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.
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
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)
Previously edit
Denver Pacific Railroad Station and Union Pacific Railroad buildings
See also edit
Sources edit
- Ballparks of North America, Michael Benson, McFarland, 1989.