Vintage Stadium Archive...Long Gone Or Forgotten

[Mario Mendoza...HOF Lock]

Here are a collection of old school ballparks from different cities, most that are no longer standing. Most are large pics, which can be viewed in full by clicking on the link. Feel free to add any pics of old parks you have. The more obscure the stadium, and the larger the pic, the better (so as to get a good feel of the long gone parks). 56K warning!! High speed internet recommended:)

Maybe Bill Burgess, BSmile etc can cross post some of their vintage stadium pics from the History of the game thread here. There are some good ones over there.


West Side Park Chicago
1907
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1908
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1908
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1904
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1904 South Side Park
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1903 Opening Day At Old Polo Grounds
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1901 Fire At Robison Field St Louis
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1910 Hilltop Park New York
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1904 Yale Vs Princeton
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[Sean O]

Neato, cool pics. I especially dig the people up to (and over) the foul line at South Side Park.

I also didn't think warning tracks were standard on parks until well after 1904, so what's up with that yale/princeton pic?

[Mario Mendoza...HOF Lock]

Brooklyn National Grounds (Ebbets)
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Bennett Park Detroit

1907
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1909
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Griffith Stadium Washington DC

1933 World Series
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1924 World Series
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1923 Opening Day Crowd
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1913 Polo Grounds NY
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1910 League Park Cleveland
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Miscell Shots From League Park
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[JeepingBaseball]

the fans, the players, the workers, everyone... were so classy back then. Compare to today.

Great pics!!

[YankeeFanBx]

Opening Day 1923 photo, I didn't realize Black people could sit in the same sections as White people, I thought segregation would have had a section just for African Amer.

[banko]

Opening Day 1923 photo, I didn't realize Black people could sit in the same sections as White people, I thought segregation would have had a section just for African Amer.

I was just-about to say the same thing.

But, you 'beat me to it'.

What GREAT pics have been posted just in the past 24 hours.

My deepest thx to the assiduous posters.

[Yoda]

How did you find these pictures? Did you just search on flickr?

They are amazing and thank you

[Mario Mendoza...HOF Lock]

How did you find these pictures? Did you just search on flickr?

They are amazing and thank you

Glad you enjoyed them. Many I had on an old disk I got from a friend. Some were acquired online over the years (some of those using trial & error tricks to cull the full size image when only the thumbnail is shown).

Here are a few more.

Brooklyn's Washington Park, where the Brooklyn Superbas, Trolley Dodgers, and later the Dodgers played up until 1912. They moved into Ebbets in 1913.

With street construction, 1910 (stadium at distant left)
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Closeup of above
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Map with location of Washington Park
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Mid 20's view prior to it's demolition
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Part of this park still exists (or did up until recently). Read this (with 2 pics)... Washington Park-Forgotten Brooklyn (http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Dodgers/dodgers.html)

More of West Side Park Chicago
1907
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Cubs Raising Pennant 1907
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Cubs vs White Sox South Side Park 1909
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Cubs vs Giants First Year At Wrigley
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Dugdale Park Seattle
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[JeepingBaseball]

these pictures are just incredible!

[metfan13]

I was just-about to say the same thing.

But, you 'beat me to it'.

What GREAT pics have been posted just in the past 24 hours.

My deepest thx to the assiduous posters.

The ballpark was in a northern city.

[Mario Mendoza...HOF Lock]

Thank God for downtime at work; perfect time to post baseball pictures (don't tell my boss).

Exhibition Stadium Pittsburgh 1915

Used by the Pittsburgh Rebels of the Federal League 1913-15, and torn down soon after.
Renovations after Pirates moved into Forbes included removing huge turrets behind grandstand.
Near wear PNC stands today.

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1904 (with turrets)
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Forbes Field set up for a 1915 football game.
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Griffith Stadium Washington, all from 1933 WS
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I assume that's FDR arriving
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Municipal league game at Brookside Stadium in Cleveland. Not much of a stadium, considering "seats" consisted of sitting on a hill. Legend has it that 150,000 saw a game there.
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First Game at Ewing Field San Francisco.
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This has been posted in the Polo Grounds thread but it's worth a hi-res repeat
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OK, back to work...

[bleacherbum73]

[/IMG]

Municipal league game at Brookside Stadium in Cleveland. Not much of a stadium, considering "seats" consisted of sitting on a hill. Legend has it that 150,000 saw a game there.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2531473100_de6f411cbc_o.jpg

Wow !! Silly question, but I can't help but wonder what kind of bathroom facilities did they have for a place like that back then. Now you would have hundreds of porto potties, equal number for man and women, handwashing stations, etc. :shrug:

[Philtration]

Incredible!
They are all great and I have never seen pics of Ebbets Field from that angle. The one of Griffith Stadium is very cool and it is so clear.
Thanks for posting these.

[LetsGoMets687]

Opening Day 1923 photo, I didn't realize Black people could sit in the same sections as White people, I thought segregation would have had a section just for African Amer.

The South was segregated, not northern cities.

[stlfan]

This has been posted in the Polo Grounds thread but it's worth a hi-res repeat
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OK, back to work...

My god. talk about crappy obstructed seating. Look at the fans at the lower left of the photo.

[bleacherbum73]

My god. talk about crappy obstructed seating. Look at the fans at the lower left of the photo.

