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.
Contents
Larimer Street Baseball Park
Occupants
- 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
Occupant
Denver Mountaineers - Western League / Western Association (1887-1888)
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
- Denver Grizzlies/Mountaineers - Western Association (1889-1891 or 1892)
- 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 (1900-1917)
Location
Broadway and Cherry Creek (which Broadway crosses at about East 7th Avenue). Location is near Denver Health Medical Center
Merchants Park
Occupants
- Denver Bears - Western League (1922-1932)
- Denver Bears - Western League(1941 only)
- Denver - Western League (1947 - mid-1948)
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
- Denver Bears - Western League (mid-1948 - 1954)
- Denver Bears/Zephyrs - American Association (1955-1962) / Pacific Coast League (1963-1968) / AA (1969-1992)
- 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
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
- Ballparks of North America, Michael Benson, McFarland, 1989.
