a type of sports venue where baseball is played. The playing field is divided into the infield, an area whose dimensions are rigidly defined, and the outfield, where dimensions can vary widely from place to pla ...

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 ...

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