This is a list of venues used for professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

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. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed. ;ballpark unknown :Home of: Toronto - Ontario League (1884) ;Jarvis Street Lacrosse Grounds :Home of: Toronto - Canadian League (1885) :Location: Jarvis and Wellesley Streets (northwest corner) on William Cawthra's property; used from 1872 to 1890 for lacrosse by the Toronto Lacrosse Club and the Toronto Baseball Club 1885; sold with homes and church built on site; now residential and commercial district called Cawthra Square ; Sunlight Park a.k.a. Toronto Baseball Grounds :Home of: ::Toronto Canucks International League/Association 1886-1890 ::Toronto Canadians/Canucks/Royals/Maple Leafs Eastern/International League (1895-1896) :Location: south-west of

Queen Street East Queen Street is a major east-west thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It extends from Roncesvalles Avenue and King Street in the west to Victoria Park Avenue in the east. Queen Street was the cartographic baseline for the original east- ...

and Broadview, south to Eastern Avenue :Later usage: Converted to industrial, now some residential ; Hanlan's Point Stadium a.k.a. Maple Leaf Park :Home of:

Toronto Maple Leafs The Toronto Maple Leafs (officially the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club and often referred to as the Leafs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Div ...

International League The International League (IL) is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in the United States. Along with the Pacific Coast League, it is one of two leagues playing at the Triple-A level, which is one grade below Major League Baseball ( ...

(1897-1900 or 1901 - sources vary) and (1908 or 1909 - sources vary - through 1925) :Location: Hanlan's Point on the

Toronto Islands The Toronto Islands are a chain of 15 small islands in Lake Ontario, south of mainland Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Comprising the only group of islands in the western part of Lake Ontario, the Toronto Islands are located just offshore from the ...

:Later usage: Converted to parkland after airport was built. ;

Diamond Park Diamond Park was a 1,500-seat baseball stadium located in Edmonton, Alberta. A covered grandstand provided 500 and bleachers down the first-base line had 1,000 more seats. Constructed by a local businessman Frank Gray, who was also Edmonton's ba ...

:Home of:

(1901–1907,1909) :Location: Liberty Street and Fraser Avenue : Later usage: E. W. Gillett Company factory complex opened on site in 1912; now occupied by Kobo Inc. ;ballpark name unknown :Home of: Toronto Beavers - Canadian League 1914 (disbanded mid-season) :Location: unknown ; Maple Leaf Stadium :Home of: Toronto Maple Leafs - IL (1926-1967) :Location: the foot of Bathurst Street on the south side of

Lake Shore Boulevard Lake Shore Boulevard (often incorrectly compounded as Lakeshore Boulevard) is a major arterial road running along more than half of the Lake Ontario waterfront in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Prior to 1998, two segments of Lake Shore ...

(formerly Fleet Street); location also given as 555 Lake Shore Boulevard West, Stadium Road, Western Channel, Bathurst Street :Later usage: Public park and picnic grounds ; Dominico Field (Christie Pits) :Home of:

-Intercounty baseball (1969-present) : Location: Bloor Street West at Christie Street ;

Exhibition Stadium Canadian National Exhibition Stadium (commonly known as Exhibition Stadium or CNE Stadium) was a multi-purpose stadium that formerly stood on the Exhibition Place grounds, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally built for Canadian National E ...

:Home of:

Toronto Blue Jays The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Since 1989, the team has played its home games ...

American League The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league b ...

(1977-1988) :Location: New Brunswick Way (right field); Lake Shore Boulevard (first base); Prince's Boulevard (left field) :Currently: site occupied by

BMO Field BMO Field is an outdoor stadium located at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which is home to Toronto FC of Major League Soccer and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. Constructed on the site of the former ...

, 170 Prince's Boulevard ;

Rogers Centre Rogers Centre (originally SkyDome) is a multi-purpose retractable roof stadium in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated at the base of the CN Tower near the northern shore of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1989 on the former Railway Lands, ...

orig. SkyDome :Home of:

- AL (1989-2019, ?-present) (no games in Toronto 2020 - mid-season 2021 due to COVID-19 travel restrictions) :Location: 1 Blue Jays Way (next to

CN Tower The CN Tower (french: Tour CN) is a concrete communications and observation tower in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976. Its name "CN" referred to Canadian National, the railway c ...

), north of Lake Shore Boulevard, east of

Spadina Avenue Spadina Avenue (, less commonly ) is one of the most prominent streets in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Running through the western section of downtown, the road has a very different character in different neighbourhoods. Spadina Avenue runs south ...

Sources

*Peter Filichia, ''Professional Baseball Franchises'', Facts on File, 1993. *Michael Benson, ''Ballparks of North America'', McFarland, 1989. {{DEFAULTSORT:Baseball Parks, Toronto Toronto

Sports venues in Toronto

Parks A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are green spaces set aside for recreation inside towns and cities. ...

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