List of baseball parks in Detroit

This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Detroit, Michigan.

Recreation Park

Home of:

Location: Brady Street (south, home plate); Beaubien Street (east, right field); Harper Hospital 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, part of Detroit Medical Center

Riverside Park

Home of: Detroit - Northwestern League (1891 - a few games in late May / early June before folding)

Location: "between Jefferson Avenue and Detroit River, across from Belle Isle" (also across from a horse race track north of Jefferson) (Okkonen). Jefferson Avenue (north, first base) [1]; 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) / American League (1900 [as 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[2]

Tiger Stadium prev. Briggs Stadium, Navin Field

Home of: Detroit Tigers - American League (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[2]

Burns Park (Detroit, Michigan)

Home of: Detroit Tigers AL American League (1900 [as minor league], 1901–1902; Sundays only)

Location: "southwest corner Toledo Avenue [now Vernor Highway] and Waterman Avenue"[3]

Currently: Industrial area near rail yards

Mack Park

Home of: Detroit Stars - 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

Home of:

Location: in Hamtramck, Michigan - A block east of Joseph Campau Street 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 is just to the northeast

Dequindre Park

Home of: Detroit Stars - Negro American League (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

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

Location: 2100 Woodward Avenue (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)

See also

References

  1. ^ Detroit Free Press, June 1, 1891, p.6
  2. ^ a b "Sneak peek inside The Corner Ballpark at the old Tiger Stadium". Curbed Detroit. Retrieved September 27, 2018.
  3. ^ Polk's 1901 Detroit City Directory

Further reading

  • Okkonen, Marc, Minor League Baseball Towns of Michigan, Dickinson Press, 1997.
  • Baseball Memories, by Marc Okkonen, Sterling Publishing, 1992.
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