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Coordinates: 39°44′21″N 104°59′06″W / 39.7392°N 104.9850°W / 39.7392; -104.9850 (Denver)
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This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Denver, Colorado, United States. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed.

Broadway Grounds (I)

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Home of

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  • First recorded baseball game in Denver (about April 30, 1862) - McNeils 20, Hulls 7
  • Denver Brown Stockings (ca. 1878-1879)

Location

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East 16th Avenue (north); Lincoln Street (east); East Colfax Avenue aka East 15th Avenue (south); North Broadway (west); catty-corner to the northwest of the state capitol

Currently

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Part of the Civic Center

Larimer Street Baseball Park

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Home of

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  • Denver – Colorado League or Rocky Mountain League (1885)* Denver Mountain Lions – Western League (1886)

Location

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Larimer Street (southeast); 32nd Street (southwest); Blake Street (northwest); 33rd Street (northeast). About 10 blocks northeast of the eventual site of Coors Field

Currently

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Commercial/industrial

River Front Park

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Home of

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Denver Mountaineers – Western League / Western Association (1887–88)

Location

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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

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Athletic Park or Broadway Park (II)

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Home of

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  • Denver Grizzlies/Mountaineers – Western Association (1889–91 or 92)
  • 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 (1900–17)

Location

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North Broadway (east, first base); Cherry Creek (northeast, right field corner); West 7th Avenue (north, right field); South 14th Street (now Acoma Street) (west, left field); West 6th Avenue (south, third base) - Denver Health Medical Center across Acoma to the west

Currently

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Hotel and parking garage

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Merchants Park

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Home of

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Location

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600 South Broadway (east, first base); Virginia Avenue (south, third base); Bannock Street (west, left field); Dakota Avenue (north, right field). Near Alameda Avenue (two blocks farther north); location also given as Exposition Avenue (two blocks south) and Broadway

Current use

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Site of Broadway Plaza shopping center and business complex

Mile High Stadium

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Originally Bears Stadium

Home of

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Location

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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

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City dump

Currently

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Parking lot for Sports Authority Field, which overlaps the old site in the southwest (center field) portion

Coors Field

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Home of

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Colorado Rockies – NL (1995–present)

Location

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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

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Denver Pacific Railroad Station and Union Pacific Railroad buildings

See also

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Sources

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  • Ballparks of North America, Michael Benson, McFarland, 1989.
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