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Pelican Park was a
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from 1908 to 1914. The ballpark was bound by South Carrollton Avenue, Palmyra Street, Banks Street and Scott Street. A contest was conducted to name the new ballpark. "Pelican Park" won out over scores of other entries. When Pelican Park was demolished in 1914, the park's wooden grandstand was disassembled and relocated several blocks down Carrollton Avenue by
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s to the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Tulane Avenue. It reopened on April 13, 1915, as
Pelican Stadium Pelican Stadium, originally known as Heinemann Park (1915–1937), was a sports stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1915 to 1957. Heinemann Park namesake Alexander Julius (A.J.) Heinemann was an officer and shareholder in the New Orleans Peli ...
. It was home to the
New Orleans Pelicans The New Orleans Pelicans are an American professional basketball team based in New Orleans. The Pelicans compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Southwest Division and play their hom ...
baseball organization from 1908 to 1914.


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New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) The New Orleans Pelicans or "Pels" were a minor league professional baseball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. History Founded in 1865 as an amateur social/sporting organization, the Pelicans became a professional franchise when they joined ...
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Sports in New Orleans New Orleans is home to a wide variety of sporting events. Most notable are the home games of the New Orleans Saints (National Football League, NFL) and the New Orleans Pelicans (National Basketball Association, NBA), the annual Sugar Bowl, the ann ...


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Sanborn map showing Pelican Park, 1908


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