# List of baseball parks in Detroit

This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Detroit, Michigan. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed.

## Recreation Park

    Home of:
       Detroit Wolverines - National League (1881–1888)
       Detroit - International League (1889–1890) / Northwestern League (1891 - one game)
    Location: Brady Street (south, home plate); Beaubien Street (east, right field); Harper Hospital and John R Street (west, left field); Brush Street T-intersecting Brady from the south (southwest, third base side); location often given as "Brady and Brush Streets." About 18 blocks north-northwest along Brady from the site of Comerica Park
    Currently: Approximate ballpark site occupied by Children's Hospital of Michigan, part of Detroit Medical Center

## Riverside Park

    Home of: Detroit - Northwestern League (1891 - a few games in late May / early June before folding)
    Location: "between Jefferson Avenue and Detroit River, across from Belle Isle" (also across from a horse race track north of Jefferson) (Okkonen). Jefferson Avenue (north, first base) (Detroit Free Press, June 1, 1891, p.6); adjacent to clubhouses of Michigan Yacht Club and Detroit Yacht Club.
    Currently: Owen Park

## Boulevard Park aka Western League Grounds

    Home of: Detroit Tigers - Western League (1894–1895)
    Location: north side of Champlain Street (now East Lafayette Street - home plate) between Grand Boulevard (right field) and Helen Avenue (left field); location usually given as "Lafayette (or Champlain) and Helen"
    Currently: Church of the Messiah (Episcopal), residential, vacant lot

## Bennett Park

    Home of: Detroit Tigers - Western League (1896–1899) / American League (1900 [as minor league], 1901–1911)
    Location: Trumbull Avenue (east, first base); Michigan Avenue (south, third base); Cherry Street (north, beyond right field); National Avenue (west, beyond left field). On same site as later Navin Field/Briggs Stadium/Tiger Stadium.
    Currently: Willie Horton Field of Dreams at The Corner Ballpark

## Tiger Stadium prev. Briggs Stadium, Navin Field

    Home of: Detroit Tigers - American League (1912–1999)
    Location: 2121 Trumbull Avenue (east, right field); Michigan Avenue (south, first base); Cherry Street (later Kaline Drive - north, left field); National Avenue (later Cochrane Street - west, third base). On same site as earlier Bennett Park - stands demolished and rebuilt, and home plate moved from southeast corner to southwest corner of site.
    Currently: Willie Horton Field of Dreams at The Corner Ballpark

## Burns Park (Detroit, Michigan)

    Home of: Detroit Tigers AL American League (1900 [as minor league], 1901–1902; Sundays only)
    Location: "southwest corner Toledo Avenue [now Vernor Highway] and Waterman Avenue" [Polk's 1901 Detroit City Directory]
    Currently: Industrial area near rail yards

## Mack Park

    Home of: Detroit Stars - Negro National League (1920–1931)
    Location: southeast corner of Mack Avenue (first base) and Fairview Street (right field); just north of Southeastern High School
    Currently: Fairview Apartments

## Hamtramck Stadium

    Home of:
       Detroit Wolves - Negro East-West League (1932 part season)
       Detroit Stars - Negro National League (1933)
    Location: in Hamtramck, Michigan - A block east of Joseph Campau Street near Dan Street (southwest, home plate); Berres Street (dead ends to the west); Roosevelt Street (northwest) - address given as 3201 Dan Street.
    Currently: Veterans Memorial Park baseball field; Keyworth Stadium is just to the northeast

## Dequindre Park

    Home of: Detroit Stars - Negro American League (1937)
    Location: Dequindre Avenue (east); Modern Street (south); Orleans Street (southwest); Riopelle Street (also southwest); south of Six Mile (McNichols) Road; roughly 2½ miles northwest of Hamtramck Stadium
    Currently: Caramagno Foods Facility

## Comerica Park

    Home of: Detroit Tigers - AL (2000–present)
    Location: 2100 Woodward Avenue (ballpark is actually one block east of Woodward); Witherell Street (west, right field); East Adams Avenue (south, center field); Brush Street (east, left field); East Montcalm Street (north, home plate)