
Four Mile Run Park (Alexandria, VA)
Entrance to Four Mile Run Park in Arlington, Virginia, in the…

SkyDome (Toronto)
The term “nova” is a good metaphor for describing the story…

McDonough Park (Geneva, NY)
Pete Rose started there. Bernice Gera, professional baseball’s…

Maple Leaf Stadium (Toronto)
Maple Leaf Stadium, circa 1929. (City of Toronto Archives)
Toronto…

Montgomery Field (Carlsbad, NM)
Pitcher Gordon Zabasky winds up on the mound at Montgomery…

Jefferson Street Grounds (Philadelphia)
The Jefferson Street Neighborhood in 1860. From 24th Street…

St. George Grounds (Staten Island, NY)
St. George Grounds began as a paradise, created alongside the…

Scranton-Dunmore Stadium (Dunmore, PA)
Fourteen seasons. That’s all it took for Scranton-Dunmore…

Wahconah Park (Pittsfield, MA)
Wahconah Park: an outdated barn or a precious relic? A swamp…

Schorling Park (Chicago)
South Side Park, later known as Schorling Park, located on…

Eastern Park (Brooklyn, NY)
Erected in 1890 to furnish a home field for Brooklyn’s…

Federal League Park (Indianapolis, IN)
Federal League Park in Indianapolis, looking in from the right-field…


The Ballpark (Old Orchard Beach, ME)
Before there was The Ballpark at Arlington, The Ballpark at Jackson,…

Johnson Field (Johnson City, NY)
The Southern Tier Expressway does not lend itself to reflection…

Ridgewood Park (New York)
For three consecutive seasons in the late 1880s, the Brooklyn…

Silver Stadium (Rochester, NY)
For close to 70 years, the rich baseball history of Rochester,…

Ruppert Stadium (Kansas City)
Ruppert Stadium was the home of the Kansas City Monarchs…

Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
If “What’s past is prologue,” as Shakespeare wrote,1 Ruppert…

Pelican Stadium (New Orleans)
New Orleans’ first professional baseball team was the Pelicans,…

Roosevelt Stadium (Jersey City, NJ)
Jersey City, squeezed between Newark Bay and the Hudson River,…

Wiedenmayer’s Park (Newark, NJ)
On July 17, 1904, future Hall of Famer Clark Griffith pitched…

Harrison Park (Harrison, NJ)
Barely more than one square mile in size and with about 15,000…

Kauffman Stadium (Kansas City, MO)
On April 12, 1955, the former Philadelphia Athletics, having…