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This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Chicago. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed. Dexter Park Home of: Chicago White Stockings, independent professional club (1870) Location: Halsted Street (east), between 47th Street (south) and the imaginary line of 42nd Street (north).
Baruch College plays a few games at Maimonides Park, as do a few high school teams. Following the 2015 season, a set of bleachers were removed, removing 500 seats from the ballpark. The area which housed the bleachers was turned into a picnic area. Maimonides Park hosted a qualifying round for the 2017 World Baseball Classic in September 2016. [10]
This is a list of most current US baseball stadiums. They are ordered by seating capacity , the maximum number of spectators the stadium can accommodate in baseball configuration. Venues with a capacity of at least 1,000 are included.
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The first home game for the Chicago White Stockings in the newly formed National League came on May 10, 1876, with the locals defeating Cincinnati. The final game played at this park was on Saturday, October 6, 1877. Chicago defeated Louisville 4–0 behind a shutout effort from hurler Laurie Reis.
The park was located on a small block bounded by Congress (north, left field), Loomis (west, center field), Harrison (south, right field) and Throop (east, home plate) Streets. The elongated shape of the block lent a bathtub-like shape to the park, with foul lines reportedly as short as 210 feet (64 m). The stadium held roughly 10,000 fans.
The newest stadium is Fifth Third Park in Spartanburg, South Carolina, which will be the home of the Hub City Spartanburgers beginning in 2025. One stadium was built in each of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, two in the 1950s, one in the 1980s, six in the 1990s, 14 in the 2000s, and two in each of the 2010s and 2020s.
South Side Park (III) in Chicago. The third South Side Park, the best known and longest lived venue by that name, was on the north side of 39th Street (renamed Pershing Road in 1920) between South Wentworth Avenue and South Princeton Avenue, located at . It was a few blocks west of the 1884 ballpark.