List of baseball parks in Denver
This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Denver, Colorado. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed.
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Larimer Street Baseball Park [edit]
Occupants [edit]
- Denver - Colorado League or Rocky Mountain League (1885)* Denver Mountain Lions - Western League (1886)
Location [edit]
Larimer Street (southeast); 32nd Street (southwest); Market Street (Walnut Street) (northwest); 33rd Street (northeast). About 10 blocks northeast of the eventual site of Coors Field
Currently [edit]
Commercial/industrial
River Front Park [edit]
Occupant [edit]
Denver Mountaineers - Western League / Western Association (1887-1888)
Location [edit]
Plot of land roughly bounded by 16th Street (southwest); 17th Street (northeast); Bassett Street (southeast); and the Platte River (northwest). Part of what is now Commons Park
Athletic Park [edit]
Occupants [edit]
- Denver Grizzlies/Mountaineers - Western Association (1889-1891 or 1892)
- Denver Solis - Colorado State League (1889 only)
- Denver Grizzlies - Western Association (1895 part season)
- Denver Gulfs - Colorado State League (1898 only)
- Denver Grizzlies/Bears - Western League (1900-1917)
Location [edit]
Broadway and Cherry Creek (which Broadway crosses at about East 7th Avenue). Location is near Denver Health Medical Center
Merchants Park [edit]
Occupants [edit]
- Denver Bears - Western League (1922-1932)
- Denver Bears - Western League(1941 only)
- Denver - Western League (1947 - mid-1948)
Location [edit]
Virginia Avenue (south); Bannock Street (west); Dakota Avenue (north); Broadway (east). Near Alameda Avenue (two blocks farther north); location also given as Exposition Avenue (two blocks south) and Broadway
Current use [edit]
Site of Broadway Plaza shopping center and business complex
Mile High Stadium [edit]
Originally Bears Stadium
Occupants [edit]
- Denver Bears - Western League (mid-1948 - 1954)
- Denver Bears/Zephyrs - American Association (1955-1962) / Pacific Coast League (1963-1968) / AA (1969-1992)
- Colorado Rockies - National League (1993 - mid-1994 [season shortened by players strike])
Location [edit]
2755 West 17th Avenue (south, right field); Elliot Street (west, first base); West 20th Street (north, third base); Clay Street (east, left field - now part of Mile High Stadium Circle)
Previously [edit]
City dump
Currently [edit]
Parking lot for Sports Authority Field, which overlaps the old site in the southwest (center field) portion
Coors Field [edit]
Occupant [edit]
Colorado Rockies - NL (1995-present)
Location [edit]
2001 Blake Street (southeast, first base); 20th Street (southwest, third base); railroad tracks, then Wewatta Street (northwest, left field); 22nd Street (northeast, right field)
Previously [edit]
Denver Pacific Railroad Station and Union Pacific Railroad buildings
See also [edit]
Sources [edit]
- Ballparks of North America, Michael Benson, McFarland, 1989.
External links [edit]
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