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.

Larimer Street Baseball Park

Occupants

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

Occupant

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

Athletic Park

Occupants

Location

Broadway and Cherry Creek (which Broadway crosses at about East 7th Avenue). Location is near Denver Health Medical Center

Merchants Park

Occupants

Location

Virginia Avenue (south); Bannock Street (west); Dakota Avenue (north); Broadway (east). 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

Occupants

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

Occupant

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

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