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Baseball parks in Cincinnati

;Union Cricket Club grounds (I) :Site of first baseball game in Cincinnati, on July 23, 185

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Walnut Hills, Cincinnati Walnut Hills is a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. One of the city’s oldest hilltop neighborhoods, it is a large diverse area on the near east side of Cincinnati. Eden Park is the gateway to Walnut Hills when driving north fro ...

- Madison Pike (now Madison Road) (south); Hackberry Street (east); Woodburn Avenue (west) ;Union Cricket Club grounds (II) :Home of Cincinnati baseball club prior to mid-season 1867 :Location: "foot of Richmond Stree

; Lincoln Park Grounds, Union Cricket Club Grounds (III) a.k.a. Union Grounds or Union Park :Home of:

Cincinnati Red Stockings The Cincinnati Red Stockings of were baseball's first all-professional team, with ten salaried players. The Cincinnati Base Ball Club formed in 1866 and fielded competitive teams in the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) 1867� ...

independent professional (1869-1870) - first opened for baseball on July 4, 18

:Location: just west of Lincoln Park; Lincoln Park bounded by Kenner Street (north), Freeman Avenue (now Western Avenue) (east), Hopkins Street (south) and Garrard Street / Lincoln Place / President Place (west) :Currently:

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal The Cincinnati Museum Center is a museum complex operating out of the Cincinnati Union Terminal in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. It houses museums, theater, a library, and a symphonic pipe organ, as well as special traveling ...

; Avenue Grounds :Home of: Cincinnati Reds -

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 ...

(1876-1879) :Location: about two short blocks west of Spring Grove Avenue, bounded on the south by Alabama Avenue, on the west by Mill Creek, on the north by the imaginary line extending from Monmouth Street, and on the immediate east by the

Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad The Marietta and Cincinnati (M&C) was one of five important east-west railroads of southern Ohio; it was later absorbed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O). Its original route ran from Marietta through Vincent, Athens, Hamden, Chillicothe, ...

tracks :Currently: rail yards ;

Bank Street Grounds The Bank Street Grounds is a former baseball park located in Cincinnati. The park was home to three major league baseball teams. The National League Cincinnati Stars club in 1880, the current Cincinnati Reds franchise from 1882 to 1883 and the Cin ...

:Home of: :: Cincinnati Reds - NL (1880) :: Cincinnati Reds -

American Association American Association may refer to: Baseball * American Association (1882–1891), a major league active from 1882 to 1891 * American Association (1902–1997), a minor league active from 1902 to 1962 and 1969 to 1997 * American Association of Profe ...

(1882-1883) ::

Cincinnati Outlaw Reds The Cincinnati Outlaw Reds of 1884, also called the Cincinnati Unions, were a member of the short-lived Union Association. One of the league's best teams, they finished third with a record of 69-36. The team was owned by former Cincinnati Stars a ...

- Union Association (1884) :Location: Bank Street (south, third base); McLean Avenue / Spring Grove Avenue (southeast, home plate); Duck Street (southwest, left field); McDermott Street (northwest, center and right fields); houses and Western Avenue (northeast, first base) :Currently: SORTA and CSX Transportation ; Crosley Field prev. Redland Field,

Palace of the Fans Palace of the Fans was a Major League baseball park located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was the home of the Cincinnati Reds from 1902 through 1911. The ballpark was on an asymmetrical block bounded by Findlay Street (south), Western Avenue (northeas ...

, League Park :Home of: :: Cincinnati Reds -

(1884-1889) /

(1890-1970-mid) :: Cincinnati Cubans / Cuban Stars Negro National League (1921) :: Cincinnati Tigers

Negro American League The Negro American League was one of the several Negro leagues created during the time organized American baseball was segregated. The league was established in 1937, and disbanded after its 1962 season. Negro American League franchises :''Ann ...

(1937) :: Cincinnati Buckeyes/Clowns

(1942-1945) ::Also used as a neutral site for two games in the

1885 World Series The 1885 World Series (the "World's Championship") was an end-of-the-year playoff series between the National League champion Chicago White Stockings and American Association champion St. Louis Browns. The Series was played in four cities (Chica ...

:Location: Findlay Street (south); Western Avenue (northeast, angling); York Street (north); McLean Avenue (west) :Currently: industrial park ;

East End Park East End Park, currently named KDM Group East End Park for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium situated in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland with a seating capacity of . The stadium plays host to the home matches of Scottish Championship ...

or Pendleton park :Home of: Kelly's Killers -

(1891 part season) :Location: Humbert Street (southwest, right field); Babb (or Babby) Alley (northeast, some distance beyond third base); Watson Street (southeast, left field); Ridgeley Street (northwest, first base) :Currently: C.L. Harrison Field and Paul Kramer Field in the Schmidt Recreation Complex ; Hippodrome Park :Home of: Cincinnati Pippins - United States Baseball League (1912) :Location: Spring Grove Avenue (east); Queen City Avenue (south) er city directory:Currently: industrial ; Federal Park (Covington, Kentucky) :Home of:

Covington Blue Sox The Covington Blue Sox were a Federal League baseball club in Covington, Kentucky, in 1913. The team was also referred to as the Covington Colonels or Covington Federals in contemporary newspaper reports. The team was moved to Kansas City in Jul ...

Federal League The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, known simply as the Federal League, was an American professional baseball league that played its first season as a minor league in 1913 and operated as a "third major league", in competition with the e ...

(1913 part season) :Location: southwest corner of East 2nd Street and Scott Boulevard - one block south of Ohio River bank, one block west of Roebling Bridge :Currently: parking lot ;

Riverfront Stadium Riverfront Stadium, also known as Cinergy Field from 1996 to 2002, was a multi-purpose stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States that was the home of the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball from 1970 Major League Baseball season, 1970 throug ...

a.k.a. Cinergy Field :Home of: Cincinnati Reds - NL (1970-mid - 2002) :Location: 201 East Pete Rose Way :Currently: The Banks mixed-use project ;

Great American Ball Park Great American Ball Park is a baseball stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. It served as the home stadium of the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB), and opened on March 31, 2003, replacing Cinergy Field (formerly Riverfront Stadium), the Reds ...

:Home of: Cincinnati Reds - NL (2003-present) :Location: 100 Joe Nuxhall Way

References

*Peter Filichia, ''Professional Baseball Franchises'', Facts on File, 1993. * *{{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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SCSR1888 map showing Avenue GroundsEarly Cincinnati baseball
Baseball venues in Ohio

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

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 t ...

Baseball parks

Baseball parks in Cincinnati

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