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Cardines Field is a baseball stadium located at 20 America’s Cup Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. It is believed to be one of the oldest ballparks in the United States and has been called "a small urban gem of a ballpark". [2] The field serves as a buffer between the residential and commercial sections of an older part of Newport.
Rickwood Field, located in Birmingham, Alabama, is the oldest existing professional baseball park in the United States. [7] [8] It was built for the Birmingham Barons in 1910 by industrialist and team-owner Rick Woodward and has served as the home park for the Birmingham Barons and the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro leagues.
The following is a list of ballparks previously used by professional baseball teams. In addition to the current National (NL) and American (AL) leagues, Major League Baseball recognizes four short-lived other leagues as "major" for at least some portion of their histories; three of them played only in the 19th century, while a fourth played two years in the 1910s.
1917 map of Fenway Park. Fenway Park is one of the two remaining jewel box ballparks still in use in Major League Baseball, the other being Wrigley Field; both have a significant number of obstructed view seats, due to pillars supporting the upper deck. These are sold as such, and are a reminder of the architectural limitations of older ballparks.
There are 30 stadiums in use by Major League Baseball (MLB) teams. The oldest ballpark is Fenway Park in Boston , home of the Boston Red Sox , which opened in 1912. The newest stadium is Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas , home of the Texas Rangers , which opened in 2020.
Yankee Stadium was the first three-tiered sports facility in the United States and one of the first baseball venues to be given the lasting title of stadium. [51] The word stadium deliberately evoked ancient Greece, where a stade was a unit of measure—the length of a footrace; the buildings that housed these footraces were called stadia ...
Klein Field at Sunken Diamond is a college baseball park on the west coast of the United States, located on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California. It is the home field of the Stanford Cardinal of the ACC Conference. The stadium was built 94 years ago in 1931 and has a seating capacity of 4,000. [1]
There are eight stadiums in use by California League baseball teams, all located in California. The oldest stadium is Excite Ballpark (1942) in San Jose, home of the San Jose Giants. The newest stadium is Banner Island Ballpark (2005) in Stockton, home of the Stockton Ports. Two stadiums were built in the 1940s, one in the 1950s, three in the ...