That's the all inclusive party box.:laugh I think you got all the cigars and whiskey that you wanted for a hefty fee. I think it was $1.75 a person. Notice the valet service for your carriage ! :D

[YankeeFanBx]

The South was segregated, not northern cities.
Very true.

[YankeeFanBx]

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Municipal league game at Brookside Stadium in Cleveland. Not much of a stadium, considering "seats" consisted of sitting on a hill. Legend has it that 150,000 saw a game there.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2531473100_de6f411cbc_o.jpg

Wow !! Silly question, but I can't help but wonder what kind of bathroom facilities did they have for a place like that back then. Now you would have hundreds of porto potties, equal number for man and women, handwashing stations, etc. :shrug:
This the damnedest baseball park I've ever seen!:clapping

[Mario Mendoza...HOF Lock]

Exposition Park 1905

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3 Pics of Cincinnati's Palace Of The Fans

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Protest At Detroit's Navin Field (later Briggs/Tiger Stadium)

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Exterior of Kansas City's Muehlebach Field
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Manhattan Field (adjacent to the Polo Grounds)

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Ketchikan Alaska Ballpark 1904

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Another 2 from Hilltop Park 1912

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[alpineinc]

MM does it again! Great thread idea, stupendous photos! The Alaskan one is great. And Brooklyn's Washington Park - the guy taking notes, or writing a check? Pretty interesting.

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[EdTarbusz]

Opening Day 1923 photo, I didn't realize Black people could sit in the same sections as White people, I thought segregation would have had a section just for African Amer.

I believe that Sportsmans Park and Griffith Stadium were the only Major League parks that had segregated seating.

[EdTarbusz]

Neato, cool pics. I especially dig the people up to (and over) the foul line at South Side Park.

I also didn't think warning tracks were standard on parks until well after 1904, so what's up with that yale/princeton pic?

It may have been a bicycle track. Or maybe a running track.

[EdTarbusz]

Municipal league game at Brookside Stadium in Cleveland. Not much of a stadium, considering "seats" consisted of sitting on a hill. Legend has it that 150,000 saw a game there.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2531473100_de6f411cbc_o.jpg

...

Whoever called this place Brookside Stadium had an overactive imagination. This is Brookside Park, which as the photo shows is a natural ampitheater.

[RuthMayBond]

This the damnedest baseball park I've ever seen!:clappingYeah but it was only partly full then :eek:

[Pelt]

This was a kinda interesting story that I stumbled upon in this site - http://www.maryscityofdavid.org/html/baseball.html

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[Mario Mendoza...HOF Lock]

This was a kinda interesting story that I stumbled upon in this site - http://www.maryscityofdavid.org/html/baseball.html

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The House of David team looked more like an early 70's rock band.

[Mario Mendoza...HOF Lock]

A few of these are from Sulphurdell.com (http://www.sulphurdell.com/). Great pictures.

Sulphur Dell I Nashville 1908
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Sulphur Dell II Construction 1927
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Just completed 1927
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2 more of Sulphur Dell
Notice the upslope at the wall
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1950's game
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Sicks Stadium Seattle
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Red Wing Stadium Rochester NY
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Exterior of Red Wing around 1960.
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Columbia Park Philadelphia
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[Frank Wagner]

I don't think that's Wrigley - note the (small) upper deck. I believe Wrigley had only one level untill c. 1927. On the other hand, there are so few pre-1927 pictures of the Friendly Confines.

[alpineinc]

I don't think that's Wrigley - note the (small) upper deck. I believe Wrigley had only one level untill c. 1927. On the other hand, there are so few pre-1927 pictures of the Friendly Confines.

You're right - picture has "1908" etched in corner - that's West Side Grounds (West Side Park) -

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Edit: Here's Wrigley (Weeghman Park), Opening Day, 1914 (Federal League):

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[YankeeFanBx]

I believe that Sportsmans Park and Griffith Stadium were the only Major League parks that had segregated seating.
Thank you for enlightenment!

[Lpeters199]

This park's memory has been neglected, even by ballpark fans, likely due to poor Washington teams and too few good pictures. If you take a moment to type in Griffith Stadium in the search box at Getty Images, you'll find some excellent color pictures of that great, quirky old park.

http://www.gettyimages.com/Home.aspx

[beisbolfiebre]

http://www.startribune.com/sports/11715326.html

Miles was a buddy of mine who moved away from the Twin Cities just a couple of years ago. He always kept in great shape. When we last met, I tapped him on the shoulder when saying hello and shaking hands. You can't believe how solid his shoulder was - it was like touching a brick wall!

Like me, Miles is one heck of an old school baseball fan + he loves those Miesville Mudhens.

[beisbolfiebre]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/EasternPark.JPG


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Park

http://www.luckyshow.org/football/ep.htm


Those of you from Brooklyn know the East New York section to be the worse ghetto in NYC. But at one time it was home to what may be called the Mecca of USA sports for its Big League baseball, college and high school football.

By the way, ENY was also home to the cricket National champion in the 1890s. Sorry, I tried but could not get a proper link from the Brooklyn Eagle archives for any old articles on that subject.

[Mario Mendoza...HOF Lock]

Wausau WI Ballfield 1912
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Gilmore Stadium Hollywood CA
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