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List of baseball parks in Omaha, Nebraska

This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in and around Omaha, Nebraska. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed.

Omaha "ball grounds"

Home of: Omaha Mashers or Green Stockings – Northwestern League (1879 – league disbanded during season)
Location: "in Lake's addition, at the northern terminus of the street railway" – somewhere near 18th and Lake Streets – "about 18th and Ohio" [2 blocks south of Locust]
Currently: residential

Omaha Baseball Grounds

Home of:
Location: North 20th Street (east, first base); buildings and Locust Street (north, right field); buildings and North 22nd Street (west, left field); Miami Street (south, third base); Maple Street teed into the property on the left field side [per 1890 Sanborn map] – about a mile north-northwest of the site of TD Ameritrade Park
Later: Y.M.C.A. Park, then University Park [University Athletic Club]
Currently: residential

Charles Street Park

Home of: Omaha Omahogs or Indians – Western Association (1894–mid-1895)
Location: Charles Street; 17th Street (east); 18th Street (west)
Afterward: converted to bicycle race track after ball club moved to Fair Grounds
Currently: residential and commercial

Fair Grounds

Home of: Omaha Omahogs or Indians – WA (part of 1895, after leaving Charles Street – then moved to Denver)
Location: Ames Avenue between 16th Street and 20th Street
Currently: residential

Omaha Base Ball Park or Ames Avenue Park

Home of: Omaha Omahogs or Babes – WL (1898 part season – moved to St. Joseph)
Location: Ames Avenue (south, home plate); 24th Street (east); 25th Street (west) – "where the Prairie Park addition is now located"
Later: another Y.M.C.A. Park
Currently: commercial businesses

Omaha Baseball Park

Home of:
Location: 2519 South 15th Street (west, third base); Vinton Street (south, first base); buildings and Castelar Street (north, left field); buildings and South 13th Street (east, right field) [per 1901 Sanborn map] – about half a mile north of the site of Rosenblatt Stadium
Currently: residential

Ballpark at Lake Manawa

Home of: Council Bluffs Bluffers – Iowa–South Dakota League (1903 part season)
Location: near Lake Manawa, south of Council Bluffs, Iowa
Currently: Lake Manawa State Park

American Legion Park or Broadway Park

Home of:
Location: Council Bluffs, Iowa – West Broadway (north, left field); 35th Street (west, third base); buildings and 34th Street (east, right field); railroad tracks (south, first base) [per city directory]
Currently: commercial businesses

Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium orig. Omaha Baseball Park or Municipal Stadium

Home of:
Location: Deer Park Boulevard (later Grover Street, now Bob Gibson Boulevard) (north, left field); South 13th Street (west, third base); B Street (later Bert Murphy Avenue South) (south, first base); South 10th Street (east, right field); Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo (east and northeast, right and center fields, across 10th Street)
Currently: zoo parking lot; ballpark partially preserved, as "Infield at the Zoo"

Charles Schwab Field Omaha orig. TD Ameritrade Park Omaha

Home of:
Location: 1200 Mike Fahey Street (south, right field); North 13th Street (west, first base); Cuming Street (north, third base); South 10th Street (east, left field)

Werner Park

Home of:
Location: (Papillion, Nebraska) 12356 Ballpark Way (south, first base); South 126th Street (west, third base); Lincoln Road (north, left field); South 123rd Street (east, right field)

See also

References

  • Peter Filichia, Professional Baseball Franchises, Facts on File, 1993.
  • Omaha City Directories – various years – via Ancestry.com

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