Oakdale Park is a former baseball park located in

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. The field was home to the Philadelphia Athletics

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team in the first season of the

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, 1882. The site of the park had been used for amateur baseball since the

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. It was used from 1877 to 1881 by the

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. The 1882 Athletics played at the park, bounded by Huntingdon Street (north), 11th Street (east), Cumberland Street (south), and 12th Street (west) in the

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neighborhood. The Athletics played 39 regular-season games at the park, compiling a 21–18 record. The franchise relocated to Jefferson Street Grounds in 1883. Oakdale Park was sold shortly thereafter and torn down. Philadelphia Ball Park would be built a couple of blocks west of this site, five years later.

References

External links

Map of Oakdale Park
(c. 1875)

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