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This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in New Orleans, Louisiana. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed.

Heinemann Park in 1934
Crescent City Base Ball Park or Sportsman's Park
Occupants:
New Orleans Pelicans – Southern League (1887–mid-1888) league disbanded – club transferred to Texas League mid-1888 – it also failed
New Orleans Pelicans – Southern League (1889) disbanded after season
New Orleans Pelicans – Southern League (1892–1896) disbanded after season
New Orleans Pelicans – Southern League (1898–1899) disbanded after 1899
Location: New Basin Canal (now covered by Pontchartrain Expressway aka Interstate-10); across from Greenwood Cemetery; Metairie Road / City Park Avenue. Contemporary city directories give the location as "New Basin Canal and South Metairie Rd"
Athletic Park
Occupant: New Orleans Pelicans – Southern Association (1901–1907)
Location: South Carrollton Avenue (northwest); Tulane Avenue (northeast); South Pierce Street (southeast); New Basin Canal (southwest) - same site as Pelican Stadium
Pelican Park
Occupants:
New Orleans Pelicans – Southern Association (1908–1914)
New Orleans Little Pels - Cotton States League (1912) moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi after a few weeks
Location: South Carrollton Avenue (northwest); Palmyra Street (northeast); Pierce Street (southeast); Banks Street (southwest)
Currently: commercial businesses
Pelican Stadium originally Heinemann Park (1915–1937)
Occupants:
New Orleans Pelicans – Southern Association (1915–1957)
New Orleans Ads aka New Orleans Black Pelicans – Negro Southern League (1920)
New Orleans–St. Louis Stars – Negro American League (1941) – half their home games (other half in St. Louis)
New Orleans Creoles – late 1940s
Location: South Carrollton Avenue (northwest, home plate); Tulane Avenue (northeast, third base / left field); Gravier Street, railroad tracks, canal (southwest, first base / right field); Pierce Street (southeast, center field).
Currently: commercial / retail
City Park Stadium later renamed Tad Gormley Stadium
Occupant: New Orleans Pelicans – Southern Association (1958–1959) – disbanded after 1959 season
Location: New Orleans City Park – 5400 Stadium Drive (south); Marconi Drive (west); Roosevelt Mall Street (north and east)
Louisiana Superdome – later renamed Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Occupant: New Orleans Pelicans – American Association (1977) – moved from Tulsa Oilers of 1932–1942 and 1946–1976 – disbanded after 1977 season
Location: 1500 Sugar Bowl Drive and Poydras Street (northeast); Lasalle Street (southeast); Stadium Drive and Howard Avenue (southwest); Stadium Drive and US-90 (northwest)

See also

References

  • Filichia, Peter (1993). Professional baseball franchises : from the Abbeville Athletics to the Zanesville Indians. New York: Facts on File Publications. ISBN 978-0816026470.
  • Benson, Michael (1989). Ballparks of North America: A Comprehensive Historical Reference to Baseball Grounds, Yards, and Stadiums, 1845 to Present. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN 0-89950-367-5.
  • Lowry, Philip J. (1992). Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of All 271 Major League and Negro League Ballparks Past and Present. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-56777-6.
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