List of baseball parks in Denver

This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Denver, Colorado, United States. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed.

Denver

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Location of Denver in the United States of America.

Broadway Grounds (I) edit

Home of edit

First recorded baseball game in Denver (about April 30, 1862) - McNeils 20, Hulls 7
Denver Brown Stockings (ca. 1878-1879)

Location edit

East 16th Avenue (north); Lincoln Street (east); East Colfax Avenue aka East 15th Avenue (south); North Broadway (west); catty-corner to the northwest of the state capitol

Currently edit

Part of the Civic Center

Larimer Street Baseball Park edit

Home of edit

Denver – Colorado League or Rocky Mountain League (1885)* Denver Mountain Lions – Western League (1886)

Location edit

Larimer Street (southeast); 32nd Street (southwest); Blake Street (northwest); 33rd Street (northeast). About 10 blocks northeast of the eventual site of Coors Field

Currently edit

Commercial/industrial

River Front Park edit

Home of edit

Denver Mountaineers – Western League / Western Association (1887–88)

Location edit

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

External links edit

Sanborn map of part of the park, 1890

Athletic Park or Broadway Park (II) edit

Home of edit

Denver Grizzlies/Mountaineers – Western Association (1889–91 or 92)
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 (1900–17)

Location edit

North Broadway (east, first base); Cherry Creek (northeast, right field corner); West 7th Avenue (north, right field); South 14th Street (now Acoma Street) (west, left field); West 6th Avenue (south, third base) - Denver Health Medical Center across Acoma to the west

Currently edit

Hotel and parking garage

External links edit

Merchants Park edit

Home of edit

Denver Bears – Western League (1922–32)
Denver Bears – Western League (1941 only)
Denver – Western League (1947 – mid-1948)

Location edit

600 South Broadway (east, first base); Virginia Avenue (south, third base); Bannock Street (west, left field); Dakota Avenue (north, right field). Near Alameda Avenue (two blocks farther north); location also given as Exposition Avenue (two blocks south) and Broadway

Current use edit

Site of Broadway Plaza shopping center and business complex

Mile High Stadium edit

Originally Bears Stadium

Home of edit

Denver Bears – Western League (mid-1948–1954)
Denver Bears/Zephyrs – American Association (1955–62) / Pacific Coast League (1963–68) / AA (1969–92)
Colorado Rockies – National League (1993–mid-1994 [season shortened by players' strike])

Location edit

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 edit

City dump

Currently edit

Parking lot for Sports Authority Field, which overlaps the old site in the southwest (center field) portion

Coors Field edit

Home of edit

Colorado Rockies – NL (1995–present)

Location edit

2001 Blake Street (southeast, first base); 20th Street (southwest, third base); railroad tracks, then Wewatta Street (northwest, left field); 22nd Street (northeast, right field)