List of baseball parks in Providence, Rhode Island
This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Providence, Rhode Island. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed.
Messer Park in 1879
- Adelaide Park (I)
- Occupants: National Association neutral site in 1875, for games involving New Haven, Boston, Hartford and Brooklyn
- Location: Broad, Hamilton and Sackett Streets; Adelaide and Elwood Avenues
- Currently: residential
- name of ballpark unknown
- Occupant: Providence - League Alliance (1877)
- Messer Park
- Occupant: Providence Grays National League (1878-1885) / Eastern League (1886 partial)
- Location: Messer Street (east, third base and left field), Willow Street (north, home plate); Wood Street (south, center field); Ropes (now Ellery) Street (west, first base and right field). Some sources name Hudson Street as the north boundary; others say High (now Westminster) Street, or "near" High Street. Photographic evidence indicates Willow.
- Currently: residential
- Adelaide Park (II)
- Occupants:
- Providence Grays - Eastern Association (1891 disbanded during season)
- Providence Grays / Clamdiggers - Eastern League (1892-1905?)
- Location: west of Broad Street, part of the former Park Garden, a large park bounded by what are now Broad, Sumter, Niagara and Sackett Streets. (Overlaps the first Adelaide Park block.)
- Currently: residential
- Melrose Park
- Providence Grays - Eastern League (1906?-1911) / International League (1912-1917) Eastern League (1918 - mid-1925 disbanded)
- Location: west of Melrose Avenue, near Roger Williams Park. Google Maps indicates between Thackery and Longfellow.
- Weston Field
- Occupant: Providence Grays - Eastern League (1918-?)
- Location: Cranston, Rhode Island - otherwise unknown
- Kinsley Park
- Occupants:
- Providence Grays IL (mid-1925 to end of season) moved from and to Newark Bears
- Providence Rubes / Grays - Eastern League (1926 - mid-1930 disbanded
- Location: Kinsley Avenue, Acorn Street - opposite Nicholson File Company (a tool maker)
- Currently: industrial
- Cranston Stadium
- Occupant: Providence Chiefs / Grays - New England League (1946- mid-1949 - league disbanded)
- Location: Cranston, Rhode Island - Cranston Stadium complex - Peerless Street (northwest, left and center fields); Crescent Avenue (northeast, center and right fields); Midwood Street (east, right field and first base); football stadium (southwest, home plate and third base). Flint Avenue (south) and Jordan Avenue (southwest) border the football stadium.
See also
References
- Filichia, Peter (1993). Professional baseball franchises : from the Abbeville Athletics to the Zanesville Indians. New York: Facts on File Publications. ISBN 978-0816026470.
- Benson, Michael (1989). Ballparks of North America: A Comprehensive Historical Reference to Baseball Grounds, Yards, and Stadiums, 1845 to Present. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN 0-89950-367-5.
- Lowry, Philip J. (1992). Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of All 271 Major League and Negro League Ballparks Past and Present. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-56777-6.
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