List of baseball parks in Denver
This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Denver, Colorado. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed.
Broadway Grounds (I)[]
Home of[]
- First recorded baseball game in Denver (about April 30, 1862) - McNeils 20, Hulls 7
- Denver Brown Stockings (ca. 1878-1879)
Location[]
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[]
Part of the Civic Center
Larimer Street Baseball Park[]
Home of[]
- Denver – Colorado League or Rocky Mountain League (1885)* Denver Mountain Lions – Western League (1886)
Location[]
Larimer Street (southeast); 32nd Street (southwest); Blake Street (northwest); 33rd Street (northeast). About 10 blocks northeast of the eventual site of Coors Field
Currently[]
Commercial/industrial
River Front Park[]
Home of[]
Denver Mountaineers – Western League / Western Association (1887–88)
Location[]
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
External links[]
Sanborn map of part of the park, 1890
Athletic Park or Broadway Park (II)[]
Home of[]
- 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[]
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[]
Hotel and parking garage
External links[]
Merchants Park[]
Home of[]
- Denver Bears – Western League (1922–32)
- Denver Bears – Western League (1941 only)
- Denver – Western League (1947 – mid-1948)
Location[]
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[]
Site of Broadway Plaza shopping center and business complex
Mile High Stadium[]
Originally Bears Stadium
Home of[]
- Denver Bears – Western League (mid-1948–1954)
- Denver Bears/Zephyrs – American Association (1955–62) / Pacific Coast League (1963–68) / AA (1969–92)
- Colorado Rockies – National League (1993–mid-1994 [season shortened by players' strike])
Location[]
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[]
City dump
Currently[]
Parking lot for Sports Authority Field, which overlaps the old site in the southwest (center field) portion
Coors Field[]
Home of[]
Colorado Rockies – NL (1995–present)
Location[]
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[]
Denver Pacific Railroad Station and Union Pacific Railroad buildings
See also[]
Sources[]
- Ballparks of North America, Michael Benson, McFarland, 1989.
External links[]
- Baseball venues in Colorado
- Lists of baseball stadiums in the United States
- Sports venues in Denver
- Colorado sports-related lists