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. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed. Bennett Park 1907 WS

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(1881–1888) ::Detroit - International League (1889–1890) / Northwestern League (1891 - one game) :Location: Brady Street (south, home plate); Beaubien Street (east, right field);

Harper Hospital Harper University Hospital is one of eight hospitals and institutes that compose the Detroit Medical Center. Harper offers services in a broad range of clinical areas, including cardiology, neurology, neurosurgery, organ transplant, plastic surge ...

and John R Street (west, left field); Brush Street T-intersecting Brady from the south (southwest, third base side); location often given as "Brady and Brush Streets." About 18 blocks north-northwest along Brady from the site of Comerica Park :Currently: Approximate ballpark site occupied by

Children's Hospital of Michigan Children's Hospital of Michigan (CHM) is a for-profit, pediatric acute care hospital located in Detroit, Michigan. The hospital has 227 beds and is affiliated with both the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Michigan State Universit ...

, part of

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;Riverside Park :Home of: Detroit - Northwestern League (1891 - a few games in late May / early June before folding) :Location: "between Jefferson Avenue and

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, across from Belle Isle" (also across from a horse race track north of Jefferson) (Okkonen). Jefferson Avenue (north, first base) (''Detroit Free Press'', June 1, 1891, p.6); adjacent to clubhouses of Michigan Yacht Club and Detroit Yacht Club. :Currently: Owen Park ;Boulevard Park aka Western League Grounds :Home of: Detroit Tigers - Western League (1894–1895) :Location: north side of Champlain Street (now East Lafayette Street - home plate) between Grand Boulevard (right field) and Helen Avenue (left field); location usually given as "Lafayette (or Champlain) and Helen" :Currently: Church of the Messiah (Episcopal), residential, vacant lot ; Bennett Park :Home of: Detroit Tigers - Western League (1896–1899) /

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(1900 s minor league 1901–1911) :Location: Trumbull Avenue (east, first base); Michigan Avenue (south, third base); Cherry Street (north, beyond right field); National Avenue (west, beyond left field). On same site as later Navin Field/Briggs Stadium/Tiger Stadium. :Currently: Willie Horton Field of Dreams at The Corner Ballpark ; Tiger Stadium prev. Briggs Stadium, Navin Field :Home of: Detroit Tigers -

(1912–1999) :Location: 2121 Trumbull Avenue (east, right field); Michigan Avenue (south, first base); Cherry Street (later Kaline Drive - north, left field); National Avenue (later Cochrane Street - west, third base). On same site as earlier Bennett Park - stands demolished and rebuilt, and home plate moved from southeast corner to southwest corner of site. :Currently: Willie Horton Field of Dreams at The Corner Ballpark ;

Burns Park (Detroit, Michigan) Burns Park was a baseball park located in Detroit, Michigan that served three seasons as the exclusive Sunday home of the Detroit Tigers baseball club in the American League from 1900 through 1902. Burns Park was built in response to blue laws, wh ...

:Home of: Detroit Tigers AL

(1900 s minor league 1901–1902; Sundays only) :Location: "southwest corner Toledo Avenue ow Vernor Highwayand Waterman Avenue" olk's 1901 Detroit City Directory:Currently: Industrial area near rail yards ;

Mack Park Mack Park was the original home field of Detroit's Negro National League baseball franchise, the Detroit Stars. It was constructed in 1914 by Joe Roesink, sponsor of a local semi-professional team, a Dutchman of Jewish descent born in Grand Rapids ...

:Home of:

Detroit Stars The Detroit Stars were an American baseball team in the Negro leagues and played at historic Mack Park. The Stars had winning seasons every year but two, but were never able to secure any championships. Among their best players was Baseball Hall of ...

- Negro National League (1920–1931) :Location: southeast corner of Mack Avenue (first base) and Fairview Street (right field); just north of Southeastern High School :Currently: Fairview Apartments ;

Hamtramck Stadium Hamtramck Stadium, also known as Roesink Stadium is (as of 2012) one of only 12 remaining Negro league baseball stadiums. It is located at 3201 Dan Street, in Veterans Park, in Hamtramck, Michigan. The stadium was listed on the National Register ...

:Home of: :: Detroit Wolves - Negro East-West League (1932 part season) ::Detroit Stars - Negro National League (1933) :Location: in

Hamtramck, Michigan Hamtramck ( ) is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 28,433. Hamtramck is surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a small portion that borders the fellow enclave city of ...

- A block east of

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near Dan Street (southwest, home plate); Berres Street (dead ends to the west); Roosevelt Street (northwest) - address given as 3201 Dan Street. :Currently: Veterans Memorial Park baseball field;

Keyworth Stadium Keyworth Stadium is a 7,933 seat multi-purpose stadium located in Hamtramck, Michigan, an enclave of Detroit. It was opened by former president Franklin Delano Roosevelt on October 15, 1936, during his second campaign for president. Keyworth ...

is just to the northeast ;Dequindre Park :Home of:

Negro American League The Negro American League was one of the several Negro leagues created during the time organized American baseball was segregated. The league was established in 1937, and disbanded after its 1962 season. Negro American League franchises :''Ann ...

(1937) :Location: Dequindre Avenue (east); Modern Street (south); Orleans Street (southwest); Riopelle Street (also southwest); south of Six Mile (McNichols) Road; roughly 2½ miles northwest of Hamtramck Stadium :Currently: Caramagno Foods Facility ;

Comerica Park Comerica Park is a baseball stadium located in Downtown Detroit. It has been the home of Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers since 2000, when the team left Tiger Stadium. History Construction Founded in 1894, the Tigers had played at the c ...

:Home of: Detroit Tigers - AL (2000–present) :Location: 2100

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(ballpark is actually one block east of Woodward); Witherell Street (west, right field); East Adams Avenue (south, center field); Brush Street (east, left field); East Montcalm Street (north, home plate)

References

*Peter Filichia, ''Professional Baseball Franchises'', Facts on File, 1993. * * *Okkonen, Marc, ''Minor League Baseball Towns of Michigan'', Dickinson Press, 1997. *''Baseball Memories'', by Marc Okkonen, Sterling Publishing, 1992. {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Baseball Parks In Detroit, Michigan

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Baseball in Detroit

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